Yeah, well Bruce Bannerstein madder... 
"Bad people kidnap....Hulk Smash!!!
Posted on 06/29/2006 8:16:50 AM PDT by IrishMike
As a textbook example of hi-tech precision bombardment it could hardly be improved. Smoke was still rising yesterday from the scorched wreckage of the six transformers at Gaza’s only power station, each destroyed by a single missile fired by an Israeli warplane some 10 hours earlier.
Had they hit the huge cylindrical diesel tank 100 metres away they would have set the whole power station alight. But the strike was clinically effective, cutting all the electricity to 700,000 Gaza consumers, threatening water supplies and depriving its public of light, cooking, broadcast news, and – a crucial issue in scorching summer temperatures – fans.
“I’m so surprised that they did this,” said Dr Derar Abu Sisi, the operations manager at the Al Nusirat power station. “We have been right through the worst of the intifada but this didn’t happen.” It would, Dr Abu Sisi said, take a “minimum of three to six months” to restore supplies at a cost between $5m (£2.8m) and $7m. “The Geneva Convention says it is not allowed to attack infrastructure for the civilian people,” he added. “You might expect that economic infrastructure could be a target in the last stages of a war. But this is not like that.”
The damage to Gaza’s power supply was condemned as “unacceptable and barbaric collective punishment of civilians, including women, children and old people” by the office of Mahmoud Abbas, which complained it was intensifying what it says are the difficulties he already faces in trying to secure the safe release of Gilad Shalit, the 19-year-old Israeli army corporal abducted by militants – including members of Hamas’s military wing – on Sunday.
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LOL Yes maybe Israeli or American but the Pali's will b*t*h and complain to the UN, EU,etc and let their people starve. The Arab nations will have an uproar,maybe, but they consider the Pali's just a bunch of loser tools. No one will fix those transformers and then the world will turn more against Israel like usual.
I've got a daughter that just joined the IDF. She attempted to aid the Pali's( very liberal) until a dud Qassam went "thud" a few yard from her car outside Sderot. My how she changed!! I say keep the jerks in the dark ages or let the Arab nations open their borders. To all IDF, IAF and intelligence divisions in Y'srael Mazel Tov!
"I hope it's not paid for by us. In the long run, I guess we end up paying for everything in the world that breaks.
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The power station that was hit with missiles, is insured by a U.S. company.
LOL! It is amazing how contact with the real world will change the most stedfast of our internal opinions.
I had a friend who said that the way to change a Lib's mind about direct action is to knock them down, apoligise, help them up, promise not to do it again, then repeat the process until learning occurs. I think of this every time somebody brings up the 14 resolutions the Security Council gave to Iraq. Talk is talk, action is action.
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They will have to hold their noses again since their totally defective culture would have a hard time figuring out how to make a doorbell transformer. All they can make are bombs and bad rockets. Praise be to Allah for a religion that keeps them stupid and useless to the world.
society....
I don't understand what this means. The U.S. always knocked out power first when going to war, doesn't it?
So is power a "dual use" infrastucture that is fair game because the military uses it? But then what isn't?
Yeah, well Bruce Bannerstein madder...
"Bad people kidnap....Hulk Smash!!!
...I don't understand what this means. The U.S. always knocked out power first when going to war, doesn't it?
So is power a "dual use" infrastucture that is fair game because the military uses it? But then what isn't?
ALL VERY TRUE !!!
I remember watchinf gulf I ans II on cable television, 'and live from...' lights ON / Lights OFF
Not to mention every bridge leading to Belgrade.
Neither do I. I usually make a distinction between civilians and their governments because usually we're dealing with people under the thumb of some unelected despot. These people knowingly elected terrorists to lead them, and this is where the terrorists are leading them.
Ditto that.
No doubt the pali power lines are hooked into an Isreali grid...Disconnect a few wires and flip a switch...They'll have electricity with a few hours, at Israel's discretion...
You'll have to axe the 3000 Americans that were in the WTC about this breach of the Geneva convention!
They can drink camel whiz!
Yup, a favorite episode.
"Make it go."
What was the race?
The Geneva Convention only applies when BOTH parties adhere to the Geneva Convention; if one violates it, the other is not required to comply.
You're great grandkids will live in poverty because you are still fighting the last war. You lost. Your leaders exploit you in the name of Allah, your fellow Arabs mouth a good line about how much they care about you, but you notice that they don't invite you to live in their countries. You had plenty of jobs doing work in Israel, but you'd rather blow up pizza parlors full of schoolchildren in the name of some kind of stupid "honor" that has kept you poor and wretched for fifty years when you could be doing the same thing the Jews did and turn YOUR section of desert into green farmland if you would work at it and stop whining.
Super post about the obvious!
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