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Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-perspec1122mayornov22,0,3270199.story
Taking the Edge Off War
(Chicago Tribune) Hugh Dellios - The new indoor playground for children in Sderot, less than a mile from the border with Gaza, offers unique attributes beyond its horizontal climbing wall, mini-soccer field and convertible disco/movie theater. It also offers six bomb shelters and rocket-proof, anti-shockwave walls. The mayor says Sderot is a quieter place since the Gaza operation eleven months ago, and is targeted by only one or two rockets a month. Mayor David Bouskila, in the U.S. to meet donors who paid for the heavily fortified recreation center which opened in June, shared his front-row view of life with rockets. "The building of the recreation center is something that gives our children for the first time the opportunity to play without fear." "For eight years we (wanted) the army to go into Gaza. No country can let its citizens suffer for eight years. When (UN special investigator Richard) Goldstone put out his report, I asked him where he was over the last eight years. Where was the UN when children died in Sderot?"