Posted on 03/05/2009 11:16:59 AM PST by SJackson
Three Israelis say the fear of attacks from nearby Gaza is just as great as it was before the recent conflict. Israel's three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip was aimed at significantly reducing Palestinian rocket fire into southern Israel.
ATARA ORENBUCH, mother of six children, Sderot
Today we had two Qassams. Every time there's a red alert, you drop everything and run to shelter. You lose a heartbeat each time.
I know my children are safe in school, but it's the journey there and back I worry about. The terrorists love that time between 0730 and 0800.
Every morning, we get into the car and we don't know how it will end. I've felt like that for eight years.
All these little things we think are normal, but they're not. Like someone else listening out for you when you're in the shower, because you can't hear the siren in the shower.
I reconsider five times before taking the children to a playground.
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They can thank their kin in the USA for helping elect Hussein.
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Move the border in response to every attack that makes it across the border. Seize, clear, and annex land in reprisal and do it every time.
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