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IAF warns Paleos: "Don't make us come in there..."
2006-04-02
Israeli warplanes dropped thousands of flyers over Gaza Strip Saturday demanding people to cut off armed Palestinian factions especially those launching missiles against Israel. The flyers warned that there will be grave consequences, "destruction and devastation", if factions continue to launch missiles at Israeli towns from the Gaza Strip. It read, "The State of Israel has evacuated Gaza Strip and granted you an opportunity to live in peace and to manage your lives by yourselves, hence, until when you will allow terrorism to control your lives?" The Israeli army will carry out countering operations in case the missile attacks continue, it added.

This is not the first time Israeli planes drop such flyers warning the people in Gaza against Palestinian organization's missile attacks. The Israeli Army considers "launching raids inside Gaza City a strong message to the new Palestinian leadership headed by Hamas," an army spokesperson said on the radio. The army will expand its operations in the strip over the next few days on the pretext that "Palestinian security forces are not doing anything to stop terrorism." The Israeli forces will broaden assassination operations against Palestinian activists in an attempt "to increase pressure on Palestinian organizations and Hamas' government," the spokesperson said.
Posted by:Seafarious

#14  The problem is that our Cold War nukes are too big.
Hiroshima today:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/ops/images/hiroshima-120.jpg
Posted by: Darrell   2006-04-02 20:55  

#13  For bunker busting? I don't know enough about them to have an opinion.
Posted by: lotp   2006-04-02 19:46  

#12  What about "tactical mini Nukes"?
Cummon, throw us a bone.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-04-02 19:29  

#11  amen, rwv.
Posted by: lotp   2006-04-02 18:54  

#10  Sorry, the link is http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/nukeffct/#EONW77

http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/nukeffct/#EONW77
Posted by: RWV   2006-04-02 18:53  

#9  People that suggest that someone be nuked usually have no idea what that means. Those of us who were keepers of the fire during the cold war prayed every day that we would never have to use them. The following site contains the unclass version of The Effects of Nuclear Weapons http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/nukeffct/#EONW77

This book came with a circular slide rule for calculating blast effects. If you are too young to know what a slide rule is, you probably don't know jack about nukes either. Peruse this site and think before you open your mouth the next time you are tempted to say "nuke 'em".
Posted by: RWV   2006-04-02 18:50  

#8  Al-Aska Paul has always said: shut off all power and water - message sent, then ramp up from there with building-clearing artillery moving the no-go-zone back a mile or two
Posted by: Frank G   2006-04-02 14:19  

#7  Or some Lithium in the water supply?
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-04-02 14:18  

#6  Of course, lotp. Why use nukes, when the result can be obtained so much more easily with a few chemical missiles (or whatever is used).
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-04-02 13:23  

#5  Agreed, tw. But casual talk about nuclear strikes is not the answer IMO.
Posted by: lotp   2006-04-02 13:19  

#4  I don't think harrowing up empty fields is the right answer to rocket attacks. Why should the Palestinians stop if there's no real cost to their little games?
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-04-02 12:32  

#3  Nuclear weapons in Gaza would be like burning down your house - and spreading longlasting poison on the site - to get rid of a serious termite infestation.
Posted by: lotp   2006-04-02 11:56  

#2  I really think that Israel needs to drop a few atomic bombs in Gaza. They should borrow a few from US unless US has a self defeating policy. All this tit for tat policy will never work. The barbarians will never understand the civilized language. The best way is to talk to those who survived. You will have not much to do if none survived.
Posted by: Annon   2006-04-02 10:49  

#1  "If you do not stop killing our people, we will drop hundreds of pounds of bombs on empty swatches of desert everywhere."
Posted by: Perfessor   2006-04-02 09:30  

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