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| Hamas' Next Move - Mass Invasion Through Israeli Wall |
| 2008-01-25 |
| Debka - Hamas PM Ismail HaniyaÂ’s adviser Ahdmad Yousef announced Thursday, Jan. 24, that the terrorist organizationÂ’s next step after overrunning Egyptian northern Sinai was a march by half a million Palestinians from Gaza through the blocked Erez crossing to Israel to "recover their towns," like Ashkelon. Ashkelon is due North, just up the coast from Gaza. Sounds like an excellent opportunity to use the directed energy system against large numbers of people. See how fast they can return to Gaza. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #13 The Byzantine's had an idea once.. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-01-25 15:43 |
| #12 Move up the extra HMG ammo... |
| Posted by: Ebbomolet Trotsky1353 2008-01-25 15:04 |
| #11 A claymore in every square yard starting about 10 yards from the wall, and continuing for about 50 yards, backed up by gatling type guns, and a few tanks with flame throwers. Then zero in a dozen artillary pieces at the Gaza staging areas and await further orders. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2008-01-25 14:05 |
| #10 OK, so "combat engineers" is a bit of an oversell for "mooks with landmines", but what else would you call these guys? It's a kind of combat engineering, if a rather inbred specimen thereof. "Gunmen" sounds preposterous in context. To be honest, I'm less worried about the zap guns killing the children and puppies than I am about how many of 'em will get trampled or crushed in the chaos once all of their elders start feeling that all-over hot-foot feeling. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-01-25 13:20 |
| #9 Hamas combat engineers I howled, yes I did. Human Bangalore Torpedoes? Maybe that's why you never see a really tall shaheed, they're selected out for the Hamas combat engineers. |
| Posted by: Thomas Woof 2008-01-25 11:53 |
| #8 I think Mitch is write - the IDF will use snipers against the bulldozers. If that dont work, they'll use airpower against the bull dozers. I would be very surprised to see the wall between Gaza and Israel breached. While the Egyptians had domestic reasons to NOT play rough with Hamas, Israel has strong domestic political reasons to play quite rough. People may weep for kids, there'll be no weeping for Hamas engineers. |
| Posted by: Dopey Flotle8127 2008-01-25 11:20 |
| #7 Dang, Cloluting - whatchoo got against puppies? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-01-25 10:12 |
| #6 What happens if it turns out to fry little kids and puppies in large-scale crowd situations? B-O-N-U-S !!! |
| Posted by: Cloluting the Elder7939 2008-01-25 09:14 |
| #5 Nope. 2 rather different systems get this moniker. The original DEW are high energy laser-based systems, either tactical (against rockets, mortars & artillery attacks) or strategic (ballistic missile defense, especially the boost stage surveillance & destruction of ICBMs). But I'm guessing what 'moose has in mind are the crowd control systems which use low energy waves to induce subdermal pain. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-01-25 09:05 |
| #4 Is directed energy systems the new euphemism for CBU 71? |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-01-25 08:59 |
| #3 They have tested the heck out of the system, and it fits within the realm of less than lethal. However, even a perfect weapon may not work if it is executed improperly or with poor timing. That is why Israel has to be on the ball for this. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-01-25 08:37 |
| #2 Snipers to take out the Hamas combat engineers before they finish emplacing the explosives sounds like a safer bet. Not sure I'd want to test something like the directed energy system in such a high-publicity environment. What happens if it turns out to fry little kids and puppies in large-scale crowd situations? |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-01-25 08:28 |
| #1 If Israel was smart they would bait them in, leave a section of the barrier seemingly unguarded, let them break through, and then spring the trap with an ambush of a thousand rabid liberal lawers, oh, wait I mean machine guns, I'm not that cruel. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-01-25 07:46 |