I usually try not to get too involved w/ your arguments TM7, but you are overlooking a few items in this argument...
1). Think about the puny rocket attacks...possiblely a last resort tactic of the Palestinians pending their slow genocide due to the Israeli breaking the peace accords and BLOCKADING the Gaza...no fuel, practically no food, no medicine, no power, even no shoes, not allowed to come i or leave, and so on. Yet they claim 10s of thousands of rockets have been launched into Israeli occupied territory. How is this possible?
The primary purpose in the Israeli air attack was to destroy numerous tunnel's that have been used to ferry in these components. Secondary missions have been targeted successfully at terrorist leaders and followers.
2.) Thousands of rockets would require truck load after truck load of solid chemical rocket fuel ( a rather rare commodity), steel tubing, nozzle assemblies and so forth. Then these rockets don't even carry guidance and payloads and reportly no Israelis have been killed. This does not add up logically; in fact seems patently false and contrived according to intell agencies around the world....
TM7 really makes this fuel issue seem like rocket science doesn't he?
Petroleum fuels are those refined from crude oil and are a mixture of complex hydrocarbons, i.e. organic compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen. The petroleum used as rocket fuel is a type of highly refined
kerosene, called RP-1 in the United States. Petroleum fuels are usually used in combination with
liquid oxygen as the oxidizer. Kerosene delivers a specific impulse considerably less than cryogenic fuels, but it is generally better than hypergolic propellants.
Crude oil from the Middle East?!? NO WAY! By now I would have thought that an intelligent individual such as yourself TM7 would have realized that when any terrorist society, or nation decides she's going to wage war, it's the civilians in said society that suffer... just look at history...
3.) If the Palestinians were dead set to kill their captors they would likely resort to bombs and suicide bombs where their enemy can actually be touched.
you mean like they have been doing for the past several years?
4.) Then these rockets don't even carry guidance and payloads and reportly no Israelis have been killed.
Wow, whats funny is that if there were a group of Mexican nationals or Canadian nationals firing rockets 20-30 miles into the US border, you would be coming apart at the seams... an attack on sovereign soil is just that...