The major news media are not picking up on this, but Brian of London has. The latest rocket barrage in Haifa has caused the collapse of an apartment building in an Arab Israeli neighborhood.
Watch for the expressions of “martyrdom” from Chipmunk Cheeks and his minions of death. Watch the media pick up on it once they realize that it isn’t another bunch of dead Jews.
JERUSALEM (AP) – A barrage of Hezbollah rockets struck Haifa on Sunday, killing at least one person and wounding more than 30, officials and media reported, in the heaviest attack on the port city since fighting with the Lebanese-based militia began nearly four weeks ago.
A spokesman for the Haifa fire department, Chezi Levi, said one crowded residential district suffered five or six hits, and there were many casualties.
At least one house collapsed, apparently trapping people inside, Channel 2 television reported. Two or three residential areas also were reported to have been targeted.
One of the rockets hit an apartment building. Following the hit, the building collapsed and several people were apparently trapped under the rubble. Large rescue forces were dispatched to the area in order to attend to the injured. In addition, several houses caught fire, some of them after being directly hit by rockets.
Shaul from Haifa told Ynet: “At around 7:50 p.m. there was a siren. I work on the 17th floor, I entered the fortified room, and after a minute there were suddenly four great ‘booms,’ the entire building trembled. I also spoke to a friend working in the area, and there the building also shook. At least a minute passed between the siren and the landing, so we had enough time to reach the fortified room.”
The rocket barrages will fall silent now. Hezbullah doesn’t fire during the night. Because the IDF and IAF can pinpoint them more easily and take out their launchers. Contrary to what you read, Hezbullah isn’t a brave, daring, courageous military fighting the IDF to a standstill. They’re still running like the cowards they are, using anti-tank missiles against people instead of facing the IDF in combat—and lobbing rockets at civilians.
Haifa is such an integrated city. A liberal’s dream come true. Arab and Israeli live and work, together, here.
I just wonder what happens next?
Why? Because most Israeli arabs are happy enough being Israeli. They feel safer than if they lived among the palestinians. Or in Jordan. Or Eygpt. But they’re an odd lot. There’s still the separation that occurs when they go to their mosques. And, they get haranged by their mullets.
When my mom was an American immigrant child, Jews and Italians also lived closed and intermingled. Not just on the Lower East Side, but in Coney Island, too. The Italians were the BEST customers. Many just hid what they heard at church. And, to this day, I don’t know how this kind of split personality develops, but it does.
Sorry for the long post. But this comparison jumped out at me. Sorry,too, for the loss of life among Arabs, who are getting hit from their own kind. While the people doing it are just savages. Hope the Israeli Arabs can stay focussed on their benefits. Not these trials.
I blogged this article earlier, which quoted an Israeli Arab resident of Haifa as saying: “I hope Nasrallah gets a rocket between the legs for what he is doing to me here, for harming grandma and grandpa.”
But that’s only half the story, of course. The same man was equally angry at Israel for what he perceived as inadequate bomb shelters and warnings for Arab Israelis as compared to what was available in Jewish neighbourhoods. And while it’s tempting to write that off as the chatter of a man angry and worried about injured relatives, it’s part of a larger story and it would be wrong to sweep that under the rug, too.
Still, at least someone is blaming the guy lobbing the rockets for, you know, lobbing the rockets.