Morning Qassam Barrage Fired At Kids On Their Way To School. Again.
by Omri Ceren
Qassams have a 10km range and can pack up to 20kg of explosives and shrapnel. The time between the red alert siren and the rocket’s impact is about 15 seconds. So the Palestinians routinely launch rockets at Sderot at around 7:45am to target kids who are walking to school and are too far from buildings to get to a shelter. Now that power is back on in Gaza, Palestinian soldiers are right back at it:
Two barrages were fired shortly before 8 am, as Sderot’s children were making their way to school. Nine Qassam rockets and 13 mortar shells were fired at the western Negev communities on Monday afternoon. Three of the mortars landed in the Palestinian territories.
Surreal. No country on the planet would tolerate that for a day, let alone for the months upon months of that Israelis have been subjected to.
[Cross-posted to Mere Rhetoric]
Tags: Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Palestinians, Sderot
January 26th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
For all the complaints we get about how the United States is screwing Israel, the real problem seems to be Israel. There is a very simple off the shelf solution to problems who fire rockets at school children. You fly bombers and attack helicopters over those responsible, drop cluster bombs, fuel air munitions, and napalm, strafe with electric Gatling guns, and blow the problems into bloody pieces of unrecognizable flesh and bone fragments, while leaving any survivors so dazed and traumatized that they will never try it again. The fact that Israel fails to do this doubtlessly suggests to the Kumbaya-singers in the U.S. State Department (which also fails to act on the female U.S. citizens whom Saudi Arabia is holding in white slavery) that they can pacify the terrorists with parts of Israel.
One or two bombs would turn the power off in Gaza, and Israel should do that as well.
January 26th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
You’re right Bill, but Israel’s pathetic political “leaders” have no strength of character. And they care far more about pleasing the international community then protecting the lives of their own citizens, which they obviously do not value.
January 27th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Laura, I have no doubt of what you say, but the real reason is they are protecting their positions so as to continue their personal income. This is just another reason to write a constitution whereby Israel’s officials are represented by the people and not the party to which they owe their allegience.
February 2nd, 2008 at 5:38 am
Bill Levinson seems not to notice that Israel exists in a community of nations. That is is small. That its economy is fragile and highly dependent on tourism (and therefore good will), and that no one beyond the occupied territories seems to think it is a country at risk.