Primitive missiles that are miles from rocket science

Fraser MacDonald Qassams, shmassams!" joked Shimon Peres in 2006. The then Israeli vice-premier was urging Israelis to calm down amid a barrage of Qassam rockets Hamas had fired from Gaza into the Israeli Negev town of Sderot. "This hysteria over the Qassams must end," he said. An Israeli defence spokesperson dismissed the rockets as "dumb firecrackers".