Whovian (1,416 posts)
The Israelis are really lucky the people of Gaza don't have the same military strength.
This shit is getting pretty sick.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021848855
JaneyVee (1,257 posts)
1. Gaza doesn't even have a military. No army, navy, air force, or marines.
Fozzledick (1,962 posts)
21. They do seem to have an awful lot of artillery rockets
as well as a large armed militia.
Of course they prefer random terror attacks on civilians to direct military engagement.
hack89 (17,116 posts)
24. The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Martyrs Brigades would disagree with youQuoteThe brigades have a substantial weapons inventory of light automatic weapons and grenades, improvised rockets, mortars, bombs, suicide belts and explosives. The Brigades fire Qassam rockets and mortar shells into Israel on a regular basis. The group engages in military style training, including training which take place in Iran and Syria on a range of weapons designed to inflict significant casualties on civilian and military targets.
While the number of members is known only to the Brigades leadership, in 2011 Israel estimated that the Brigades have a core of several hundred members who receive military style training, including training in Iran and Syria. Additionally, the brigades have an estimated 10,000 operatives "of varying degrees of skill and professionalism" who are members of the internal security forces, Hamas and their supporters. These operatives can be expected to reinforce the Brigades in an "emergency situation".
edhopper (6,169 posts)
2. Israel has faced opponents with similar strength
they are very well equipped and trained for it.
What is your solution to having rockets fired on your cities?
I think there is an eventual diplomatic solution here (as Camp David solved things with Egypt)
But not as long as Hamas doesn't want one.
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:46 AM
cali (75,857 posts)
3. It's clear that Israel doesn't want one either.
HappyMe (7,202 posts)
5. I agree.
It makes me sad to think that this will never end. I wish that there was a way to force peace there.
Fozzledick (1,962 posts)
26. Israel has defeated much larger military forces before.
In 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973.
That's why Iran prefers to pay Palestinians to launch terror attacks against Israeli civilians rather than risk their own military in a direct confrontation.
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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 10:12 AM
Laurian (558 posts)
13. They barely have the basic necessities of life, let alone military assets. n/t Y'all ain't to bright, are ya honey?
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Response to Laurian (Reply #13)
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 10:24 AM
hack89 (17,117 posts)
18. Yet they choose to smuggle in thousands of rockets instead of those necessities. nt
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Response to hack89 (Reply #18)
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 10:51 AM
Laurian (558 posts)
30. In a civilized world, why should any people have to smuggle in food?
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Response to Laurian (Reply #30)
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 10:54 AM
hack89 (17,117 posts)
33. In a civilized world, why would any people choose weapons over food? nt Remember who you're talking about, hacknumbers.
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:46 AM
Whovian (1,416 posts)
4. Compare the death toll.
Response to Whovian (Original post)
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 10:12 AM
Laurian (558 posts)
13. They barely have the basic necessities of life, let alone military assets. n/
I think there is an eventual diplomatic solution here (as Camp David solved things with Egypt)
Since the Camp David Accords in 1979, the United States has sent Cairo more than $1 billion annually in military aid, much of it because Egypt was seen as a lynchpin to peace in the Middle East.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2012/09/1-billion-a-year-in-military-a.html
In fiscal 2009, the United States spent about $1.5 billion on aid to Egypt, 86 percent of it military aid.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41317259/ns/politics/t/what-united-states-has-stake-egypt/
Fozzledick (1,962 posts)
21. They do seem to have an awful lot of artillery rockets
as well as a large armed militia.
Of course they prefer random terror attacks on civilians to direct military engagement.
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b26/flagator/market-gaza.jpg)
Yeah, right. Goggle Gaza Strip Market...
Oh if you mispell Palestinian it comes out as Pale Stain on iphone :-)
Those damn Israelis! Look at all the land they have compared to those poor, poorArabsPalestinians!
(http://www.barrybrumfield.com/images/arabs_vs_israel_map.jpg)
The Israelis are really lucky
They don't call them God's Chosen People for nothing.
I am reminded of a news story from a few years ago. A Palestinian woman was badly burned in a cooking accident, and had been treated multiple times at a Jewish hospital...for free. The woman was stopped at the border on her last scheduled trip to that hospital because she was carrying a bomb. She admitted that she was intending to blow up the hospital that had healed her. :mental:
With unique access to a Qassam rocket-launching team in the Gaza strip and the Israeli helicopter-pilots hunting them down, this archive report offers a rare insight into the tactics used on both sides today.
Aged 11 Abu Haroun threw rocks at Israeli tanks; now he is crafting rockets to launch at Israeli bases. "Look, they are usually blacked out, so you know where they are", he explains as he demonstrates how Google Maps has become central to their guerrilla strategy. An Israeli pilot sent to destroy these men argues, "I'm on a rescue mission", protecting children from "terrorists". A striking look at the grassroots of an intractable conflict.
Love to see the DUmbshits e'splain this pic:(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/178982_496607190373551_1570472966_n.jpg)
Yes. Those are those rabid, bloodthirsty, Arab-hating Israeli soldiers, shielding Palestinian children from Hamas-launched rocket attack(s).
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b26/flagator/market-gaza.jpg)
Yeah, right. Goggle Gaza Strip Market...
Damn those tomatoes far left look better than anything I saw all summer. Love big ole beefsteak tomatoes.
I just don't understand why Jews vote for this Israel hating president.
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Yeah, and the bear is so very "lucky" the fish doesn't have as much strength either, otherwise, the rusults might turn out different, right? Uh-huh.
As my pop used to say; Wish in one hand, shit in the other. See which one fills up faster.
Netanyahu himself was in the IDF, and was a team leader of an elite special forces unit. He was also in the War of Attricion. The man knows his military stuff. Now it's time for you Palestine sympathisers to sit back, and watch "teh joooooos" go through the rag head, kid killing, clit slitting, woman beating, "honor" killing, cowardly scum get run through like a knife through hot butter.
See, this is now what you get when you get radical to the nth degree, DUmmies. Take a lesson.
Maybe they shouldn't have commited the atrocities they've commited the last couple decades...
Mmm-hmm.
And it won't save them...
Y'know, there are some sensible people in DUmmieland. I like to call them "The 1%." :-)
Bitter old vermontese twunt shows up. Of course she'd be dyed in the wool for terrorists. You don't earn such prominance as she has being intelligent.
:lmao: Because if there's a way to get to peace, it is to force it. MAKE it happen!
Tell me, DUmmie, do you feel that way about sex too?
The Pale Stains want Israel because none of the muslim countries want them.
edit because my hands are too tired to type
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