I met Lea Malul tonight in Portland, Oregon. Lea is the Public Affairs Director at Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, Israel. The story she tells is really not a story at all, it is life, her life and that of many, many, others!

If you were given 15 seconds to find a place to hide from a Qassam rocket that was coming from less then 2 or 3 miles away, what would you do? What would you do if you were pregnant or taking a shower of using the toilet? How would you get to safety? What if you were sleeping or cooking or having an intimate moment with your spouse and the siren blared that your 15 seconds had just begun?

What if you were trying to push life back into your child after a rocket exploded sending metal fragments into your son or daughter's skull. Sirens intermittently blaring, warning of several more rockets in the air! FIFTEEN SECONDS
instantly, you realize that theirs FIFTEEN SECONDS before another rocket will strike somewhere or someone soon. It might even be you as you cuddle your dying child. What if your other children were afraid to sleep and more afraid to be awake?

Think of the location of your child's school......THE early WARNING SIREN JUST SOUNDED....you have FIFTEEN SECONDS to protect your child.

How do you raise a child to be not afraid when their heart races, their mind struggles and the very soul of your son or daughter is bound by FIFTEEN SECONDS to think, react and hope to live through the next minute of time.

FIFTEEN SECONDS....put down your remote, end your cell phone call, set your micro wave.... Imagine the sound of metal balls riveting against your siding, crashing through your windows, pelting your car in the driveway as you panic because your teenager is at a friend’s home!

When the hate of the Arab launches a Qassam rocket into Ashkelon or Sderot this is but some of the questions two cities in Southern Israel must have answers to. It takes 15 seconds for a Qassam rocket, fired from Gaza into Sderot or Ashkelon to reach the people who REFUSE to leave.

The people at Barzilai Medical Center have no time to reason these questions. They are the ones who see the results of those who did not succeed with their 15 seconds to safety. They are the Doctors and Nurses and Staff who heal the broken, patch the bleeding and save the lives of those that did not get lost to the hate!

Please, know the truth, bother to learn and be brave enough to support the men and women of Barzilai Medical Center. These very same Doctors, Nurses and Staff even provide the same care to those that launch the rockets. Barzilai Medical Center does not refuse anyone care and treatment……it defies explanation or exemplifies humanity, I am not sure which!

Pray, donate or just give a damn........for these amazing people who need your help and you money (http://www.doctor.co.il/Hospitals/Barzilai.htm) Just do it!

I am not affiliated with or paid to promote this website ...I just KNOW the truth! Lea Malul does too!

Hello to my new friend Efrat Algressi. (Thank you for your lack of political correctness!)

Jeff Morton is a former business owner and staunch supporter of conservatism in the mold of Frederick Douglass Jr. and Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Regan. Mr. Morton, originally from Rochester, NY currently resides in the Pacific Northwest. He is one of the assistant producers of a regional game show that promotes "good kids" at the high school level.