Nowhere to run

Uriel Heilman writes in the New York Post.

… northern Israel has become a ghost town.

An estimated million Israelis—a sixth of the nation—have abandoned the country’s north, fleeing for the relative safety of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the southern resort city of Eilat.

But as Hezbollah’s rockets hit deeper and deeper into Israel’s heartland, approaching the suburbs of Tel Aviv, Israelis are running out of places to go. In a country roughly the size of New Jersey, there’s not much room for safe haven.

Read the rest here.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at August 08, 2006 12:17 AM | Send