Some Balance, Does The Foreign Media Give a Voice to Israelis Under Attack?

The East Village on Monday night
Photo Credit: Uragaaru

Last night, I heard/watched some Israeli television news.  It featured a series of interviews with yordim, expatriate Israelis living in New York and suffering from the hurricane Sandy.  Granted that the situation on America's east coast is rather rare, though extended periods without electricity seem to be an annual event for some, I began to wonder if the American, or any other non-Israeli, non-Jewish news media has been giving much play, time, to the more frequent suffering of ordinary Israelis, some their own countrymen, in the Israeli south.

I have friends living under Arab terror fire in Israel's south, and I'm in a couple of facebook groups which get reports.  One of the reasons I blog is to run and edit my own "magazine."  So as the boss here I'm posting about it.  I'll start with a short, clever little movie about an ordinary day for Israelis who are being attacked by the Gazan Arab terrorists:



There are people, too many, who think that my home in Shiloh is in a dangerous location, but we, bli eyin haraa, not to tempt the evil eye, don't suffer from Arab terrorist launched missiles.

This is from a very good article in The Jewish Tribune.

According to the Israeli military, Palestinian terrorists in Gaza

have fired more than 550 projectiles at southern Israel since

the beginning of 2012, and upwards of 45 this month alone

Tamar Yonah broadcast an excellent piece on Arutz Sheva in which  residents under fire were interviewed.  She also posted a letter from a young mother who tells us what is really going on.

THEY'RE SHOOTING AT MY KIDS!!!
THEY'RE SHOOTING AT MY KIDS!!!
MR. PRIME MINISTER, WHY ARE YOU NOT PROTECTING THEM???
WHY ARE YOU NOT PUTTING A STOP TO THE TERRORIST ATTACKS ON THIS COUNTRY???
INSTEAD OF ELIMINATING THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL, YOU TRY TO PACIFY YOUR OWN CITIZENS WITH BAND-AID SOLUTIONS.
YOU CAME DOWN SOUTH AND MADE YOUR APPEARANCE AND THEN PROMISED SOUTHERN CITIZENS FUNDING TO ADD ON SAFE-ROOMS.
BUT THAT WILL NOT STOP THE ATTACKS FROM CONTINUING.
BAND-AID.... (click for more)

Here's a quotation from antoher Israeli:

It's 3:15AM..the zeva adom alarm sounds..I am up in half a second running to my kids(whom have also learnt to dash from their sleep)...As I wrap my arms around my daughter while rushing to the shelter,my hand comes to rest over her heart..then BOOM!!! The missile lands somewhere nearby..her heart's beating soooo fast! It hurts me to thinks what shes going through and what affect this is having and will have on her in the future.... Then I realise my heart's racing too!!! Ahhh,but I'm big! ! Can handle this!! No????

This is all so terrible!
Another reports:

Alarm Darom last night
Sdot negev 18:02:28

and then...

We have had jets, helicopters and booming on and off all day...

This poster says it all:

What is going on with our Israeli Government? 

The politicians care more about getting elected, not that they govern all that effectively.  The news editors are more sympathetic to what's going on in New York than what's happening in our south.  This must change!!!