Thread:Comments:International Committee of the Red Cross condemns Gaza blockade/International Committee of the Red Cross condemns Gaza blockade/reply (2)

Can we please move past the "rockets are a threat to Israel" thing? Less than 10 Israelis have been killed by rockets in the last 10 years, making them a threat perhaps comparable to bee stings and lightning strikes, and far less dangerous than, say, defective consumer products or car crashes, which no one in Israel seems too worried about. By comparison, many thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese have been killed (in their own lands and in many cases their own homes) by invading IDF forces.

And, as we have seen, even when Palestinians fire *no* rockets, the Israeli government has no compunction about invading neighboring lands and killing people who have nothing to do with the conflict.

The whole rocket issue is yet another smokescreen. Please stop parroting it.