Source: Ynnetnews
Nov 21, 2006
It took a personal close encounter with a Kassam rocket fired on Isralei civilians to get it out of her, but the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Tuesday expressed a sentiment rarely if ever voiced by a UN official:
Israel has the right to defend its citizens against "Palestinian" rocket attacks, Louise Arbour said, after a Kassam slammed into the ground not 200 meters away while she was paying a visit to the besieged Negev town of Sderot.
According to her spokesman, the visit had been "traumatic" for Arbour, was also distressed by the sight of Jewish children forced to position themselves near a wall inside their daycare center in a self-defensive posture following another Kassam attack alert.
"It was quite a striking scene seeing all these children lined up against the wall, not the kind of thing any human being wants to go through," said Jose Diaz.
Typically, however, instead of condemning the Palestinian Authority that encourages and even participates in the missile strikes, Arbour made yet another vague, diplomatic statement about how the Kassams stressed the need for peace between the Israelis and the Arabs.