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2009-01-16 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by Thraimble Chons2590 2009-01-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 Apparently they were not trained well enough in infantry...

Posted by Zebulon Thrains9999 2009-01-16 00:21|| 2009-01-16 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Awwwwwwwwww.

Ain't that just too bad.

NOT!

Say hello to your buddy Sad-ass in HELL, ya' losers.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-16 00:27|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2009-01-16 00:27|| Front Page Top

#3 With 100 effectives, wouldn't it be closer to a reinforced rifle company than a battalion?

Posted by badanov 2009-01-16 00:49|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2009-01-16 00:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Apparently those little plastic keys they got from the Iranians are defective.

Posted by gorb 2009-01-16 01:19|| 2009-01-16 01:19|| Front Page Top

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-01-16 01:50|| 2009-01-16 01:50|| Front Page Top

#6 More like a company than a battalion, and a small company at that. But a battalion sounds better for propaganda. They could have called it a brigade even.

Posted by buwaya 2009-01-16 02:19|| 2009-01-16 02:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Destroyed? It's not like Hamas to fight to the last man. Why would they stand and fight instead of running away and hiding in a hospital?

Posted by gromky 2009-01-16 03:16|| 2009-01-16 03:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Graveyard sounds the right term now.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-01-16 04:01|| 2009-01-16 04:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Destroyed? It's not like Hamas to fight to the last man. Why would they stand and fight instead of running away and hiding in a hospital?

You can plan for it.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-01-16 05:01|| 2009-01-16 05:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Nice work, IDF.

Posted by Mike 2009-01-16 07:54|| 2009-01-16 07:54|| Front Page Top

#11 I just read another article last night that discussed iran threatening to pull the plug on weapons and money if they quit fighting. Maybe the HamAss leadership is getting a little desperate.
Maybe they thought they were on some kind of glorious suicide mission or something.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2009-01-16 07:56|| 2009-01-16 07:56|| Front Page Top

#12 If the Joooos would fight using flaming hoops, the Brave Lions of Paleo Islam would just jump right through, like in their training

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-01-16 08:08|| 2009-01-16 08:08|| Front Page Top

#13 Yes, Virginia, "there is a Santa Claus".

Posted by hammerhead 2009-01-16 08:57|| 2009-01-16 08:57|| Front Page Top

#14 Hmmm, flaming hoops. Suppose you dug a really deep, deep hole right on the Gaza border, surrounded it with flaming hoops and just sat back and watched.

Posted by SteveS 2009-01-16 09:01|| 2009-01-16 09:01|| Front Page Top

#15 The terms "Elite" and "Special" oftentimes have their downsides. Better to blend in and remain nameless.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-01-16 09:43|| 2009-01-16 09:43|| Front Page Top

#16 Another "elite" Arab unit? "Elite" must mean something else over there.

Posted by tu3031 2009-01-16 09:49|| 2009-01-16 09:49|| Front Page Top

#17 Gaza: Where the Elite Meet to Delete.

Posted by Grunter 2009-01-16 10:00|| 2009-01-16 10:00|| Front Page Top

#18 An elite Arab unit is about as well trained as a second world recruit right out of basic training.

The American trained units in Iraq are proving to be an exception to the rule though.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-01-16 10:04|| 2009-01-16 10:04|| Front Page Top

#19 I take it that The "IRAN" battalion (company, brigade, whatever) is what passed for the varsity on the other side. Their best laid to rest.

It nice to remind the teeming throngs of wannabees that NOBODY has their back; and the hanger-ons that there is NOTHING to hang on to.

Posted by Minister of funny walks 2009-01-16 10:10|| 2009-01-16 10:10|| Front Page Top

#20 Yay! More martyr posters. Gaza economic activity picks up 50%.

Posted by ed 2009-01-16 10:26|| 2009-01-16 10:26|| Front Page Top

#21 The American trained units in Iraq are proving to be an exception to the rule though.

That worries me sometimes. Though it would worry me more in Afghanistan.

Posted by KBK 2009-01-16 10:46|| 2009-01-16 10:46|| Front Page Top

#22 gromky nailed it. Smells like taqiyah to me.

Posted by lotp 2009-01-16 10:47|| 2009-01-16 10:47|| Front Page Top

#23 A company minus. (CO-)

Posted by Andy Ulusoque aka Broadhead6 2009-01-16 10:50|| 2009-01-16 10:50|| Front Page Top

#24 but i thought only civilians were being killed

Posted by rabid whitetail 2009-01-16 10:58|| 2009-01-16 10:58|| Front Page Top

#25 When I glanced at the headline before coffee I thought it said effete, not elite.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-01-16 11:15|| 2009-01-16 11:15|| Front Page Top

#26 Rest in pieces.

Posted by gorb 2009-01-16 11:33|| 2009-01-16 11:33|| Front Page Top

#27 NS, knowing the culture, same thing.

Posted by Andy Ulusoque aka Broadhead6 2009-01-16 12:07|| 2009-01-16 12:07|| Front Page Top

#28 "The 7th Flying Carpet Batallion"

They died with their curly-toed slippers on....

Posted by Black Charlie Crusosing8494 2009-01-16 12:18|| 2009-01-16 12:18|| Front Page Top

#29

Posted by Sonny Ebbeamp1305 2009-01-16 14:51|| 2009-01-16 14:51|| Front Page Top

#30 I'm glad the IDF helped the Hamas units achieve their hearts desire - martyrdom. Win-win if you ask me. More of the same please.

Posted by DMFD 2009-01-16 18:21|| 2009-01-16 18:21|| Front Page Top

#31 The 'Snack' photo is too oblique for me. But it's been a long day.

Posted by Tiny Thusomp9318 2009-01-16 18:33|| 2009-01-16 18:33|| Front Page Top

#32 ~~Allah Ackbar~~ Allen's Snack Bar, Tiny. ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-16 18:52|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2009-01-16 18:52|| Front Page Top

#33 From another report:

Two captured terrorists interviewed by Maariv/NRG say that Hamas was not expecting Israel's response to the escalation in missile attacks on Israeli targets that preceded Operation Cast Lead. One of them, a 52-year-old victim of a premature detonation who had already done time in an Israeli jail, said, "Hamas took a gamble. We thought, at worst Israel will come and do something from the air - something superficial. They'll come in and go out. We never thought that we would reach the point where fear will swallow the heart and the feet will want to flee. You [Israel] are fighting like you fought in '48. What got into you all of a sudden?"

The second terrorist, a 21-year-old, said Hamas brought order to Gaza, but also brought fear. He noted that it was dangerous in Gaza for non-Hamas members, citing an instance of his being beaten and another in which he saw a friend killed when he went to get gas. "Now they're all gone," he said. "There have been no Hamasniks in the streets since the start of the campaign."

Awwwwwwwwww - da' poor babeez....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-16 19:00|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2009-01-16 19:00|| Front Page Top

#34 "There have been no Hamasniks in the streets since the start of the campaign."

Kinda tough for some of these people to wrap their poor, feeble brains around the concept that the Juice are their liberators.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-01-16 19:10|| 2009-01-16 19:10|| Front Page Top

#35 Iran demanding that they fight; yes that would explain it. Out of character otherwise. How better than to throw into the grinder Iran's own troops, the better for Hamas to say, "we tried your way, now give us more money next time".

Posted by gromky 2009-01-16 19:51|| 2009-01-16 19:51|| Front Page Top

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