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I understand that this site is for tech and science; but to imagine that those aspects are hermetically sealed and that they exist in a different universe from the "facts on the ground" is to deny that we are flesh and blood creatures that share a common biology and a common biosphere and a common global civilization. The rockets this article describes are weapons of terror that understandably frighten the hundreds of thousands (millions?) of Israelis in range.....though, realistically, they do relatively little damage when compared to the ferocity of the current attacks on the people of Gaza. Israel is playing into the hands of the most radical elements of Hamas and Hamas is playing into the most radical elements of Israel. Those who desire war and death so that they may benefit politically and economically (in the case of the MI complex) are engaged in a mutually beneficial orgy of perverse motivations. The blood spilled, lives lost and lives destroyed mean nothing to the people at the "top" on both sides. I love and enjoy science and technology; it has the very real potential to transform human life so that there may be no disease, no poverty and global ecological balance. We can become a race of very long lived beings who could actually reach the stars; but at this rate we are on a trajectory towards a well deserved extinction. We shall either evolve as a global peaceful culture, or we will kill each other using the latest "technology" to the point of extinction. The status quo is not indefinitely sustainable. We need to advance the political sciences and the other so called "soft" sciences to keep pace with our capacity to kill each other using both primitive and "advanced" technologies.