'Let's make our own rockets'

There's an article in the Jerusalem Post titled, 'Let's make our own rockets!'

You can almost imagine Mickey Rooney and/or Judy Garland uttering those words in an old Andy Hardy movie if the setting was modern day Israel near the Gaza Strip:

A new Facebook group is urging Sderot residents to use the Internet to learn how to build crude rockets, much like the Kassams launched at them from the Gaza Strip, and fire them back at the Palestinians.

The group, which currently has 45 members, posts material from the Internet on how to manufacture rockets.

Facebook, a social networking site that has taken the on-line world by storm, allows anyone to create groups and to invite people to join.

The group's creators, Shai and Batya Messenberg from Petah Tikva, posted a description that reads: "It cannot be so difficult: If those retards from the Gaza Strip can do it then so can you."

The description encourages residents of the town to trawl the Net for information on how to build ballistic missiles from materials found in the home.

"I'm sure that very soon they [the Gazans] will get the message," the group's creator wrote.

It's about time some ingenious locals start figuring it out. It's quite evident that the Israeli gov't isn't going to do anything about it. Certainly the U.N., or the rest of the world, for that matter, doesn't care if the Palestinians lob rockets at the Israelis.

But just wait until creative Israelis citizens start fighting back and all diplomatic hell will break loose decrying the abuse of human rights. The lopsided debate would be funny if it weren't so pathetic.