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May 21, 2007
It was bound to happen
With all those rockets raining down every day on homes and schools and shops, it was a miracle that no one had yet been killed. Just this past week, 130 rockets were fired in Sderot, and today, we ran out of miracles:
Qassam hits car near southern town's commercial center, killing Shirel Feldman, 32, and moderately wounding another man. Residents clash with police in response to attack. About 17 rockets fired from Gaza Strip since Monday morning
Residents are rioting in the streets, who can blame them? The Israeli government has turned a blind eye to the daily attacks on its people.
Today, I cannot help but remember two years ago, the day before the expulsion from Gaza, when I sat with Dr. Yitschak Ben Gad, the Consul General of Israel to Florida and Puerto Rico as he defended Sharon and the "disengagement."
On that day, we came to the Consulate seeking help for our people. The Consul General talked to us, smiled at us, shook our hands, took pictures with us, and he lied to us. I asked him, what will the government do when the rockets start and he said... we will bombard them.
And only two months ago, I again stood together with Dr. Ben Gad, and he turned to me with anger because of what was said two years ago, in that room, on that day.
Now, at the end of your term as Consulate, Dr. Ben Gad, you said to me, "The disengagement was a disaster," as if I didn't know and as if you only just found out. I was able to shoulder your anger Dr. Ben Gad, because I knew that your anger was misdirected away from yourself and projected on me, and merely the result of your shame. And you should be shamed, Dr. Ben Gad, for not standing against what you knew was wrong and for saying what you knew was not true. The consequences are that you have blood on your hands, the same blood as Olmert, and Perez. This woman is dead and so many are injured because you turned your back on what you knew was right, your turned your back on the State of Israel and you turned your back on your people. You did it for polical reasons, to keep your Consulate another two years, may Hashem forgive you.
And may Hashem forgive me for directing my anger at you.
Even as I write this, the rockets continue to fall.
My heart hurts.
Posted by LindaSoG at May 21, 2007 08:47 PM
Comments
when they can't keep denying it any longer then suddenly they all discover that disengagement was wrong
doesn't mean they won't support it again in a new york minute
at this point becoming a consul requires all the morality of a borneo ape and good political connections
Posted by: sultan knish at May 21, 2007 10:29 PM
Yes. Yes. and Yes.
Posted by: LindaSoG at May 21, 2007 10:42 PM
I'll give this Sultan Knish credit for one thing: He could give Bill O'Reilly a serious lesson on the meaning of "pithy."
Good on yer!
Posted by: Kevin M at May 23, 2007 08:14 PM