This is interesting:
A swift cannon developed in the United States managed to intercept replicas of Qassam rockets during an experiment designed to test its ability to operate on the Gaza border.
The anti-Qasam system is developed by an American company, Lockheed Martin, which also manufactures F-16 jets, and was named Sky Shield. The system was based on radars and two swift cannons with a firing rate reaching up to a thousand shells a minute.
According to company sources, the cannon succeeded in smashing the combat head of the Qassam rocket replica during an experiment. The experiment took place on land, although the company claimed that the system proved capable of intercepting rockets in the air.
Talk to me some more when you can intercept an incoming kassam. Until then, I think $15 mil is a bit steep for a cannon that hasn’t hit flying rockets. On the other hand, take away the palestinian rocket weapon, and you have—peace. Because they’ll be forced to negotiate.
How many palestinians is worth one Jew? Apparently, more than 1400. And remember, this is THEIR estimation, not ours. We’re not the ones doing the asking.
The Hamas movement announced that it demands to place Tanzim leader in the West Bank Marwan Barghouti, who is jailed in Israel , at the top of the list of Palestinian prisoners who will be freed as part of a deal for the release of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit , the London-based Arabic-language newspaper al-Hayat reported Thursday.
According to the report, Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal told Barghouti’s wife that the abducted soldier will not be freed without her husband’s release.
In addition, the movement demanded that Israel releases 1,400 prisoners in three stages as part of the deal. The first stage will include the release of 400 women and youths jailed in Israel, and Hamas will simultaneously transfer Shalit to Egypt.
Why transfer him to Egypt? So Egypt can hold him until the deal is finished?
In the second stage Israel will release 500 Palestinian prisoners, and Shalit will simultaneously be transferred to Israel. In the third stage Israel will release another 500 prisoners.
How does Egypt, who is at peace with Israel, have the gall to agree to imprison an Israeli soldier? This is wrong in so many ways I can’t begin to count them. Don’t sign off on that one, Olmert.
More spurious arrest warrants for Israelis:
Former IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon escaped an arrest during a visit to New Zealand.
The warranty, which was filed by a New Zealand citizen against Yaalon for alleged war crimes, was cancelled at the last minute after the local Justice Ministry interfered, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights reported Thursday.
The Foreign Ministry confirmed that a legal claim wad filed in New Zealand and was later rejected by attorney general in Auckland. Ministry
officials told Ynet, “We are continuing to follow the affair. In the meantime, Yaalon had ended his tour there.”
They never tried to arrest Arafat for any of his crimes against humanity. Go figure. I guess murdering hundreds of Jews doesn’t rate as a war crime in these PoMo times.
So to sum up:
The arabs think that the life of one jew is worth 1400 arab lives and the world doesn’t care about dead jews but does about dead arabs (1/1400 of a Jew)…?
I just can’t do the math here…
The whole problem with investing in complicated defensive systems is
1. They have a high failure rate
2. They’re generally a good deal more expensive than the weapons they’re meant to defend against
The only real defense is to preemptively destroy the weapons themselves. Building expensive and complicated anti-systems is never going to work and the only time it makes sense is when dealing with nuclear weapons which can’t always be preemptively destroyed and whose successful impact has too unimaginably a high cost.
Israel and America’s post 9/11 investment in anti-system is fundamentally misguided. It’s like responding to someone shooting bullets at you by building a complicated expensive system that intercepts the bullets 15 percent of the time, instead of just shooting him first.
What these systems really represent is the lack of will on the part of Israel and America to destroy the enemy instead of playing waiting games, running patrols, maintaining a balance and hoping somehow things will get better.
Small world, I work for a major defense contractor that designs and builds the Phalanx “close in weapon system” computer that controls the rapid fire machine gun canon. Normally this system is used at sea as a last ditch defense effort against incoming missiles or planes attacking ships, but recently, discussions have focused on its use as a land based strategic defense.
Unfortunately, shooting a wall of lead bullets in a densely populated area like Gaza is not realistic, as what goes up will come down with lethal force.
Laser technology is a better method, but is still in the design stage.
Go get the lion in his den ! Take it to him instead of reacting to his attacks !
Morris, obviously, if an Arab is worth 1/1400th of a Jew, then we Jews are incalculably valuable.
I think that if the present Israeli government accepts this gambit, then it should also announce that the ratio applies to an exchange of populations of Gaza and the West Bank. In other words, since 10,000 Jews left Gaza for Israel (some say 20,000), then 1.4 million (or 2.8 million) Arabs must leave the West Bank for Gaza, Jordan or other presently Arab governed areas.
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Bing bing bing!! we have a winner. Ignoring any polluting effects, this might be useful at sea or in an un-populated (totally un-populated), but no place where there might be people you don’t want to kill.
1400 Palis for 1 Jew? Yes, you can think of it as 1 Jew being worth 1400 Palis. But you can alternatively think of them as being equally worthwhile and the Palis taking the Jews to the cleaners. And I’m sure this is how the Palis think.
An argument in favor of the death penalty