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September 10, 2007
Qassam Injures Dozens
Over 40 Israeli soldiers were wounded after a Qassam rocket launched from northern Gaza landed on a military base in the western Negev early Tuesday morning. This is the largest number of casualties to date resulting from a single Qassam attack.
Three rockets were launched at around 1:30 am, from the area of the Palestinian town of Beit Hanoun. Two of the rockets landed in open areas, but one landed in the Zikkim base, about 1 kilometer north of the Gaza Strip, next to a tent containing several soldiers from a battalion in basic training.
Two of the casualties were seriously injured, nine were moderately injured and 30 were lightly injured. The wounded, along with their battalion members, were scheduled to complete basic training mere hours after the attack took place.
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This attack indicates that that the terrorists have improved their ability to aim the Qassam rockets. These are not pin-point laser munitions, but they don't have to be. They are weapons of terror. Last week the Arab terrorists targeted a children's day care center. Today an army base. Soon the terrorists will improve the Qassam's range and the lethality of these rockets will make them something more than just a weapon of terror.
They will be weapons of slaughter.
I will say it again: It is time for Israel to turn off the power to Gaza. There is no reason for Israel to enable her blood enemies. The so-called Palestinians have received more foreign aid than any other country on the face of the earth. They could have used the money to build an infrastructure, to build an electrical power grid—instead of relying on Israel, their enemies, for electricity.
Instead, the so-called Palestinian leadership stole the money, or used it to buy weapons to kill Jews. But mostly the PA leadership just pissed away billions upon billions of dollars on the most corrupt thugogracy the world has ever seen.
And oh yes, Suha Arafat, Yassir's pretend wife, gets about a million dollars a month to fight on behalf of her beloved Arab brethren from her seventeen-room luxury Paris apartment. It's a tough life—shopping all day long—but somebody's gotta do it.
There is no reason for the IDF to invade Gaza. Just turn off the power and let the terrorist state of Gazastan implode. The citizens of Gaza voted Hamas into power, let them take full responsibility for their free and proud choice.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at September 10, 2007 09:15 PM
Comments
Seraphic Secret is private property, that's right, it's an extension of our home, and as such, Karen and I have instituted two Seraphic Rules and we ask commentors to act respectfully.
1. No profanity.2. No Israel bashing. We debate, we discuss, we are respectful. You know what Israel bashing is. The world is full of it. Seraphic Secret is one of the few places in the world that will not tolerate this form of anti-Semitism. That's it. Break either of these rules and you will be banned.
Your advice is entirely reasonable, which is why it won't be done.
Posted by: pdwalker at September 10, 2007 10:47 PM
PD:
Yes, reports indicate that the government of Israel is looking into the "legality" of switching off the power to Gaza.
While they are consulting their bright Jewish lawyers the Israeli government should look into the legality of national suicide.
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at September 11, 2007 12:08 AM
Robert:
Recently the US has been pressuring Israel to accept Fatah as a legitimate partner. This comming November Bush has ordered Olmert to form an alliance with Fatah.
I assume that Bush is forbidding Olmert to respond to the recent wave of Kassam's so as no to ruin his upcomming peace conference.
Posted by: David at September 11, 2007 05:26 AM
No they don't have to be laser guided munitions. Which is why I was perturbed last week when Scott Wilson of the Washington Post threw in the gratuitous modifiers "highly inaccurate" to describe Qassams.
Interesting, it's clearly not the first time Wilson has used that terminology. (Go to Sat. June 24, 2006 for the reference.)
Posted by: soccer dad at September 11, 2007 06:14 AM
Despair is a sin, but I am continually shocked, amazed, and dumbfounded that there are so many who are so hell bent on their own suicides.
Posted by: pdwalker at September 11, 2007 11:15 AM
Technically it is not a problem to stop rockets: divide the enemy land into squares and make them clear that if there is a rocket out of the square everything is grounded there. They want to live somewhere, aren't they? Garbage-in, garbage-out. The only point is that this will cause too much causalities and none wants to use such means.
The answer of Mr.Peres to this issue was: "Nanotech beats rockets". That is, cover all the area with hornet planes and knock down by artillery or whatever, everything that appears similar to launchers.
Posted by: medvegonok at September 11, 2007 11:52 AM
It is going to have to get really ugly before it gets better.
Posted by: Jack at September 11, 2007 12:14 PM
A weapon does not always have to be accurate to cause great damage. The German bombs that did so much damage to London during the Blitz were very inaccurate; so were the British bombs that destroyed Hamburg and other German cities. Not to mention the V-2 rockets, which had a Circular Error Probable measured in miles.
The reason why the media harps on the "inaccuracy" and "primitivenss" of the Qassams is clear: it is done in order to support a narrative in which the Israelis are a fearsome technological society and the terrorists are weak and therefore deserving of sympathy.
Posted by: david foster at September 11, 2007 02:13 PM
Robert,
It is in Israel's long term (military) interests to control Gaza's utilities. Turning them off now as a punishment would force Gazans to get new a source of power (from egypt or independently) and Israel would lose its immediate control of the utilities.
(I know your response. But israel would never do that. this is just the way things are.)
Shanah Tovah
Posted by: mo'ah kemo ephro'ah at September 11, 2007 10:16 PM
Mo'ah:
Thanks so much for the strategic lesson. I know that you know my response, but I'll give it anyway. Call it a touch of Seraphic Tourette's.
1. Egypt has zero inclination or ability to provide power to their beloved Arab brethren in Gaza.
2. There is no independent elsewhere for Gaza to draw power from. They can't even set up an infrastructure to pick up garbage. They have no ability to build, only destroy.
3. Drop leaflets that inform the peace loving citizens of Gaza that for each rocket that's launched into Israel they lose one week of power.
4. It's their choice.
5. Shana Tova umituka, my good friend.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at September 11, 2007 10:32 PM
It is in Israel's long term (military) interests to control Gaza's utilities.
I assume you mean so they can shut them off should they wish to invade. But Israel would not lose that capability, which can be accomplished any old time with a flight of bombers.
Posted by: kishke at September 12, 2007 10:20 AM