On a happy note, while the acid reflux has me up at 2:33 A.M. on an IDF base in the Negev, Israel, there is the soothing sound of 250 lb. JDAMs in the distance pounding ham ass in Gaza.
On a happy note, while the acid reflux has me up at 2:33 A.M. on an IDF base in the Negev, Israel, there is the soothing sound of 250 lb. JDAMs in the distance pounding ham ass in Gaza.
On a happy note, while the acid reflux has me up at 2:33 A.M. on an IDF base in the Negev, Israel, there is the soothing sound of 250 lb. JDAMs in the distance pounding ham ass in Gaza.
I was walking the beach of Tel Aviv during the “bad weather”. It was far less than an average day off the coast of Washington State. Pretty damned mild, if you ask me.
The correct strategic objective that will save the most number of lives on both sides over time is the total destruction of Gazan civilization and unconditional surrender. That has a chance of leaving a lasting impression on Gazans for generations, so that Grandmothers tell grandchildren for generations that fighting the Jews is ALWAYS a bad idea.
Like Germany with 12% of its population dead and all cities destroyed.
Like Japan with nuked cities.
Total war and mass destruction with unconditional surrerender ... WORKS!
This is the urban war with the historically lowest civilian to combatant ratio. The post WWII urban combat ratio is 9 dead civilians to 1 dead combatant. In this war that ham ass started, the ratio is right around 1 to 1, essentially an order of magnitude less than usual.
So far, right around 1% of Gazans have died in the war they started. For comparison, 12% of Germans died in WWII.
I’m in Israel as you know on an airbase building boxes of food for combat troops in Gaza this week.
Many contentious things occur here that amount to local politics (or justice, in this case) that I trust Israel’s (ahem) “vibrant” democracy to figure out. Like this one.
Seems to me arabs murdered a jewish boy, and should be held to account. Jews may have murdered arabs, and may need to be held to account.
Best to get the police and courts involved, I think, and demonstrate the superior morality of Western Civilization.
Israeli politics are thick. I'm in Tel Aviv currently. I have no particular opinion of this situation; I'm sure the Israelis will thrash it out in their normal fashion.