More rocket attacks against Israel and pointless responses by the Israeli Air Force (IAF):
Throughout the day and evening on Thursday,
Gaza rockets as well as mortar shells fell in southern Israel, including
a Grad rocket which hit near a Netivot synagogue.
Other rockets hit an
open area south of Ashkelon,
a location near Netivot,
in Sderot on Thursday night as well as rockets which hit
Sha’ar HaNegev and
Sdot Negev during the day, at least 11 rockets in all hit sites in southern Israel as well as
mortal shells hitting western Negev.
In response to the daytime attacks, the
IDF Spokesperson issued this report:
The Israel Air Force recently attacked four smuggling tunnels in the Rafah border area, in response to eight Qassam rockets and two mortar shells fired from the Gaza strip today, and to the ongoing firing of over 140 rockets, mortar shells and Grad missiles from the Gaza Strip since the holding of fire on January 18th. An additional smuggling tunnel was attacked earlier today.
It needs to be asked:
1) Didn't the IAF attack the smuggling tunnels during the recent Operation Cast Lead, a.k.a. "the war in Gaza"?
2) Did they miss the ones they attacked yesterday during the war, or have they been created since the war ended?
3) How many smuggling tunnels are there anyway?
4) If all the attacks against the tunnels during the war were not sufficient, or if it is so easy to recreate the tunnels that there are fresh ones to attack regularly so soon after the war, what exactly is the point of dropping a few bombs on them now?
5) Why are the smugglers, the terrorists, their leaders, their command-and-control centers, and their bomb and missile factories not being attacked also? The tunnels aren't launching the missiles at us.
And finally, the biggest question of them all:
6) Will Israel's security policy change for the better with the new government being formed?
