Here’s a puzzle for you: What happened in the last few weeks that would have changed the effectiveness of the “crude, homemade rocket” attacks from Gaza?
Here’s a hint: The destruction of the Egyptian border.
Here’s another hint: The entrance into Gaza of hundreds (if not thousands) of Iranian-trained terrorists, replete with more, better rockets.
The result? The rockets are killing and wounding more Israelis in one week than they have in the past several months.
Katyushas and Grad rockets have landed in Ashkelon.
Several rockets were fired at Ashkelon earlier Thursday, one directly hitting a house. Several people suffered shock; Magen David Adom paramedics were sent to the scene.
One of the rockets reportedly landed, for the first time, in the city’s north. The third rocket was located in the city’s south.
More are probably on the way. And even better news—kassam development is improving.
Hamas will likely be able to expand the range of its homemade rockets to 20 kilometers by the end of the year, an Israel security official said Thursday.
So they won’t need to import their rockets much longer.
Where would Hamas have gotten Russian-made rockets? Gee, let’s think. Starts with I and ends with RAN.
Police said five foreign-made Katyusha rockets reached Ashkelon, a city of 109,000. One rocket went through the roof of a crowded apartment building, but no one was hurt. An 17-year-old Israeli girl was slightly wounded by the second rocket.
Not that the Russians have any problem with helping to murder Jews. They’ve done it for centuries.
But the big question is: What is it going to take for Olmert to order some kind of action that will stop the rocket attacks? Why is it that Hamas gets to hold their rallies out in the open, without fear, between planning attacks on Israel?
They should never be allowed to show their faces in public again. Screw public opinion. The Hamas anniversary celebration was an opportunity to take out their entire leadership with one blow. Perhaps Israel should start thinking seriously about doing that in the future.
Sadly it’s going to take the murder of several children to get him to start a major offensive.
One of those rockets is going to hit a school and do what thousands of rockets hitting dirt never could, it will finally turn public opinion away from how “evil” Israel is when actively attacking JUST terrorists.
And turn it towards the EVIL SONS OF BITCHES that are ACTIVELY TRYING TO KILL INNOCENTS.
And once THAT rain of metal comes down on Hamas you’ll see their PR people trying to turn to their puppets and instead of them getting wonder stories about Pali suffering, they’ll get a shrug back in return.
Thank you for keeping up with this, Meryl. I don’t get much time to follow the news in detail and of course all you hear from the nauseating MSM is how mean Israel is to the poor Palestinians just because the Pals are firing “crude” rockets that slaughter Israeli children.
Leadership? We have leadership? Where? I don’t see any.