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The Sheriff of Sderot

[Jerusalem Post] Rebecca Anna Stoil - Uri Bar-Lev, the commander of the Israel Police's Southern District, has temporarily relocated the district headquarters to Sderot and is cruising around town when the emergency siren sounds. He notices a young woman who has stopped her car and is paralyzed with fear, unable to turn off the engine or leave the vehicle. As the first rocket falls in the distance, Bar-Lev coaxes the woman, a Sderot resident who has witnessed one too many barrages in recent days, to leave the vehicle and take cover. A second later, a rocket shrieks overhead, plunging into a nearby house. Arriving first on the scene where the Palestinian rocket has barreled through the house's wall, Bar-Lev crouches down next to the house's owner, who is holding his ears and rocking back and forth in shock. Bar-Lev muses: "Against terror, the deciding factor is not the army....The deciding factor is the fortitude of the people. Not just to stay because of economic motives, but also on an ideological level. The most important answer to terror is that statement: 'Nobody is going to force me out of here. Another 1,000 rockets might fall, but I will stay here because it is my home.'"
2007-05-29 01:00:00
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