Scenes from Sderot (A Continuing Series)

 Scenes from Sderot (A Continuing Series)

Sderot_barak_121707 Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, right, looks on during his visit of a house destroyed by a Kassam rocket last week, in the southern Israeli town of Sderot, Monday, Dec. 17, 2007.  (AP Photo/Edi Israel/pool).

Sderot_121307 Rescue workers stand in a destroyed house in the town of Sderot, southern Israel, after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007. . . . seriously injuring a 40-year-old woman . . . (AP Photo/Limor Edrey)

Sderot_121207c Israelis wait in a shelter during a rocket alert in the southern Israeli town of Sderot near the Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007. Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired more than a dozen homemade rockets at the Israeli border town Wednesday, Israeli army sources said. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Sderot_121307c Israelis react on the scene after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza, landed in the southern town of Sderot December 13, 2007. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL)

A remarkable two-minute video of children under Kassam attack in Sderot (hat tip:  Richard Baehr):

Sarah N. Stern, president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth, in an article in The Jewish Press adapted from a recent speech to Congressional staffers:

Is there any empirical evidence to suggest that relinquishing land might buy Israel some form of peace?

Here we are, two and a half years after the immeasurably painful disengagement from Gaza, and what has been the result of that noble sacrifice for peace?

Hardly a day – hardly an eighth of a day to be precise – goes by without Israelis in the town of Sderot being terrorized by the constant barrage of Kassam missiles.

Earlier Scenes from Sderot are here.

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