Why the Israeli Military Response in Gaza is Bullshit [Updated]
By Larry Johnson on December 29, 2008 at 12:45 PM in Current Affairs
(Bumped up by Susan from 3:00 a.m. See also: Larry’s earlier story, “The First War of 2009,” and the latest videos I posted last night.)
This post is for thinking people. I am not saying–I EMPHASIZE FOR YOU WHO HAVE A READING DISABILITY–that Israel must simply take the rocket and mortar strikes without responding. But we, the United States, have some experience with this in Iraq. When terrorists fired off mortars/rockets at U.S. positions what did we do? Bomb the hell out of a neighborhood in Baghdad or al Anbar? No!! Ever hear of “counter battery strikes?”
We have the technology–as do the Israelis–to quickly pinpoint the source of a rocket/mortar launch and hit the target. The United States did not go into the cities of Iraq with airstrikes and wipe out entire neighborhoods because some assholes with mortars were trying to stir things up or kill our soldiers.
Here is how professionals do it:
Here’s a more graphic view of what can happen to an unwitting terrorist.
Sorry, but the Israeli military is acting like a bunch of pathetic thugs rather than conduct themselves with professionalism and skill. You do not just kill Palestinians because you can. You kill the assholes shooting the rockets/missiles. Israel has the means to do that but clearly prefers killing large numbers of Palestinians. Sorry folks, but thems the facts.
UPDATE: Here you get to see some video footage of Israeli strikes on “terrorist” targets in Gaza. Unlike the footage above of actual terrorists in Iraq being hit, the Israeli video simply declares a target a terrorist target and then blows it up. Note the first portion, which purportedly is a HAMAS PATROL BOAT.
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