Re: Palestine, Israel, and beyond
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:25 am
It does seem as though Iran is forcing the formation of a coalition against them. An over-reach?
Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:25 am It does seem as though Iran is forcing the formation of a coalition against them. An over-reach?It's a face-saving exercise by Iran, if their objective was lots of death and destruction, they wouldn't have given Israel the heads up days ago.
Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 1:09 pm Very expensive face-saving.Putin also wants the world looking at the Middle East instead of Ukraine, this helps him enormously as has everything which has happened since the 7th of October.
Putin wanted those drones...
Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:44 pmGoes back to WW2 and the Japanese. Something unnatural about suicide attacks. Not Christian, not decent. Not playing by the rules.
Suicide sounds all dramatic and kamikaze, so I can see why Journos love it.
But it's extremely misleading about how these weapons work.
Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:39 pmThe glaring difference is that the Kamikaze pilots did actually commit suicide in the course of their attacks, drones are pilotless so no suicide needed. The nearer WW2 comparison would be the V1s, I don't recall anyone calling them suicide weapons.Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:44 pmGoes back to WW2 and the Japanese. Something unnatural about suicide attacks. Not Christian, not decent. Not playing by the rules.
Suicide sounds all dramatic and kamikaze, so I can see why Journos love it.
But it's extremely misleading about how these weapons work.
Oboogie wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:03 pmV1s, are accurately described as "cruise missiles".Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:39 pmThe glaring difference is that the Kamikaze pilots did actually commit suicide in the course of their attacks, drones are pilotless so no suicide needed. The nearer WW2 comparison would be the V1s, I don't recall anyone calling them suicide weapons.Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:44 pmGoes back to WW2 and the Japanese. Something unnatural about suicide attacks. Not Christian, not decent. Not playing by the rules.
Suicide sounds all dramatic and kamikaze, so I can see why Journos love it.
But it's extremely misleading about how these weapons work.
We seek to liberate Judaism from an ethnostate that wants Jews to be perennially afraid, that wants our children to be afraid, that wants us to believe the world is against us so that we go running to its fortress and beneath its iron dome, or at least keep the weapons and donations flowing.Upon first reading I thought it too lugubriously, sententiously expressed all told (and still do, to a point), but have since read Simon Schama on the socials describing it as, ‘a raft of Stalinist-Hamas cant’ and decided that it justifies its existence entirely for provoking that hilarity of a response.
That is the false idol.
And it’s not just Netanyahu, it’s the world he made and that made him – it’s Zionism.
Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:33 pmExactly - although V2s are the more obvious ancestor of Cruise missiles.Oboogie wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:03 pmV1s, are accurately described as "cruise missiles".Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:39 pmThe glaring difference is that the Kamikaze pilots did actually commit suicide in the course of their attacks, drones are pilotless so no suicide needed. The nearer WW2 comparison would be the V1s, I don't recall anyone calling them suicide weapons.
Goes back to WW2 and the Japanese. Something unnatural about suicide attacks. Not Christian, not decent. Not playing by the rules.
By the end of the second world war there were various air-dropped "remote guided missiles".
Enything from a big bomb with steering fins attached, to a 4 engine bomber loaded with explosives - each steered from a control aircraft.
There were also a few genuine suicide aircraft (and boats and submarines).
These had people in.
But when those people see activists praising Hamas – the men who killed, tortured and raped so many on 7 October and still hold dozens hostage – or carrying the flag of Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia that does the bidding of the theocrats in Tehran; or saying “Zionists don’t deserve to live”; or chanting in sinister unison for the expulsion of a “Zionist” who has been detected in the camp; or lamenting the Jewish role in American feminism, they want nothing to do with such a movement. Because they know that movement wants nothing to do with them. And that feeling is not reduced when they hear a big-name speaker suggest to a New York crowd that any Jew who believes, after two millennia of persecution, that Jews need a home of their own is a worshipper of “a false idol”, a “profane” god.
Though, to be clear, the most striking condemnation of this hardening of supposedly pro-Palestinian rhetoric has come not from Jews, but from Palestinians. The protesters have taken “an extremist, maximalist, inflammatory, unreasonable, and totally illogical approach which is harmful to the pro-Palestinian cause,” wrote Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Gaza-born Palestinian analyst who has lost a staggering 31 members of his own family in recent months. Via social media, Alkhatib urges the demonstrators to stop “wasting time with slogan-driven and maximalist activism that does nothing”, and instead to “use your western privilege to actually help the Palestinian people and promote a pragmatic path forward by engaging Israeli and Jewish audiences”.
Oboogie wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:09 pm Exactly - although V2s are the more obvious ancestor of Cruise missiles.