Michael Totten has another of his fabulous articles up. This one is about a trip to Southern Israel near the Gaza Strip. There, the almost forgotten war continues.
“All the journalists forgot about us during the Lebanon war. So the terrorists are waiting for the media to come back before firing rockets again. They don’t want to waste those they have.”
“That can’t be the only reason,” I said. “The IDF has been active in Gaza this entire time. Surely that has something to do with it.”
“Yes,” he said. “Also because of the IDF.”
Later two more Israelis repeated what Shika said about Hamas and Islamic Jihad cooling their rocket launchers while the media’s attention was elsewhere. I haven’t heard any official confirmation from either side that it’s true.
“How long do people here have from the time they hear an air raid siren until the rockets land?” I said.
“About 20 seconds,” he said.
The lack of journalists covering the Gaza operations is one of the reasons that the freed Fox News people were encouraged to make statements about needing to cover that area, I suspect. Read all of Totten's article for a matter of fact look at what it's like living under the threat of daily rocket attacks.
