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2005-09-24 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel launches missile strike on Hamas, closes borders

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Posted by Jackal 2005-09-24 14:47|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Many Gazans also had hoped for a return to calm after Israel's pullout and might not be willing to tolerate a new era of airstrikes

ROFLMAO - I mean uh oh.

Posted by Shipman 2005-09-24 16:42|| 2005-09-24 16:42|| Front Page Top

#2 If Gazans wanted a "return to calm", a Hamas military parade and rocket attacks on Israel were not their best choices. Ariel Sharon's Gaza strategy is working -- the target is provoking, sealed, Israeli-free, and ready for obliteration. Fire away.

Posted by Darrell 2005-09-24 17:39|| 2005-09-24 17:39|| Front Page Top

#3 If a bon on openly displaying weapons is considered a step on the roadmap then we need to reboot Mapquest. I think think this path is a cul-de-sac.

Posted by Super Hose 2005-09-24 19:28|| 2005-09-24 19:28|| Front Page Top

#4 This is what could be called a standard tactic: counter-battery fire. The idea is to get an artillery round in the air as soon as radar pick up an incoming rocket, triangulating for its launch point.
At first it will take out one or two slower rocket crews. Then it will take out the launcher. The bad guyz will then surround the launcher with victims, hoping for sympathy against the c-b fires, but they will run out of victims real quick.
The c-b fires, as they become less effective, may turn into time-on-target fires from several batteries at once, crunching anything within 20 yards of the target. At *that* point, the locals start objecting to someone setting up a rocket launcher in their neighborhood.

As long as the Israelis keep up a quid pro quo exchange, they can laugh off any international condemnation. And, of course, just because they use c-b doesn't mean they can't use other tactics at the same time.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-09-24 20:10|| 2005-09-24 20:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Anonymouse - spot on. In the first Gulf War, the Iraqi artillery crews typically were able to get off one round before they were destroyed by counter-battery fire. That was almost fifteen years ago and counter-battery tech has undoubtably gotten better.

Posted by DMFD 2005-09-24 21:32|| 2005-09-24 21:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Gee, y'mean the're going to be held collectively responsible for the acts of their "nation"?

What a concept.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-09-24 22:08|| 2005-09-24 22:08|| Front Page Top

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