This Ongoing War
09 April '11
The ongoing effort to paint the armed-to-the-teeth, embedded-within-the-civilian-population Hamas terrorist forces as pathetic victims continues.
"It was not known that the bus targeted on the outskirts of Gaza carried school children," spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters, adding that the road where the bus was travelling was often used by Israeli military vehicles.
Do you remember the last time the terrorists of Hamastan attacked or struck an Israeli military target? Attacking Jewish school buses is not new, and Hamas deliberately and massively attacking innocent Israeli children is central to their strategy. The only aspect of this that's new (this strategic warfare website report from 2009 said Hamas still did not have the Kornets) is now they have the ability to do it better. It's a significant and very worrying upgrading of the jihadists' offensive capability.
From yesterday's New York Times
"Israeli security officials said that the Kornet antitank missile fired on Thursday was an advanced and accurate weapon deliberately aimed at the bus. The missile, which is laser guided, has a range of about three miles, and in this case, according to initial findings, it hit its target from a distance of nearly two miles, the officials said."
Reminder: the bus was standing still when hit, having deposited about fifty school children just minutes earlier.
And the Kornet - what's that?
The Kornet (Russian: "Корнет"; English: Cornet) is a Russian anti-tank missile (ATGM). It is a second generation ATGM intended to deal with main battle tanks and to engage slow and low flying helicopters, but is not intended to fully replace previous systems, due to the cost.[2] The missile carries the GRAU designation 9M133 and the NATO reporting name AT-14 Spriggan.
How did they reach this sensitive part of the world. A January 2011 article called "Iran Secretly Shipping Thousands of Weapons to HAMAS" gives some indications.
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: IDF’s Proportional Military Response is actually less than the Arab Palestinians military actions against Israel. Too much current thinking involving war damage is a liken to a pyramidal , meaning at the bottom where Israeli military response / actions have taken place is where the largest amount of damage to the Hamas / Arab Palestinians is done and is observable by the naked eye and measurable in effects .However in asymmetric conflict warfare attacks/ damage is opposite , upside down pyramidal. The damage you seen with the naked eye is minimal, however as you go upward the damage is actually greater. WHY ? Because too many professionals measure what you see with the naked eye. Damages to Israeli economic infrastructural is in the billions and climbing. Billions in damage is loss of funds that has to be spent wasted on building Iran Dome, deployment of troops , continually wasting money on building shelters , security check points, providing security across Israel. For example the recent fire in Northern Israel which cost lives & hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, because Israel had to spend money on providing military protection with little money left over for fire equipment. Hence these asymmetric conflict warfare attacks/ damage cause tremendous drain on Israel's overall economic resources no different had Israel been carpet bombed. Israeli human suffering unseen to the naked eye too, and is primarily psycho-social in nature as damage to families & home life. You have as little as 15 seconds to find your children and get to s bomb shelter ? The problem is Israel military responses are not , has never been equal to the damage the Hamas / Arab Palestinians are causing to Israel. In addition Hamas / Arab Palestinians obtain billions in aid & economic outside assistance, Israeli aid also is given in rebuilding Hamas / Arab Palestinians infrastructure, use of Israeli medical & hospital facilities ( over 10,000 Arab Palestinians treated in 2010) Until you look without the naked eye and see what the real war damage to Israel is . In reality Israel has not even come close to inflicting the overall economic damages to Hamas / Arab Palestinians that they have upon Israel. Israel military response is hardly proportional
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