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 Gazas 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.
Im 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 didnt 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 Gazas 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 Hamass military wing on Sunday.
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And, fittingly for this thread; the power plant.
Making bombs and bad rockets is much more risky in the dark I hear.
In Jerusalem, Israel, at the funeral of Jewish settler Eliahu Asehri in Jerusalem, Thursday, June 29, 2006
murdered by Palestinian terrorists funded by the EU and US State Dept.
========= Ramallah =========
In Ramallah, Hamas terrorists demand more murders.
Amen and right on! Nailed it!
You made me laugh hard on that one. I can't say I didn't tell her so. I just got an email from her( in Hebrew) and she's mad as h*ll and not going to take it anymore. Dang I bet she twists the key on a nuke soon enough!
I wouldn't blame her. I was ready to hop the next plane locked and loaded when I heard her story. She may be 23 but she's still my baby girl and no desert rat is going to harm on hair on her head.
Funny, but I'm not hearing the outcry against this that I would have expected. The world seems to be winking and quietly calling for "restraint", but I'm not hearing the "Withdraw! Withdraw! Poool Out! Stup De Bumbing!" that one normally hears at these times.
Most insurance doesn't cover acts of war, your's or someone else's.
I'll bet you that policy has an exclusion for "Acts of War". Broadly defined.
"Oh. You have the No-Pay Policy . . . "
Bingo. GMTA.
Boo-hoo...he must not have remembered Billy Jeff and NATO bombing bridges, car factories, and every other kind of infrastructure they could hit in Serbia. We could ignore the Geneva Convention during the Clinton administration without the SCOTUS saying a discouraging word about it.
Added to my tagline gallery!
What is really sickening when looking at these Israeli funeral pictures is the thought that it could very well be guns bought with US taxpayer funds that killed this young man.
Unfortunately, according to another article, this policy did cover "political violence".
Still its a general principal that insurance doesn't cover your own deliberate acts, and It's certainly arguable that the damage was a foreseeable result of their own action.
If I were the insurance company, I'd deny the claim and litigate it out . . . unless they could get jurisdiction and venue in the PA . . . talk about getting "home cooked" . . . they might really GET cooked (i.e. blown up).
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