You know, if me and a group of my buddies decided one night to start launching rockets from my home state of New Jersey across the Hudson River into New York City, it would take about five minutes for a literal ARMY of police to be converging on the launch points.

Not only could I expect maybe ten THOUSAND New York City cops, but literally THOUSANDS of New Jersey Cops from every city, town, village, county and the state police too.

Heck, I imagine the NYPD would be streaming through the Lincoln Tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, and Across the George Washington Bridge right into New Jersey to go after the perps. They wouldn't even think twice about jurisdiction; they'd be coming to kick the ass of the people launching rockets into their city!

And if they couldn't find, or stop, the launches, the Governors of both New York and New Jersey would:
1) Call-up their National Guard, AND;
2) Call the White House to get US military support ASAP.

I suspect that in under an hour from the Governor's calls, (about as long as it took on 9-11) U.S. military attack helicopters and maybe even a couple fighter jets would be buzzing overhead.

And I can tell you those thousands of cops, National Guard Troops and military would not stop unless and until they either killed me and my buddies, or arrested every darn one of us.

And this is just if me and my pals did it ONCE, never mind every week like goes on in GAZA.

Of course I would never engage in such behavior and none of you should either. I'm just trying to make this point:

I have come to the conclusion that these attacks continue because the people in power over there WANT them to continue.

The attacks are useful to both sides. PROPAGANDA! It's useful to Israel who turns to America and pleads "send us more free aid money, we HAVE to defend ourselves." It's also useful to guys like Netanyahu who is now fending-off a corruption Indictment and has to stand for election in two weeks. He gets to tell Israeli's "Look, I'm being tough on these barbaric Arabs, you NEED me!" It's useful to the Arabs in Gaza who tell their fellow Arabs, "We're attacking the Zionist Oppressors, please send us more money, we're starving, we can't survive!" It's like two shakedown artists performing for "their" side, then living high on the hog from all the money that comes their way.


Notice how few people ever get killed in all this firing? Sure, some get killed. But nowhere near the scale one might expect if these rocket attacks were intent on accomplishing anything substantial. Even the Israeli military gives a "knock on the roof" of buildings they intend to destroy. A small projectile is dropped on the roof of the building and THAT is the warning to GET OUT NOW because in five minutes, a 500 pound bomb is coming. Who does that? If Israel is actually trying to FIGHT the people attacking them, WHO GIVES THE BAD GUYS 5 MINUTES WARNING?

I have come to the conclusion this is all theater. And I'm annoyed by it.