P F Tinmore,
et al,
This is rather an unusual attitude; an unproductive attitude. Just "snotty" in technical terms.
(COMMENT)
The Palestinians don't have any real military rocket utilization strategy. The recent barrage, other then to instill fear and to enhance the gradual atmosphere of terror, has no real military value. It is indiscriminate and random fire; part of a persistent effort to provoke retaliation.
The propaganda program is based on the exploitation of the Israeli retaliation; as in the "baby killing" campaign
(seen recently in a number of threads here) and "war crimes" allegations
(made recently by the same authors) to capitalize on the incidental casualties
(self inflected) they purposely induce through the indiscriminate and random fire
(Article 51, Protocol I).
When analyzing cost, one has to look at the intrinsic value
(politically tangible and the ethically intangible) of the countermeasure and what it saves; as well as, what it costs. In this case, the countermeasure can save Palestinian lives
[causalities purposely placed in harms way by HAMAS (and company)] and the lives of Israelis
[civilians not involved in the military exchange, (Article 52, Protocol I)]. That is a intangible value attributed to the system; beyond the myopic view.
(ALTERNATIVES)
The HAMAS leadership certainly would want to criticize the countermeasure. It potentially saves lives on both sides of the conflict.
HAMAS want to purposely evoke hostilities in order to have a rigged substantive claim from the retaliation. They want the Israelis to engage in more traditional combat against the headquarters, communications, intelligence and logistics elements that support the Article 51/52 attacks. They intentionally put civilians in harms way as human shields in order to complain.
Most respectfully,
R