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2011-08-21 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Palestinian armed groups shower Israeli settlements with missiles

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Posted by Fred 2011-08-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: Hamas

#1 Time for another Israeli incursion into Gaza, which, following massive rocket attacks in 2008, stabilized the situation for three years.

Posted by Ralphs son Johnnie 2011-08-21 01:48|| 2011-08-21 01:48|| Front Page Top

#2 One word solution = DAISYCUTTERS
Drop a few near the border area where the rockets are coming from, and tell 'em if even one more rocket lands in Israel a daisycutter an hour will be dropped on their civilian population centers. Put a stop to these rockets real quick.
Let the liberals f**ks and Israel haterz whine.
They are going to anyhow.
So give 'em something to whine about.

Posted by Mikey Hunt 2011-08-21 04:35|| 2011-08-21 04:35|| Front Page Top

#3 The security cabinet in Israel has said several times that there is no desire for a Cast Lead 2. There is consensus for an extended aerial campaign hitting 3 or 4 targets per day.

Similarly, it is thought that Hamas which could launch about 10-20 longer range rockets/day (200+ short range) does not want to provoke a Cast Lead 2 either. In fact there is some suspicion that Hamas would welcome enough Israeli strikes to wipe out the PRC military wing.

btw, Salah Eddin means "rightness of the believers" or something similar.

Posted by Lord Garth 2011-08-21 07:32|| 2011-08-21 07:32|| Front Page Top

#4 And the Obama administration said ... crickets ...

Posted by Cincinnatus Chili 2011-08-21 09:36|| 2011-08-21 09:36|| Front Page Top

#5 ...Myself, I'm thinkin' that the Paleostinians are under a lotta pressure from Hezbollah and the Iranians to start something serious with the Israelis so as to keep them out of any action against Syria. The trouble is that the Paleos know they'll get their butts handed to them if they do, so it might not get much worse than this.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2011-08-21 09:38|| 2011-08-21 09:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Mikey DAISY CUTTERS don't get you the whiskey. I suspect you mean MOAB or perhaps ARCLIGHT or F-150 HDShortRangeNoGlideBomb.

Posted by S 2011-08-21 09:40|| 2011-08-21 09:40|| Front Page Top

#7 a daisycutter an hour will be dropped on their civilian population centers.

Hurray for massacring civilians! History shows that always works! Just like in Syria! You win the cunt of the day award, Mikey Hunt.

Posted by gromky 2011-08-21 09:56|| 2011-08-21 09:56|| Front Page Top

#8 And you win the trasy-assed mouth award of the day, gromky.

Posted by Barbara 2011-08-21 09:59|| 2011-08-21 09:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes Lord Garth. Calm steady heads hopefully will prevail,logic versus emotion.

Posted by Dale 2011-08-21 10:19|| 2011-08-21 10:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Hurray for massacring civilians! History shows that always works! Just like in Syria! You win the cunt of the day award, Mikey Hunt.

Actually, it worked for Hafez Assad. Of course, he killed ten times the number of people. The PLA seemed to have suppressed counter-revolutionary activity pretty effectively via the massacre of over a million landlords right after their victory in 1949. 60 years later, the Chinese army is still called the PLA, and rulers of China are the direct descendants of those who ordered and carried out the massacre.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-08-21 11:33|| 2011-08-21 11:33|| Front Page Top

#11 Zhang Fei

Please! No more disparaging comments regarding our Chinese masters. Wal-mart is down slightly from it's Friday, 2:00 high.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-08-21 11:44|| 2011-08-21 11:44|| Front Page Top

#12 The Chinese own 10% of the US debt.

The Brazilians own maybe a percent less. They haven't said anything.

Then again, Brazil isn't a Han-dominated nation (yet) with imperial ambitions.

Posted by Pappy 2011-08-21 13:15|| 2011-08-21 13:15|| Front Page Top

#13 The Paleos have been too clever by half with upgrading their missile systems. When they were blindly launching their homemade bottle rockets into the desert, the main impact was the PR value, something the Israelis could essentially ignore. Better systems means actually damaging their targets, a sure fire (heh) way to provoke the wrath of the IDF.

Posted by SteveS 2011-08-21 15:50|| 2011-08-21 15:50|| Front Page Top

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