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Crude homemade rockets

Yesterday Meryl Yourish took issue with the way the media portrays attacks on Israel from Gaza.

Say, those “crude, homemade rockets” that “rarely do any damage”?

They killed a woman, and cause the loss of both legs of a 24-year-old man. These people, however, have no names in the AP report.

But these attacks from Gaza mustn't be viewed simply for the limited (though sometimes catastrophic) damage that they caused. Like the sporadic attacks on the north by Hezbollah from 2000 - 2006, the continued attacks must be viewed as a statement of hositility and intent to attack more aggressively in the future. Minimizing these attacks as is done in the media only ignores the growing threat coming from Gaza.