Official PA daily op-ed hopes Hamas rockets will become more lethal
Excerpt of an op-ed by Yahya Rabah, regular columnist for the official PA daily
“The first moment after the 11-day war between Israel and the Gaza Strip ended (refers to Hamas rocket barrages on Israeli cities; see note below -Ed.), …Israel and its dear ones made the first propaganda sentence heard everywhere, saying that ‘the efficiency of the rockets that the Palestinian factions are firing from the Gaza Strip at Israel does not exceed 15%’ (PMW found no such statement; might refer to percentage of rockets that the Iron Dome system did not intercept -Ed.). At that moment I listened to the news broadcast in which this fabricated report was given regarding the low efficiency of the Palestinian rockets, and it seems that the neighbors from all four directions watched the same news broadcast. I saw something strange: I saw the neighbors going out to the porches of their homes very happy, and their wives and daughters made sounds of joy. I wondered what these sounds of joy were for, and I was told that the people are happy because if the rockets’ efficiency does not exceed 15% and they did to Israel all [the damage] that they did, then these are divine good tidings. In Arab heritage [there is an expression] ‘Hope for good and you will find it.’ We used to not have rockets, and today we have rockets that we are producing from the remains of pipes, and the enemy admits that their efficiency is 15%. Tomorrow their efficiency will be higher, 200% (sic., 20%), 50%, and 100%. Every day we will improve, every day will be better.”