Is It Still Israel's Fault?

A 21,000-square-foot bunker of a recreation center was inaugurated this week in Sderot with a small indoor soccer field, video games, fun-house mirrors, a climbing wall, rooms for birthday celebrations and $1.5 million worth of reinforced steel.
Not all of the roof is rocket-proof but it has many reinforced areas that double as functional spaces.

Ronald S. Lauder who attended the park’s inauguration, told the New York Times "that he was struck by the historical parallels that Purim invoked. The holiday, recounted in the biblical Book of Esther, celebrates the deliverance of the Jews from a Persian king who, it is said, had planned to kill them on the advice of his adviser, Haman. Today, too, Mr. Lauder contended, Persia’s heirs in Iran harbor ill intent toward Israel’s people, as manifested by their arming of Hamas and Hezbollah and by their fiery anti-Israel language.

“Isn’t it amazing how history repeats itself?” he said."

The new recreation center also has two rooms set aside for counseling and a staff of mental health workers.

Ethan Bronner noted that "emotional trauma among the young is an area of great focus not only in Israel, but also in Gaza."

So, he interviewed Ann M. Veneman, the executive director of Unicef, and she was deeply concerned about the recent war’s effect on children on both sides of the border.

“The children are the innocent victims with the nightmares,” she said in a telephone interview. “I visited Sderot, and I am happy to see how many psychologists they have there. In Gaza, that is not the case. With 56 percent of the population under the age of 18 and so many schools severely damaged, there is an incredible amount of work to be done there.”

Okay, so who is going to do that work?

Isn't amazing that somehow the New York Times 'innocently' implicates, even subliminally, Israel as somehow connected to the lack of psychological help for Gazans?


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