One more thing, I don't get. What would the Brits or the Europeans do if it was their civilian population which was being bombarded with missiles for eight years. To the average Brit, Frenchman, Spaniard, Sderot, Ashkelon or Ashdod mean very little or nothing at all. Qassams, Grads, also have little meaning. Ask the people of Ashdod or Beer Sheva. Over the past week these towns have found themselves targeted by Hamas missiles, running for cover every time the red alert sounds, with only a matter of seconds to find safety. It's no game. There are the dead and wounded to prove it. Yet they live only minutes from Sderot which has had to put up with this kind of threat for years. Despite their close proximity and their awareness of the problems in Sderot, the people of Ashdod and Beer Sheva cannot understand how the people of Sderot have been able to live under such pressure for such a long time. They are now being bombed and are experiencing it for themselves, and yet they cannot fathom how residents of a small working class town in southern Israel have been able to live with the constant threat of missiles for eight years. They have had it for eight days and its driving them mad with fear and anxiety. Well if their neighbours and fellow countrymen cannot understand it, how the hell can the average Brit or Frenchman or German be expected to comprehend what these people are suffering and what they have suffered for so long.
Well let me put it in terms you may understand.
Remember the terrible events of 7/7 in London, a day of infamy when four suicide bombers murdered fifty one people in one day. I believe it is fair to say that these four explosions in one day had a huge impact on life in the UK. Think back to the reaction around the country to those four explosions on that one day in London. Now, I know it is difficult, but try and imagine what would have happened if their had been forty explosions on that one day, perhaps not in the capital, perhaps in Hull, or Inverness, or Brighton, maybe Southport, any small town throughout the UK? What would the reaction have been? What kind of panic? Scary thought isn't it.
Now if you will, try and imagine four hundred explosions over a month. I'll tell you what, they are only small explosions, the size of a grenade. Imaging four hundred grenades thrown at random into a small town in the UK over a month. Don't worry only a few dead and a few more injured. What would happen? What would the reaction be? What would you do? What would you want your government to do? I accept, its a really big ask. It is almost impossible to imagine. It is actually too horrible to imagine the kind of panic that would ensue with men, women and children scared to set foot outside their front door. In fact people end up living in their basements, because even their houses are not safe. The explosions are destroying their homes killing ior ijuring those inside. The pressure is horrendous.
Well as if that was not bad enough........... now try to imagine four thousand such explosions happening in small towns in the UK, or France, or Spain, not four or forty or four hundred......four thousand and that is only half of the number of missiles that have been fired at southern Israel. What would happen then? What would the British public or the French public, the Spanish public or any other country's public expect of their governments if explosions where raining down on their country in their thousands. Dam expectations! Let's face it, the public would demand that the government put an end to it an they would demand that they do it immediately. No self respecting government would let things get that far. It would have to act to defend its citizens.
Welcome to life in Southern Israel!
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