Pointing fingers on the school yard

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=101321&f=19

In reading the NYT story on the Israeli barracks that were hit by a rocket thrre were two glaring factual ommissions:

1- Palestinian rockets aren't just "dumb" (ie nonprecision), they are the dumbest weapons out there. Not to say they aren't culpable for the results of firing them off. But for those soldiers it is a case of shitty luck, not some nefarious premeditation.

2- The night before IDF special forces conducted a brazen raid on a Gaza compound (wearing Hamas uniforms to get close) and abducted some fairly senior Hamas guys. Now the rocket may not have been a direct retaliation - after all these are launched every day, usually landing harmlessly in empty fields - but the larger point is that it isn't like Israel was just sitting there twiddling it's thumbs when big bad Hamas pointed at the barracks on a map and 2 minutes later boom!

After all, the article reveals that the Israeli's have been publicly considering cutting off the little bit of water and power that even gets to Gaza in their continuing quest to delegitimize Palestinian opposition to a de facto unilateral final settlement.

Best line was the author's attempt to use the random child in the street with candy as a prop to prove how those dirty sand monkey A-rabs are just frothing at the mouth and celebrating the deaths of the poor, innocent Israeli's being trained to kick down their doors and shoot them.