Thursday, July 1, 2010

Scenes from this ongoing but unreported war


Arnold/Frimet Roth
This Ongoing War: A Blog
30 June '10

Yet another Qassam rocket - one of the thousands reportedly stockpiled by the Hamas regime and its jihadist co-conspirators in the Gaza Strip - was fired off in the general direction of Israel in the early hours of this morning (Wednesday). To say that it was deliberately aimed at civilians is both true and untrue. Terrorists in possession of crude but lethal weaponry are completely indifferent about what damage their attacks cause. Indifferent - because anything they hit is an achievement. There is no strategic goal of trying to cripple the enemy's military forces. Never has been, not in the 1990's or 1950's or 1920's - never. On the contrary, the jihadists have demonstrated for decades a preference for hiding from the Israeli military and striking kindergartens, little children and the like. This is one of the many reasons they are accurately described as terrorists.

The operators of today's Qassam unfortunately got lucky.

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