NYT: Rocket Attacks Clumsy, Inaccurate, Not So Bad Really

Charles Johnsonfollow me on twitter
Fri Jun 16, 2006 at 9:08 am PDT • Views: 308

The New York Times wants us to know that those hundreds of Qassam rockets Palestinian terrorists are firing into Israel, in a deliberate attempt to murder civilians at random, are clumsy and inaccurate. (Hat tip: Occasional Reader.)

And the MSM Template is applied again, quoting an “official” of the George Soros-funded, incredibly anti-Israel Human Rights Watch without identifying their radical leftist agenda.

But LGF readers will have no trouble identifying the rancid stench of “progressive” moral equivalence.

Peter Bouckaert, a Human Rights Watch official who investigated both the Qassam firing and the Israeli response, said neither side was adequately safeguarding civilians.

“The Qassams are ineffective from a military perspective, but it doesn’t matter how many people they kill because they indiscriminately target civilians,” he said. “On the other hand, the Israeli response has been a lot more deadly in terms of the civilians killed in Gaza.

”Both sides justify their methods by the abuses committed by the other side, but I think we need to get out of this cycle of violence.”

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