Posted on 06/02/2007 9:58:43 PM PDT by BigFinn
Arab terrorists attacked Sderot again on Shabbat morning, damaging two buildings and sending four people to the hospital for treatment of shock. The daily IDF retaliation targeted a terrorist leader while he was riding a motorcycle, but the government and military remain helpless to stop the immense damage caused by the primitive rocket.
The Kassam rocket is "very simply made," according to Uzi Rubin, former national program manager of the Arrow anti-missile system. "The sugar they buy from Israel. The fertilizer they buy from Israel. The metal pipe they buy from Israel. Ingenious. Very ingenious. I take my hat off to them for how to make simple things into deadly weapons." I take my hat off to them for how to make simple things into deadly weapons."
The Kassam rocket is a thin steel tube with four metal fins and is propelled by a mix of sugar and fertilizer and carries a crudely-fashioned warhead.
It is a cheap weapon without any guidance system, but, in the words of Baltimore Sun reporter John Murphy, it has succeeded in "throwing the Israeli government off balance and leaving the modern, high-tech Israeli military helpless to stop them."
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“leaving the modern, high-tech Israeli military helpless to stop them”
Only helpless because they actually care about not hurting civilians.
There’s a lot of that going around.
Yeah, with countries like Israel and the U.S. You know, the ones that Amnesty international thinks are barbarians?
Not like those fun loving Palestinians and good-hearted Syrians.
Maybe Isreal should leave Gaza and the Palestinians would like them more. Oh, wait . . . . . . .
1) Turn off the water and power.
2) Read up on General Sherman’s suggested responses for how to react when someone shoots at you.
The IDF shoud re enact Sherman’s march to the sea..
I think Northrop Grumman has a laser missile (or rocket) defense system. It has such range that two or three would defend the entire country. The rockets would, in theory be detonated while over Arab occupied land. Firing it uses a few thousand dollars of chemicals per shot, much cheaper than anti-missile missiles.
Just saying, that would be a great place to test them.
Also, occupy and expel all Palestinians from territory equal to the rocket’s range.
IE - a no-man’s-land.
That way, any rocket launched with not hit Israel proper.
If that expels all the Palestinians... oh well.
Where was that? Germany?
Doesn’t that stink when they light it off? Bet everybody leaves the launch site as much for that as for fear of IDF counterattack.
Wesel, Germany, at the end of the war. Berlin was almost as bad.
Wow. Not all of Berlin would have been that bad. I remember touring parts of East Berlin a few years back; still had bullet holes in the walls.
Helpless only because they want to be.
Launching a Kassam is an act of war. Therefore every launch site will be shortly thereafter visited by a daisy-cutter, no questions asked.
I have been promoting this solution for 20 years.
One hundred meters at a time.
This leaves the "palestinians" total control of how much territory they lose, and when.
Israel could use the additional buffer.
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