Anna Geifman, author of Death Orders: The Vanguard of Modern Terrorism in Revolutionary Russia, has a guest post over at Solomonia on the changing nature of terrorism.

Specifically, Geifman focuses on Terror Strikes on Children:

Terrorism today is not what it was a century ago—or ever. Its patterns changed—from assassinations aimed to punish specific targets to what perpetrators called “motiveless terror” against civilians. Presently, unnoticed by most, they focus on the creation of “fear zones.” They do so by intentionally targeting children.

...The town of Sderot is the Israeli “trauma zone.” With few fatalities, it is not a site to pick up sensational news items; random and inaccurate Hamas qassam fire from Gaza has become almost a regular event. The shelled town is another instance where, overlooked by most observers, modern terrorism has reached a new phase by specifically targeting children.

Read about how Hamas terrorists have created a "death space" in Sderot--akin to what the Chechen terrorists created in Beslan and "analogous to 'zones of sadness,' which instantaneously mushroomed from Ground Zero into areas of Manhattan and Brooklyn, as far as Staten Island and New Jersey on 9/11.

Technorati Tag: Hamas and Terrorism and Sderot and 9-11.