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Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20061122-090145-4781r.htm
A Town Under Siege
[Washington Times] Joel Mowbray - All but seven members of the UN General Assembly recently voted to condemn Israel for its military incursion into Gaza. The buzzword is "overreaction." To what is Israel "overreacting"? Hamas is indiscriminately launching rockets into civilian areas, hoping to kill as many innocents as possible. For more than five years, the residents of Sderot, a small development town of 26,000 in the Negev desert near the Gaza border, have been subjected to a constant barrage of Kassam rockets fired by Hamas, or the democratically elected government of the Palestinians. More than 3,000 rockets have hit Sderot and the roughly 45 smaller communities in the area. Hamas has no plans to stop voluntarily, and the international outrage machine won't ask it to. The Islamic terrorists are merely fulfilling a promise made this June: "We have decided to turn Sderot into a ghost town. We won't stop firing the rockets until they all leave."