“Crude, homemade rockets” still landing in Israel

The daily rocket and mortar fire—which somehow doesn’t get nearly as much notice by the media as the daily “humiliations” of checkpoints—continues to fall on Israel.

Eight mortar shells and four Qassam rockets landed in the Negev Sunday morning, as residents continued to suffer the brunt of Palestinian munitions fired at the country.

The eight mortar shells, which were launched from the northern Gaza Strip, landed in the Eshkol Regional Council kibbutz of Keren Shalom. One of the shells hit a house, causing a fire. Fire fighters rushed to the scene; no one was injured.

“Luckily for us, the kibbutz dwellings are fortified, and the open areas of the kibbutz are also fortified. I really hope something is done to stop the shooting,” said Eli Aharon, deputy head of the Eshkol Regional Council.

The rockets are falling because the rocketeers aren’t suffering many consequences. It’s rare that the IDF manages to actually get the ones firing the rockets, and when they do, there are always more ready to take their places. And oh, yeah—those “crude, homemade rockets”—not so much.

The Salah-al-Din Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, claimed responsibility for the mortar shell attack, and said the rocket that landed near the Netivot cemetery was a new and improved type of mortar shell.

According to findings by the Negev police explosives lab, the rocket was in fact a Katyusha rocket.

Sources in the IDF claimed it was a long-range Grad missile. Further testing of the missile is still underway.

Imagine, if you would, that this man lived in San Diego, and suffered continuouous rocket fire from Mexican terrorists who were trying to “liberate” California from the U.S. and return it to the indigenous people (in spite of the fact that the real indigenous people would be, gee, the Mexican Indian tribes that were massacred by the Spaniards centuries ago). Let’s do that for a moment:

San Diego manager Ilan Regev told Ynet that mortar shells frequently landed in the town. “It’s scary, but we live with it. This is the first time a house was directly hit. Before, windowpanes were broken, but never something like this,” Regev said.

Now, what it really looks like:

Kerem Shalom manager Ilan Regev told Ynet that mortar shells frequently landed in the kibbutz. “It’s scary, but we live with it. This is the first time a house was directly hit. Before, windowpanes were broken, but never something like this,” Regev said.

Really. The concept of rockets and mortars falling on your town on a regular basis? “It’s scary, but we live with it.”

Why? Because Olmert is not a leader. Because the world will rise up in unrighteous indignation if Israel sends in the IDF to clean out the nests of terrorists firing rockets at civilians, though they will not rise up in protest of the Palestinians trying to murder Israeli schoolchildren in Sderot. Because the world thinks that if the Palestinians only get their own state, the terrorists will stop trying to make Sderot a ghost town.

Why would they stop? The rocket fire is working. Not even Israel cares enough to make it stop.