Comments on: Israel: Rockets Hit Sderot, Flame the Israeli Blogosphere http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:13:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dan http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/comment-page-2/#comment-1491264 Dan Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:48:38 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/#comment-1491264 Israel has a policy of establishing front-line, development towns where brave, courageous Israeli colonists can confront the 'Arab Peril'. Sderot is one such. It was set up as a front-line town, and it gets attacked, as it was planned to be. That's why Sderot's population is half recent Russian immigrant, and half Sephardi (Moroccan and Persian Jews). Not a brave Ashkenazi or Sabra in sight. The Gaza Strip (not worth calling it anything more than a strip) is nothing more now than a refugee concentration camp where about half the Palestinians expelled from 'Israel' in 1948 ended up, in places like Jabalyah, Khan Yunis and Rafah refugee camps. There are 1.5 million people confined to 300sq km. They are not allowed to leave Gaza, even for emergency medical care, or if they do, to return. At least two generations of refugee peasant farmers, kicked off their land, have ended up in Gaza, with nothing much to do, no education, no jobs, and damned little hope. But Sderot is useful as a subject for schmaltzy Israeli propaganda. How would you feel if a bunch of Russian immigrants were dumped in a brand-new town just a mile across an uncrossable border within your own homeland, and given huge subsidies as 'Jewish' immigrants, while you were left to rot in a prison? But the score is pretty even - 16 victims in Sderot, over 6 years, versus 19 in Beit Hanoun, with just one shell, beside the 140 Palestinians killed in Beit Hanoun over those same 6 years. An eye for an eye? Now the Israelis are besieging the entire 1.5 million population of the Gaza Strip, with the compliance of the EU, Britain, the US (all the usual suspects). http://levantnotes.blogspot.com/2007/10/sderot-sacrifice-few-immigrants-for.html Israel has a policy of establishing front-line, development towns where brave, courageous Israeli colonists can confront the ‘Arab Peril’. Sderot is one such. It was set up as a front-line town, and it gets attacked, as it was planned to be. That’s why Sderot’s population is half recent Russian immigrant, and half Sephardi (Moroccan and Persian Jews). Not a brave Ashkenazi or Sabra in sight.

The Gaza Strip (not worth calling it anything more than a strip) is nothing more now than a refugee concentration camp where about half the Palestinians expelled from ‘Israel’ in 1948 ended up, in places like Jabalyah, Khan Yunis and Rafah refugee camps. There are 1.5 million people confined to 300sq km.

They are not allowed to leave Gaza, even for emergency medical care, or if they do, to return.

At least two generations of refugee peasant farmers, kicked off their land, have ended up in Gaza, with nothing much to do, no education, no jobs, and damned little hope.

But Sderot is useful as a subject for schmaltzy Israeli propaganda.

How would you feel if a bunch of Russian immigrants were dumped in a brand-new town just a mile across an uncrossable border within your own homeland, and given huge subsidies as ‘Jewish’ immigrants, while you were left to rot in a prison?

But the score is pretty even – 16 victims in Sderot, over 6 years, versus 19 in Beit Hanoun, with just one shell, beside the 140 Palestinians killed in Beit Hanoun over those same 6 years.

An eye for an eye? Now the Israelis are besieging the entire 1.5 million population of the Gaza Strip, with the compliance of the EU, Britain, the US (all the usual suspects).

http://levantnotes.blogspot.com/2007/10/sderot-sacrifice-few-immigrants-for.html

]]> By: Global Voices Online » Israel: Broken Truce Angers Israelis http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/comment-page-2/#comment-1478663 Global Voices Online » Israel: Broken Truce Angers Israelis Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:35:27 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/#comment-1478663 [...] Rockets Hit Sderot: Flame the Israeli Blogosphere (December 2007) [...] [...] Rockets Hit Sderot: Flame the Israeli Blogosphere (December 2007) [...]

]]> By: Global Voices Online » Israel: Cyber-Activists Promote Sderot http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-1477927 Global Voices Online » Israel: Cyber-Activists Promote Sderot Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:24:40 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/#comment-1477927 [...] Rockets Hit Sderot, Flame the Israeli Blogosphere [...] [...] Rockets Hit Sderot, Flame the Israeli Blogosphere [...]

]]> By: Periodismo Ciudadano http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-1452685 Periodismo Ciudadano Mon, 12 May 2008 21:33:59 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/#comment-1452685 [...] frontera de Gaza con Israel fue cerrada en respuesta a un especialmente alto número de cohetes lanzados la pasada semana. El January Qassam Calendar de Elder de Ziyon contó un total de 138 cohetes [...] [...] frontera de Gaza con Israel fue cerrada en respuesta a un especialmente alto número de cohetes lanzados la pasada semana. El January Qassam Calendar de Elder de Ziyon contó un total de 138 cohetes [...]

]]> By: Global Voices Online » Israel: Bloggers Mourn Terrorism at Religious School http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-1405441 Global Voices Online » Israel: Bloggers Mourn Terrorism at Religious School Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:49:08 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/#comment-1405441 [...] authors of Life Must Go On in Gaza and Sderot are Hope Man and Peace Man, one of whom lives in Sderot, the other in Gaza. Hope Man questions the point of the violence: Retaliation or Terrorism? [...] [...] authors of Life Must Go On in Gaza and Sderot are Hope Man and Peace Man, one of whom lives in Sderot, the other in Gaza. Hope Man questions the point of the violence: Retaliation or Terrorism? [...]

]]> By: Maya Norton http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-1377155 Maya Norton Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:05:37 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/#comment-1377155 Dear Readers, The United Jewish Communities, the largest Jewish organization in the world, has just started a blog that gives voice to residents of Sderot including on impressive entry by a 14 year old (talk about a great effort at citizen journalism). <a href="http://www.ujc.org/blog.html?id=95" rel="nofollow">Click here to read the blog.</a> Maya Dear Readers,

The United Jewish Communities, the largest Jewish organization in the world, has just started a blog that gives voice to residents of Sderot including on impressive entry by a 14 year old (talk about a great effort at citizen journalism).

Click here to read the blog.

Maya

]]> By: Maya Norton http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-1377146 Maya Norton Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:50:30 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/#comment-1377146 Dear Sir Rabbit, I'm flattered, as long as you credit my authorship with Global Voices Online as your source. (I'm sure you did, it's just that I didn't actually see it on your page.) Thank you for your kind words, Maya Dear Sir Rabbit,

I’m flattered, as long as you credit my authorship with Global Voices Online as your source. (I’m sure you did, it’s just that I didn’t actually see it on your page.)

Thank you for your kind words,

Maya

]]> By: Rabbit http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-1370133 Rabbit Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:30:17 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/#comment-1370133 Dear Lady, I have essentially stolen your article and reposted it on my blog at MySpace/arabbit123. I found it so inspiring that I felt justified in this theft and truly hope that you do not mind. Thank you, Rabbit Dear Lady,
I have essentially stolen your article and reposted it on my blog at MySpace/arabbit123.
I found it so inspiring that I felt justified in this theft and truly hope that you do not mind.
Thank you,
Rabbit

]]> By: Global Voices Online » Israel: Israeli Bloggers Respond to Crisis in Palestine http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-1369342 Global Voices Online » Israel: Israeli Bloggers Respond to Crisis in Palestine Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:44:00 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/#comment-1369342 [...] the last seven years, over 6,300 rockets have been fired by Gazan militants on Israel's civilian [...] [...] the last seven years, over 6,300 rockets have been fired by Gazan militants on Israel's civilian [...]

]]> By: Maya Norton http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-1238742 Maya Norton Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:53:48 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/#comment-1238742 I want to add to your resource arsenal on understanding this issue. Here is a new blog from the Jerusalem Post out of Sderot called "Living with Rockets." Link: http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/fendel/ I want to add to your resource arsenal on understanding this issue. Here is a new blog from the Jerusalem Post out of Sderot called “Living with Rockets.”

Link: http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/fendel/

]]> By: Maya Norton http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-1215330 Maya Norton Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:13:37 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/#comment-1215330 An update: In consultation with Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak, Eli Moyal has agreed to resume his position as mayor of Sderot. I heard this report on the radio, so don't have a link for you yet, but I will post here as soon as I have a good one. Apparently Barak has promised that he will do what he can to protect Sderot. We'll see what that actually means in the coming days. An update:

In consultation with Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak, Eli Moyal has agreed to resume his position as mayor of Sderot.

I heard this report on the radio, so don’t have a link for you yet, but I will post here as soon as I have a good one.

Apparently Barak has promised that he will do what he can to protect Sderot. We’ll see what that actually means in the coming days.

]]> By: Writing for Global Voices Online: New Position « The New Jew: Blogging Jewish Philanthropy http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-1215309 Writing for Global Voices Online: New Position « The New Jew: Blogging Jewish Philanthropy Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:14:06 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/12/13/israel-rockets-hit-sderot-flame-the-israeli-blogosphere/#comment-1215309 [...] Here is an excerpt from my first piece, “Rockets Hit Sderot, Flame the Israeli Blogosphere”– [...] [...] Here is an excerpt from my first piece, “Rockets Hit Sderot, Flame the Israeli Blogosphere”– [...]

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