WE ARE AFRAID', CHILD'S MESSAGE TO OLMERT

Out of the mouths of babes. A 12 year old girl from Sderot calls on Olmert to protect her and the other children from the constant rain of Qassam rockets. If only ol' Ehud could put aside his maniacal campaign to destroy Israel.

FROM ANSAMED:

WE ARE AFRAID', CHILD'S MESSAGE TO OLMERT

(ANSAmed) - TEL AVIV, DECEMBER 10 - "Mister Prime Minister, I want to tell you that the Qassam rockets make a frightful noise, my legs shake when I hear them, and my heart beats quickly... Mister Prime Minister, help us. Everything is difficult for us here. We want to live like the other children of Israel": this was the message delivered yesterday to Ehud Olmert by Orel Levi, a little girl who goes to the fourth grade in an elementary school in Sderot (Neghev), the city most hit by Palestinian rockets in recent years. Olmert, in the city for an inspection, was very touched. Today, he called for a meeting in Jerusalem to examine the situation of the borders with the Gaza Strip. "I also told Olmert that life here wasn't fit for children" added the twelve year old Oren Elias from Sderot. "For the last eight years we have been bombarded. What can we do about it, forced to run from one safety zone to the next or the constant search for a 'betonada' (a protective cement block)?". "Olmert has not given us concrete responses, in general he has promised that he will increase the city's defences. But his visit - added Oren - was useful in any case. I think that he will do something now, because he has seen with his own eyes that the children living here are afraid of the Qassam rockets". "For example, I don't think it is right that my little sister, who is just five years old, should have to think about this kind of thing. A little girl - Oren continues - should live her childhood, not think all the time about rockets". "Olmert and the other leaders to come after him - foresees Oren - will have to do what is possible to put an end to the rockets. I really hope so. In the meantime, when I'm really scared, my parents hold me close, then I feel stronger". (ANSAmed).