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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: one_less who wrote (81143)2/9/2009 1:37:47 PM
From: TimF1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
If only a tiny percentage get past the defense and they land in the dirt someplace the massive campaigns would likely be stopped.

These are mostly pretty cheap rockets, fired by people with a lot of anger. If the odds of hitting anything were very low, they would probably be fired based on hope or as a protest, as long as firing them is a minimal risk activity (no counter attacks).

Even with no defenses, most individual rockets don't kill any Israelis. They are very inaccurate (some even fall short and kill Palestinians, or go off course and head out to sea), and Israel does have shelters. They aren't effective military weapons, or weapons of capable of causing truly massive numbers of civilian casualties (they aren't "the fire bombing of Tokyo"). Hamas doesn't fire the weapons as something that is effective in the military sense, but rather as something to cause terror. It doesn't take many deaths and injuries from terrorism, in order to get a big psychological reaction.
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