BBC News - Israel Bus explosion - Several Injured

[NotAllThere]

Indeed. Hamas do have F16s and Huge tanks to defend themselves with. You are comparing a giant battle ship to an AK-47 here....

That's for defence. I was talking about their annual appraisal for attack effectiveness. Do try to keep up.

Perhaps Hamas should have spent money on building schools for girls, rather than rockets from Iran. Or letting some of the third generations dwellers in refugee camps out to settle in Gaza proper. You can believe the IDF to be a bunch of blood thirsty violent bastards without having to justify or defend the actions of Hamas. And vice versa.

Rule one of conflict. Don't get into an arse kicking contest with a centipede.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

That's for defence. I was talking about their annual appraisal for attack effectiveness. Do try to keep up.

The saying goes: A bad worker always blames his tools.

In this case they simply don't have the tools to defend themselves effectively - that is not to completely justify their tactics. As I said in previous post, Hezbollah managed to keep the majority of the enemy casualties as military. At the same time, however, they have little else they can do. The weapons they have can't do anything to the Israeli tanks, helicopters or fighter jets.

[Robinho]

. Also it is clearly not to scale.

Looks alright to me.

[NotAllThere]

...In this case they simply don't have the tools to defend themselves effectively ...

If they built schools instead, perhaps they wouldn't have to. If they can evade the blockade well enough to get missiles in, the raw materials for concrete shouldn't be too hard.

One difference between the IDF and Hamas seems to be that the IDF care about the people they're supposed to be looking after. Hamas seem to care more about hurting their enemy than looking after their own.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Looks alright to me.

I meant something more like this:

[Robinho]

Oh

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

If they built schools instead, perhaps they wouldn't have to. If they can evade the blockade well enough to get missiles in, the raw materials for concrete shouldn't be too hard.

One difference between the IDF and Hamas seems to be that the IDF care about the people they're supposed to be looking after. Hamas seem to care more about hurting their enemy than looking after their own.

Ah yes - they are allowed to build schools in the west bank aren't they? well at least for a few months before a settlement is built on top of them....

[Gibbon]

Whilst ever Jews live in the Levant there will be trouble.

References:

Old testament
Josephus
Hadrian - who dispersed them in approx 134 CE

1948 onwards - when they went back.

[Coalman]

Whilst ever Jews live in the Levant there will be trouble.

References:

Old testament
Josephus
Hadrian - who dispersed them in approx 134 CE

1948 onwards - when they went back.

Never any trouble in the middle east between 134 CE and 1948 then? Bloody Christians/Muslims/Jews - can we see a common theme here at all? Why can this region never settle, so called cradle of civilisation?

That's my deep thinking for the day - back to work.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Whilst ever Jews live in the Levant there will be trouble.

References:

Old testament
Josephus
Hadrian - who dispersed them in approx 134 CE

1948 onwards - when they went back.

Provided there is no anti-Semitism intended from the above, there is some logic to it - Having a Zionist state in the middle of all those Muslim countries is surely a lethal recipe for disaster.... Maybe they should have formed Israel in Germany instead? After all it was not the Palestinians who committed the holocaust.