By Gum
This one has a kind of open, honest, hardscrabble New England, Norman Rockwell town meeting quality to it. Only with Israelis. And rockets. Jerusalem Post:
Ashkelon resident Moshe Nissimpor decided that the best way to halt rocket fire from Gaza - in light of what he terms the government’s failure to do so - is some vigilante justice.
Nissimpor developed a homemade 200-millimeter ballistic missile which he planned to launch from Ashkelon into the Gaza Strip.
“From this day onwards, we will push back to the stone age every place which dares shoot missiles into Israel’s sovereign territory,” he said Wednesday. “It is time the world understood Israelis’ lives are not expendable.”
“I’m afraid this is the only language the Palestinians understand, and this is the language in which we’ll speak to them. I have many Gazan Palestinian friends who live as Hamas hostages. Once we bring an end to the rocket fire, Gaza’s residents will also live in peace,” he said.
Nissimpor arrived at the Ashkelon Municipality building with the missile painted black and lettered “to Hamas, from the residents of Ashkelon” in red, and was planning to launch it.
Ashkelon residents gathered round to cheer him on and protest the government’s conduct, but at the eleventh hour, police stopped him from firing the missile and seized it.
“I wish there were more ‘crazies’ like me in Israel,” Nissimpor said as the crowd was dispersed by the police.
OK, they don’t want him engaging in random acts of foreign policy. He made his point. Maybe he’s the town lunatic, maybe he’s a guy who’s just had it up to here. Notice no mention of him being arrested? What a great country.
Talk about Norman Rockwell, citizenship, straightforward images and simple poetry. Here’s Gordon Alanko, Acute Politics. He’ll take you away.
It doesn’t get a lot more Rockwellian than this. Connecticut Valley Tobacco.
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Topics: Israel, Norman Rockwell, rockets
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:06 pm on Wednesday, March 5, 2008
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March 5th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
“From this day onwards, we will push back to the stone age every place which dares shoot missiles into Israel’s sovereign territory,” he said Wednesday. “It is time the world understood Israelis’ lives are not expendable.” Ditto for the United States - time to push back the stone age.
March 6th, 2008 at 1:53 am
It might be made easier if the U.S. hadn’t done their bit to keep Israel from defending itself. I had great hopes post 9-11 that, finally, America would truly understand what the Israelis have had to endure and truly partner with them to wipe out the scourge. Didn’t happen, and so, the stone age remains a drain on us all.
March 6th, 2008 at 10:00 am
[...] at least, a resident of the Israeli city of Ashkelon has decided to do fight against Hamas himself. He developed a missile and wanted to fire it at his Palestinian enemies. At the very last moment, however, the police intervened: they seized the missile and told the [...]