Palestinians Confused By Kabul Rockets Not Aimed At Israel

“They prioritize their rocket use for something other than killing Jews…?”

Gaza City, September 30 – A series of attacks on Hamid Karzai International Airport by various militant Islamist groups has residents of this coastal enclave and others farther inland wondering what those attacks targeted, given that few, if any, Jews, and certainly not the Jewish State, appear anywhere in or near the trajectory of the weapons the attackers launched.

Palestinian government and civilians voiced their puzzlement today following reports of rockets launched at the Afghan capital’s main airport, because none of those rockets can even reach Israel, so what would be the point? The attacks game as tens of thousands of Afghans and others attempt to find a way out of the country, following the rapid collapse of US-backed government forces and takeover by the Islamist Taliban movement.

“I’m still trying to figure out what’s going on there,” admitted senior Fatah figure Jibril Rajoub. “We have Iran-backed and Iran-supplied militias; they have Iran-backed and Iran-supplied militias. We have virulently antisemitic culture and politics; they have virulently antisemitic culture and politics. Yet despite those important similarities, these incidents raise the troubling possibility that they prioritize their rocket use for something other than killing Jews, and I just can’t wrap my head around that. Neither can many of my fellow Palestinians.”

“There’s like one Jew left in Afghanistan, and as far as I can tell, those rockets weren’t aimed anywhere near him,” observed Khalil Qawasme of Hebron. “You can bet if there were a Jew anywhere in range of any rockets in my arsenal, I’d be doing nothing but trying to kill him, no matter what the cost. I know the Taliban’s and ISIS-K’s Islamist credentials are beyond reproach. That’s exactly what confuses me. I thought our shared mentality meant that killing, or simply terrorizing, Jews, to remind them of their rightful, subject place under Islamic domination, must take place even at the cost of our own quality of life. Yet none of the recent Kabul rocket attacks seem to follow that sensibility. Maybe it’s fake news?”

Fawzi Barhoum of Hamas noted that other cases of rockets not hitting Israel, such as those targeting rebel-held areas in Syria, government-controlled areas of Iraq, or Saudi Arabia, often prompt similar confusion. “Usually we’re able to shoehorn those into our Palestine Über Alles Weltanschauung, sometimes by conflating all US allies with Zionists, and sometimes by simply ignoring anything that doesn’t fit our preconceived notions. The latter is pretty useful in general, for example when the Syrian regime kills Palestinians.”

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