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Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:00 AM

Discussing Israel/Gaza on right-wing talk radio

I had an unexpectedly substantive discussion of the Middle East and the "Islamic threat" on "The Hugh Hewitt Show" last night.

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:10 PM

Pwnage, indeed.

teh Jihad Juggernaut!!!1!


...pushing a nuclear nation "into the sea" with crude rockets and "leftist bloggers." Y'all should be ashamed. Boxcars.

-- Paul Daniel Ash

With that one post, we could erase hundreds of posts from the last week. That's pretty much the entire argument in a nutshell.

Nice work.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:10 PM

Boxcars anyone?

"...to finish the job in Gaza, once and for farking all[!]" -- lab...

Sounds like a final solution to me.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:11 PM

PDA

Don't belittle the danger. My sister pushed me into the sea once at the beach, and it was quite cold.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:12 PM

-- Wallaby "I will take my examples to the appropriate authorities."

"Thank you." -- Wallaby

Please do so before January 20th.

After that, there will, hopefully, be a real Department of Justice who will actually prosecute illegal actors.

Are you really a small kangaroo or do you just process information like one?

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:14 PM

Tank Gunnery

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2009/01/tank-gunnery.html or click sig

b writes:

"During my time in the Bundeswehr I was tank-gunner, tank-commander and a tank-platoon leader. One does not shoot a tank gun at anything by accident. One can clearly identify targets through sophisticated, magnifying optics - day and night, in rain and through fog. Reliably identifying, shooting and hitting a target at 2000-3000 meters is easy to do and can be learned in a month or so.

A modern tank is quite a secure and comfortable place unless there are capable opposition tanks or sophisticated anti-tank rockets nearby. None of this is the case in Gaza. There is little stress for the guys inside.There is therefore absolutely no justification and excuse for this:

Israel Defense Forces tank fire killed up to 40 Palestinians at a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, medical sources at two hospitals said.

...

Two tank shells exploded outside the Gaza school, spraying shrapnel on people inside and outside the building, where hundreds of Palestinians had sought refuge from fighting between Israeli soldiers and Hamas militants. In addition to the dead, several dozen people were wounded, the officials said.

40 Palestinians killed in IDF strike on UN school

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1053138.html

Those must have been HEAT rounds.

The M325 is a high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) cartridge. This cartridge is a dual-purpose munition, which defeats medium-and light armored vehicles and Incapacitates infantry by blast and fragmentation.

Israel Military Industries - 120-MM HEAT-MP-T CARTRIDGE M325 (CL 3105)

http://www.imi-israel.com/Business/ProductsFamily
/TankAmmunition.aspx?FolderID=31&docID=112

This was obvious willful mass-killing of civilians, not infantry, with superior weapons.

The Israelis claim they hit civilian targets because Hamas fighters hide there. They have never provided proof for that while Israeli troops themselves take over apartment buildings with the civilians inside and use those as firebases. But active opposition to Israeli forces from the people at the UN school is very unlikely.

It is obvious now that the Israeli campaign has the sole purpose to destruct Gaza and Gazans people. This is not about Hamas or a few stovepipes and Chinese rockets that the Islamic Jihad (sponsored by whom?) is launching into Israel.

This is industrialized killing of civilians for the "fun of it". "

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http://www.moonofalabama.org/2009/01/tank-gunnery.html

I would like to say that I have felt for a long time that Israel was killing Palestinians as some humans kill cockroaches. I fail to understand how normal people can be made to see others as sub-human enough to kill them, starve them, steal from them, humiliate them, and so forth in the manner that Israel has for 60 years. But, I see that there is no shortage of murderers that want to be in the Israel military doing the dirty work.

How do they look in the mirror in the mornings?

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:14 PM

Omooex

Winsmith

That's funny, I can't take anything you say seriously and your spelling's fine.-- omooex

That was brilliant.

I haven't laughed so hard in days, not since Pedinska outed NYUstudent's post about Paris Hilton.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:14 PM

Humanitarian Crisis

UN Advisor: "Children are hungry, cold, without electricity and running water, he said, “and above all, they’re terrified. That by any measure is a humanitarian crisis.'"

The odd presumption in this statement is that there is such a thing as a "humanitarian military conflict". When people, societies, or governments decide to "resolve" their differences by violence, they necessarily abandon any and all ethical human conduct. They have agreed to suspend all ethics and rely entirely on superior force to settle the dispute.

Under that agreement (explicitly announced by both sides in the Gaza-Israeli dispute), all "humanitarian" concerns are thrown out the window; the strongest, most cruel, most ruthless animals win the contest of physical might. Whatever marvels of military power might be employed, there can never been anything "humane" about war.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:16 PM

Don't Think So, Chris

who said about 'Wallaby': 'methinks it is just another iteration of Mr. Greenweld's favorite cut and paster.'

Realname, Satanic Jews, Billions of Bees, ElectroRobot, and several others usually uses a wierder moniker than 'Wallaby'.

If it was him/her, I would think it would be something like 'Maneating Wallaby Hash' or 'Killing Wallabies for Christ' or something like that.

If fact, there ought to be an ElectroRobot Troll Name generator (like the Palin family name generator I've seen).

I've been pretty good at sussing him/her out & this Wallaby character doesn't write like our favorite troll (IMO).

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:16 PM

Mooser uses and recommends

Google tool bar with Spel-chek. See what happens when I forget to use it? All my "arguments" lose their force. Let that be a lesson to you.

While the screams of Gazan children burning with White Phosphorus mean little to Zionists, good spelling is everything. If only I had known!

Actually, I'm a fair speller, but an uncertain typist, and I do not like the keyboard on this latest computer we scrounged up. It's a Microsoft, but it doesn't have the IBM "bent-spring" keyboard action.

Also, it gets hard to spell while laughing hysterically at "Wallaby". He better check if the AG is an anti-Semite before he brings his "hate-speech" complaints. He might find himself bundles into a boxcar and sent to one of those left-over internment camps from WW2.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:17 PM

Canuckistan Bob

But that is how The Game is played! Or maybe a better term is the cyber-war that was linked earlier.

It is the same thing EVERY time, over and over and over and over. Zionist don't want discuss the issues! They want to goad you into spending pages and pages debating how to frame the issues. In EVERY article that mentions Israel, you will see the troll army on the cyber-battlefield, their strategy being to drag you into a battle of context.

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