Posted on 12/20/2008 2:19:24 AM PST by Cindy
Residents of Negev communities awoken by renewed rocket fire this morning as Palestinian groups launch four Qassams from northern Gaza towards Israel. No injuries or damage reported. Gaza sources report several casualties in IDF strike short time later
Residents of Israel’s Gaza-vicinity communities awoke to the sound of rockets landing near their homes on Saturday morning. In all four Qassam rockets were fired by Palestinian groups towards the western Negev: Two of the rockets landed in open areas in the Eshkol Regional Council, one landed in the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council and the fourth landed just north of Gaza.
There were no reports of injury or damage. Since the expiration of the lull between Israel and the armed groups in Hamas-ruled Gaza there have been 9 rockets fired.
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Good on ya, IDF!
Technical question: how accurate are these Qassam missiles? Are they guided by any “smarts”, or do they sorta light them off like fireworks and bottle-rockets and have them land in random directions at whatever they hit?
(I suspect the latter.)
OPINION:
Watching videos online; I don’t see any “smarts” when it comes to those firing the qassams.
I’m not an explosives expert, so I can’t tell you if there are more than 1 type of qassam/kassam.
Cheers, Cindy!
Merry Christmas / Happy Hanukkah to you and your family, from DownUnder NZ!
This is a loser war mentality. You don’t just respond to attacks you take the initiative.
Can you just imagine WWII Stalingrad, Stalin is on the phone with his general on the ground.
-Comrade Stalin, today the Germans fired ten shells at our side!
-OK general, we will respond by firing ten shells at their side, that will show them!
-Brilliant move comrade Stalin! Do we continue feeding the German invaders and giving them gas, water, and electricity?
-Yes general, wouldn’t want to get any angry letters from UN or a negative editorial from The Guardian. Besides, the poor fellas are hungry, if we don’t feed them who will?
Here is an idea to stop the rocket fire; create a hostage pool of captured terrorists. Publish their names and execute one every time a rocket is fired. Bury them in pig skins so they can’t go to heaven. Bet you the rockets would stop pretty fast.
So they’re a little bit like the old V1 “Doodlebug” from WW-II except without the German engineering...
Thanks, mate! And Merry Christmas / Happy Hanukkah from DownUnder NZ!
Thank you F15 Eagle.
A blessed Christmas to you and your family DieHard the Hunter.
> Here is an idea to stop the rocket fire; create a hostage pool of captured terrorists. Publish their names and execute one every time a rocket is fired. Bury them in pig skins so they can’t go to heaven. Bet you the rockets would stop pretty fast.
The Germans used to be heavily into reprisals such as this during the Second World War. As a tactic it didn’t really work too well: all that it tended to do was make the partizans angrier and more bloodthirsty.
IMO the only way to fight and win a war is to defeat your enemy decisively, so that they wouldn’t dream of ever attacking you again. That hasn’t really been done ever since WW-II. It needs to be done again.
What do you do when the enemy is not a military force, but a resistant population? If every Hamas, Fatah, and Islamic Jihad member dropped dead this second, the terror organizations would be back to full strength in a year.
What exactly would you call a “decisive” victory against Gaza? One that would ensure they will never again raise a hand against Israel. Not a rhetorical question, I want to know what such a victory would entail and how it can be achieved.
We should give the IAF all the retired Navy F-14s that were replaced by the upgraded F-18s.
But Obama will probably give them to Iran and Syria (Iran,under the Shah,bought many from us anyway but couldn’t get spare parts after the country turned on us thus grounding them)in the interest of “fairness.”
ANZACS!
My late father fought with them in the South Pacific during WWII.
Like the IDF,great warriors and good allies.
Can’t say much for the wimpy liberal Aussie government however.
> What do you do when the enemy is not a military force, but a resistant population? If every Hamas, Fatah, and Islamic Jihad member dropped dead this second, the terror organizations would be back to full strength in a year.
Sorta like Japan in the Second World War: invading them would come at a terrible cost. Ergo, the only answer was to make the price too hi, by bombing Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
I hesitate to say “nuke ‘em” because that is used alot here on the FRee Republic in an only semi-serious way. And anyway I am not sure that nuclear weaponry would be necessary.
The same effect might be achieved by invasion, occupation and wholesale deportation of the entire population elsewhere. It worked for the Babylonians and the Assyrians, maybe it is time to dust that tactic off.
> What exactly would you call a “decisive” victory against Gaza?
Enemies crushed with no capability of continuing the conflict.
> One that would ensure they will never again raise a hand against Israel.
Not an easy question at all. There is alot of appeal to simple answers, such as loading captured terrorists into catapults and firing them back into Gaza, like the Roman Army used to do to pacify conquered populations, but I’m not convinced that would work with Jihadi types: they would probably enjoy the (short) ride-before-the-splat.
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