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| Ashkelon man builds homemade missile |
| 2008-03-06 |
| Ashkelon resident Moshe Nissimpor decided that the best way to halt rocket fire from Gaza - in light of what he terms the government's failure to do so - is some vigilante justice. Nissimpor developed a homemade 200-millimeter ballistic missile which he planned to launch from Ashkelon into the Gaza Strip. "From this day onwards, we will push back to the stone age every place which dares shoot missiles into Israel's sovereign territory," he said Wednesday. "It is time the world understood Israelis' lives are not expendable." "I'm afraid this is the only language the Palestinians understand, and this is the language in which we'll speak to them. I have many Gazan Palestinian friends who live as Hamas hostages. Once we bring an end to the rocket fire, Gaza's residents will also live in peace," he said. Nissimpor arrived at the Ashkelon Municipality building with the missile painted black and lettered "to Hamas, from the residents of Ashkelon" in red, and was planning to launch it. Ashkelon residents gathered round to cheer him on and protest the government's conduct, but at the eleventh hour, police stopped him from firing the missile and seized it. "I wish there were more 'crazies' like me in Israel," Nissimpor said as the crowd was dispersed by the police. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #19 Feel free 'too' do it on your own, sinse. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-03-06 18:27 |
| #18 i'm with pebbles maybe rantburg should take a fund up too fund this just in larger numbers. |
| Posted by: sinse 2008-03-06 18:12 |
| #17 I remember some years ago (Quite a few actualy) a national geographic special about an african tribe who made and set off homemade rockets as celebration, (Forget just what) these were simply five foot long bamboo tubes with black powder packed inside by pounding it down with a wooden "Fencepost" then lighting it, worked just fine, sort of a super "Bottle Rocket". |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-03-06 16:42 |
| #16 Publish his plans on the internet, Gaza ceases to exist (Except as rubble), problem solved. Government won't do it, the citizens will. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-03-06 16:21 |
| #15 Israel is also a civilized country and will not allow unguided rockets fired at random into civilian areas. If that rocket was launched and did injure an innocent person, Mr Nissimpor would be facing jail time. The Palestinian authority on the other hand... |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-03-06 14:27 |
| #14 No doubt if he had fired it the UN and MSM would be out in full force demonizing him for doing it -- all the while ignoring the rockets Hamas has been firing for years. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-03-06 13:30 |
| #13 Gasoline, soap flakes, pure sodium, and a LARGE catapult. Set the catapult up in Sderot and start lobbing 55gal drums of mixture back every time a Qassam is launched against the village. The people of Gaza will either get the message or lose everything they have. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-03-06 13:08 |
| #12 If I recall correctly, Israel has more physicists per capita than anywhere else in the world. One wonders about Mr. Nissimpor's background, if what he's built is not a Kassem but a ballistic missile. It may be that the police turned his effort over to an Army supplier for mass production. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-06 12:09 |
| #11 Sounds like a publicity stunt if he went down to city hall and waited for a crowd to gather before he launched it. Notice, however, that the cops merely confiscated the missile and did not arrest the guy. Next time he should just build it quietly in his garage and launch it quietly from his back yard. Then share the blue print and assembly instructions with a few of his friends and neighbors. They've gotta be better quality than the Qassams. If the cops ever come around to ask about it just tell them it's a "hobby". |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque (aka Ebbang Uluque6305) 2008-03-06 11:41 |
| #10 Now, I'm all for firing back, but vigilantism is NOT the way. Once an Intifada style campaign commences within our borders, and our gubbmint persists in telling us "Nothing to see here folks, no evidence of terrorism, move along!" We'll see how long you continue to reject vigilantism. |
| Posted by: Phitle Untervehr4184 2008-03-06 10:11 |
| #9 vigilantism is NOT the way. But it is a start. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-03-06 09:48 |
| #8 Rob when your goverment is doing shit to protect your family... |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2008-03-06 09:17 |
| #7 It's not that the Israeli police are "on the side of Hamas", it's that Israel is a sovereign nation committed to maintaining its sovereignty. They cannot allow independent use of force against a foreign nation from their soil. Now, I'm all for firing back, but vigilantism is NOT the way. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2008-03-06 08:41 |
| #6 Can I pay for sponsorship? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2008-03-06 08:13 |
| #5 That would have made a great YouTube video if he actually launched it off into the strip. I wonder how those palestinian cockroaches would like a homemade Heebie rocket barrage? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-03-06 07:16 |
| #4 I like this nick, think I'll keep it. Somebody get Moshe some gift cards for Estes Rockets. Mean Machine™ Product Number: 1295 The Mean Machine is back and now it's meaner than ever! Now you can fly it on Estes E engines and soar over 900 feet (274m) high! Won't carry much payload, but pack it with bacon bits - an environmentally friendly dirty bomb. |
| Posted by: Menhadden Snogum6713 2008-03-06 07:11 |
| #3 You fire that thing again, and you're in some serious trouble, mister! :-) |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-03-06 01:42 |
| #2 Gadzooks! Even the Israeli police are on the side of Hamas. The least they could have done is let him off with a warning, and let him keep the missile. |
| Posted by: Rambler in California 2008-03-06 01:21 |
| #1 Next time just build it and fire it, keep your mouth shut. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2008-03-06 01:03 |