It was Succot business as usual here around most of the country but there were thousands and thousands of Jews who passed yesterday in bomb shelters when homicidal maniacs in Gaza of the Philistines launched some 60 missiles and mortars into their communities. No one Israelite was physically harmed but who knows the psychological damage? After almost a dozen years of this terror, the medical and psychological information is there to draw the conclusion that thousands and thousands of Jews and especially little Jewish children have been traumatized and terrorized by these thousands and thousands of lethal projectiles the Israelis have never figured out how to stop.

Thousands and thousands of Jews here yesterday squeezed themselves into safe rooms for hours; not much of a zman simkhateinu for them…