The AP article actually calls kassams “crude projectiles” in this story, even after identifying the wounds as such:
The rocket blew through the living room and exploded in a bedroom where three children were sleeping, relatives said.
Two-year-old Samir al-Masri’s legs were two broken, said Dr. Said Judeh of Kamal Adwan hospital. The boy’s 4-year-old sister and 3-year-old brother were lightly wounded by shrapnel, said their uncle, Jad al-Masri.
The rocket broke both legs of a two-year-old child. Shards of metal entered his siblings’ bodies, cutting the flesh. And how does the AP describe this killing machine?
In Beit Hanoun, Palestinian militants fired two rockets toward Israel from the northern Gaza town. One of the crude projectiles misfired and struck a nearby house, a Palestinian security official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
A “crude projectile.” You know what a crude projectile is? My brothers making a mortar out of a metal pipe, M-80s, and tennis balls. We shot those suckers into the next street, not stopping to think they might have hurt someone coming down. Those are “crude projectiles.” Rocks are “crude projectiles.” These?
These are rockets.
And the palestinians are back to launching them every single day. In spite of the so-called “truce.”
Ceasefire violations continue: Another three Qassam rockets were fired at Israel Thursday morning, following seven rockets launched Wednesday.
Two of the rockets fired Thursday landed in Palestinian territory, and one landed in Israel.
Wednesday saw a record number of Qassam rockets launched in one day during the ceasefire which was declared last month. In total, seven rockets were fired on Wednesday and during the night, landing in the western Negev.
At least 40 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip since the truce came into force.
Some truce.
Update: The source is Xinhua, but this story says the children’s mother miscarried due to the rocket attack. Another dead child at the hands of the terrorists (and this one will be tallied in the “killed by Israel” column, as usual).
The rockets keep falling on Israel and when the Israelis finally have enough and take steps to do something about it world reaction will take one of two forms, either: a) The Israelis have broken a truce that was holding despite one or two little violations; or b) it’s another sad example of the cycle of violence that besets the Middle East and aggrieves all parties equally.
This is because as usual from Arabs, words, from Jews, deeds. The Arabs are adhering to the truce if they say they are. The Israelis break the truce if they defend themselves.
I’d say more but the day of peace on earth and goodwill to men is fast approaching. As to the western world’s “good will to men,” well, see what Meryl calls the Exception Clause for the exception.
Israel will ALWAYS be on the losing end as long as the Arabs don’t feel the price they have to pay to keep the Jews under the rain of terror missiles is too high. So what does that mean, tactically? We don’t know because the IDF hasn’t been allowed to literally carpet-bomb large swaths of territory. In the meantime, more Jews will have to die because the Arabs, en masse, believe their current path is the right one, unless persuaded by more forceful Israeli resistance.