50 years to the day

[ex-powderbroker]

It's not, though. It's condescending. It's the same old ugly racial stereotype Arab Muslims are only capable of addressing repression through violence. Their ideas are toxic and absurd.

They’re not working on you but the “all resistance is justified” crowd has thrown any liberalism into the garbage to support them and their acts.

You can’t put Free Palestine on a poster next to a paraglider and tell me their campaign is not only working, but pretty popular.

[mcphee]

I suggest you read into what carpet bombing is. It is horrific. It is better known as saturation bombing (or very similarly, area bombing). Carpet bombing is massive amounts of unguided weapons dropped by formations of bombers to indiscriminately destroy a large area, typically a large region of a city or an entire city. If you want to know what it looks like, see Chungking 1938, Barcelona 1938, London & Coventry 1940, Dresden & Hamburg, Tokyo and most Japanese cities in 1945, and most North Korean cities during the Korean War. I've studied it extensively. I can recommend books. If you want raw history, start with the USSBS Summary Reports both for European and Pacific theaters (these total only 50 pages). If you want fiction, Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut is a place to start. Once you understand what carpet bombing is, you'll understand why it is a travesty and hyperbole to call Israel's air attacks "carpet bombing."

The most recent accusation with merit of carpet bombing was Russian bomber formations dropping 300,000lbs of unguided bombs (often cluster bombs) on Syrian cities in each bombing raid. Russian mass indiscriminate artillery bombardment of Ukranian cities is on par with area bombing in places like Mariupol.

Precision bombing is the opposite of carpet bombing. Israel uses mostly 250lb GPS guided SDBs to target a specific building or part of a specifically building, attempting to distinguish between targets, employing weapons discriminately as possible. People still die. It's terrible. FAR less die than with carpet bombing. Precision bombing is why Hamas locates their weapons and operations in the most vulnerable and dense civilian locations, because otherwise Hamas couldn't ensure civilian casualties occur too. It's horrible.



Your assumption is that they haven't already been gathering intelligence and paying people to snitch?

How are you going to "evacuate the civilians?" Remember, Hamas has forbidden this and actively blocked it. What happen when Hamas mixes in suicide bombers and shooters with the civilians?

Do you think Hamas is looking to fight a battle on an open field away from a city? Surely you know that is not the case.... so do you actually believe that going into house to house urban combat with troops, machine guns, mortars, rockets, tanks, and artillery is going to result in a lower death count and less destruction for Palestinians that precision airstrikes? Do you know anything about the last 100 years of urban combat?

I refer you to cspringsposer's reply.

Ok you win.

Sounds like you have no ideas other than what your superior officers regurgitated ideas were. Don’t think just do!

Just keep using the same GWOT tactics that have done nothing but solidify terrorist positions that the western allies are the great Satan. Keep that war machine humming because we’ve tried nothing else and we’re are all out of ideas. Keep dropping bombs that do nothing to kill ideals and zealotry. Keep collecting those dividends and massive gains by Raytheon, Lockheed, Boeing, general dynamics, and etc…., guy.

[J. Barron DeJong]

They’re not working on you but the “all resistance is justified” crowd has thrown any liberalism into the garbage to support them and their acts.

You can’t put Free Palestine on a poster next to a paraglider and tell me their campaign is not only working, but pretty popular.

I think Hamas is still pretty unpopular here.

[MultiVerse]

They’re not working on you but the “all resistance is justified” crowd has thrown any liberalism into the garbage to support them and their acts.

You can’t put Free Palestine on a poster next to a paraglider and tell me their campaign is not only working, but pretty popular.

That's because they're not much interested in improving the lives of Palestinians. If the goal of the illiberal media war is removing Jews from Israel then the Jewish response to that kind of hostility can only be "we're never leaving Israel, especially if we're not welcome with you!"

The bigger and much harder debate Israelis need to have among themselves is over what policy will usher in an era peace for Israel.

[highangle]

I see you read the Hamas charter.

LSL has made it clear that he doesn't believe that Israelis can be civilians, only valid targets. Oh but he "opposes violence." But he has absolutely avoided decrying what Hamas does as "violence." It is "justified resistance" you see? "Justified resistance" against "legitimate targets" just like "student groups" are rallying for on certain college campuses. Kind of like how Reinhard Heydrich just wanted to have a little get together, "conference" if you will, to plan "final solutions" to "Jewish problems."

Well after you decide you're going to commit to justice and liberty, you soon realize you can't in good conscience just throw the village Jew down the well every Sunday afternoon like you used to.
A more intellectualized interrogation might be, "What of the Jewish diaspora?" in the same way one might ask "What of Jim Crow?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_question

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_diaspora

[Cono Este]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CydhC...RlODBiNWFlZA==

[ötzi]

Ok you win.

Sounds like you have no ideas other than what your superior officers regurgitated ideas were. Don’t think just do!

Just keep using the same GWOT tactics that have done nothing but solidify terrorist positions that the western allies are the great Satan. Keep that war machine humming because we’ve tried nothing else and we’re are all out of ideas. Keep dropping bombs that do nothing to kill ideals and zealotry. Keep collecting those dividends and massive gains by Raytheon, Lockheed, Boeing, general dynamics, and etc…., guy.

I'm curious what your ideas are.

[Timberridge]

Maybe if we dropped tins of gummies and whatever else drugs you guys are taking in the insomnia thread, things would calm down a bit over there? Sleepy time gummies have to be cheaper than missiles.

[skaredshtles]

Maybe if we dropped tins of gummies and whatever else drugs you guys are taking in the insomnia thread, things would calm down a bit over there? Sleepy time gummies have to be cheaper than missiles.

This is the kind of outside-the-box thinking that we need...

[MontuckyFried]

I think Hamas is still pretty unpopular here.

I don't know if your statement is right or wrong, but based on WHAT exactly? Seems at least the people at all the rallies around the world are actually pretty stoked on Hamas. I haven't heard ONE person from that side of the aisle condemn Hamas. Not even our illustrious "Squad."

[mcphee]

I'm curious what your ideas are.

I’ve stated them upthread

[J. Barron DeJong]

I don't know if your statement is right or wrong, but based on WHAT exactly? Seems at least the people at all the rallies around the world are actually pretty stoked on Hamas. I haven't heard ONE person from that side of the aisle condemn Hamas. Not even our illustrious "Squad."

Maybe look outside your bubble:



https://x.com/ilhanmn/status/1710730...sR_NcRK2VkCfkg

[TBS]

Hamas needs to be weakened from within and without, militarily, politically and fiscally. That takes the Arab nations, the West, the Israelis, and the Gazans working together.

And part of it has to be neutering Iran's ability to sponsor terror. They are the #1 sponsor of terrorism in the world. That is a tough nut to crack.

A few things I think Israel can do to weaken Hamas:
- massively increase the number of work permits for Gazans. There were something like 20k issued before 10/7. And make the permits easier to get. And make it easier to cross into Israel to work, or receive medical care.

- end the blockade of Gaza. Doing more harm and plenty of munitions are still getting in.

- Agree to quit building settlements in the West Bank. And take some of the newer ones out.

- End the occupation of the West Bank, except for Golan.

- Get rid of Bibi.

On the Iran front, the more it can be isolated from the rest of the Muslim world, the better. At the same time, there’s gotta be a way to bring them into the peace tent (other than wiping Israel off the map). Wish I knew what that point was.

[skaredshtles]

Maybe look outside your bubble:



https://x.com/ilhanmn/status/1710730...sR_NcRK2VkCfkg

Yeah... well, that doesn't fit MF's narrative.

[J. Barron DeJong]

Yeah... well, that doesn't fit MF's narrative.

Sure ‘condemn’ and ‘Hamas’ appear in the same sentence. But if the words aren’t literally right next to one another, how can we really understand their meaning?

[MontuckyFried]

Maybe look outside your bubble:
https://x.com/ilhanmn/status/1710730...sR_NcRK2VkCfkg

She said in that Tweet that she (or rather her PR team who actually does her social media stuff) condemns the ACTS Hamas did that day, but never did she say she condemns Hamas themselves. And then at rallies and what not, she's been pretty outraged at Israel having the audacity to retaliate or flipping out on reporters asking questions, or flat refusing to acknowledge them.

She's absolutely, 100% pro-Palestine and 100% ANTI-Israel. She and the rest of the Squad have had quite a litany of blatantly anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist ramblings over their tenures in congress.]

EDIT: Actually, if you listen to her freaking out at that rally, she is way, WAY more outraged at Israel's actions versus Hamas' attacks on 10/7. There's no comparison. Did she ever show that level of passion for Israelis getting massacred on that tragic day? No she did not.

[J. Barron DeJong]

She said in that Tweet that she condemns the ACTS Hamas did that day, but never did she say she condemns Hamas themselves. And then at rallies and what not, she's been pretty outraged at Israel having the audacity to retaliate or flipping out on reporters asking questions.

She's absolutely, 100% pro-Palestine and 100% ANTI-Israel. She and the rest of the Squad have had quite a litany of blatantly anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist ramblings over their tenures in congress.]

EDIT: Actually, if you listen to her freaking out at that rally, she is way, WAY more outraged at Israel's actions versus Hamas' attacks on 10/7. There's no comparison. Did she ever show that level of passion for Israelis getting massacred on that tragic day? No she did not.

That tweet is pinned to the top of her account. It’s not lost to time.

[J. Barron DeJong]

[MontuckyFried]

Again, condemning the "attack" and not Hamas themselves. Try again. Calling for a ceasefire from Israel is asinine. After what went down on 10/7, they have every right to snuff out Hamas in its entirety.

[skaredshtles]

Again, condemning the "attack" and not Hamas themselves.

Y'ain't very bright, is ya?

[summit]

Sounds like you have no ideas other than what your superior officers regurgitated ideas were.

Uh, you realize I have never been in the military, right?

Just keep using the same GWOT tactics that have done nothing but solidify terrorist positions that the western allies are the great Satan.

And yet you literally called for an Israeli ground assault house to house because that is the big boy thing to do according to you...

[J. Barron DeJong]

Turns out GW supported Bin Laden, just didn’t like the Twin Towers thing:

“I appreciate so very much the members of Congress who have joined me in strongly condemning these attacks. And on behalf of the American people, I thank the many world leaders who have called to offer their condolences and assistance.”



https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archi...010911-16.html

[MultiVerse]

they have every right to snuff out Hamas in its entirety.

Even if that means ethnically cleansing Palestinians from Gaza? Even setting aside morality, folks have to see how going down that path could jeopardize Israel’s own survival.

[CarlMega]

Y'ain't very bright, is ya?

In fairness, she never released a video of herself cutting the head off a Hamas terrorist with a rusty machete.... so you never know, its open to interpretation.

[rod9301]

And so indigenous Native Palestinians make sunshine and flowers and are entirely justified executing little Jew kids because literally everything negative in their otherwise innocent peaceable joyous amicable Palestinian lives is The Jew's doing, and Jihad is the only remedy, amirite? Allahu Akbar

No, the Palestinians are not justified.

The problem is that there's really no solution to this. Israel is surrounded by 300 million arabs that hate them.

Btw, Leon uris wrote a great book about Israel and its beginnings as a state: Exodus.




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