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2005-09-17 Israel-Palestine

Russia Shelves Plan to Supply 50 APCs to Palestinians

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Posted by Fred 2005-09-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I dunno.
The Israeli army could do with some live fire exercises.

Posted by john 2005-09-17 07:26|| 2005-09-17 07:26|| Front Page Top

#2 50 industrial sized preassure cookers, are a lot of preasure cookers.That's what the Isrealies will turn them into.

Posted by raptor 2005-09-17 08:30|| 2005-09-17 08:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Well if the Paleos used them to clean up Hamas and Hiz they would be acceptable but if used for agression against Israel they would be destroyed.I don't see a problem wiht APC's they certainly are not tanks.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-09-17 14:38|| 2005-09-17 14:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Given just how well Soviet armor has survived in combat of late maybe Putin ought to supply them with 500 APCs

Posted by Cheaderhead 2005-09-17 14:54|| 2005-09-17 14:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Russia has shelved a plan to give the Palestinians 50 armored personnel carriers after Middle East peace brokers told Moscow it could harm efforts to stabilize the region,

No way in hell could anything including Nukeing the area "Harm Efforts to Stabalize the region"
Accept that it's as lawless as possible already, and move on.
I think far more likely the Russians figured they wouldn't get paid for these 50 APC's.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-09-17 15:37|| 2005-09-17 15:37|| Front Page Top

#6 This isn't such a bad idea. They might be giving these things out, but APC's need parts and maintenance, neither of which the Russians will supply for free. Every dollar spent on APC's is a dollar less spent on suicide bombers. Plus - APC's aren't cheap to maintain. I find it weird that Israel would object to this.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-09-17 15:56|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-09-17 15:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Armored car-bombs, ZF.

Posted by Grunter 2005-09-17 16:39|| 2005-09-17 16:39|| Front Page Top

#8 No way in hell could anything including Nukeing the area "Harm Efforts to Stabalize the region"

Hush.

Posted by Shipman 2005-09-17 18:02|| 2005-09-17 18:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Armored car-bombs

Or upgraded to equivalent of light tanks.

Posted by Pappy 2005-09-17 19:44|| 2005-09-17 19:44|| Front Page Top

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