But of course, Israel isn’t randomly spraying fire, is it? It’s launching targeted attacks with considerable planning. See commentary above.
Got it–you questioned somebody’s reference to the success of Iron dome, suggesting that they were just using information from Rafael Industries, my point being that it’s not like you have a better source of information to the contrary (and yes, I know both about Ted Postol, and the critiques of Ted Postol)
If you want, we can skip this one and move on to more self-aggrandizing nonsense.
It’s not that they have the “potential,” it’s that they are promising to do it. And advocating the destruction of Hamas is not synonymous with advocating genocide of the Palestinian people, any more than hostility to Israel’s government or even society is synonymous with antisemitism.
And I see how like some others here, you suffer from egomaniacal delusions that Israeli agents are monitoring you. Here’s another possibility–it’s summer time, and I’m a teacher. So today, I sat around playing computer games, watch Eastbound and Down, and doing a little lesson planning, and posting on this thread.
But hey, if it makes you feel more important, I’m a highly trained Mossad agent, who, when I’m not assassinating Hamas operatives and the occasional falafel cook in various European capitals, is assigned to read the threads on TPM in order to prevent daytrader from convincing other people who think exactly the same way he does to think exactly the same way he does.
We fooled Eichmann, daytrader, but we couldn’t fool you.
Curses, foiled again!
Well, Josh Marshall would support that headline. Not me.
How can you have a greater number of civilian deaths than non-civilian deaths and it not be a large percentage?
I think you do not understand what large means.
It seems that the Israelis are much better at murdering civilians than the other side. Last I saw it was, maybe, one Israeli civilian that was working with the IDF that was killed.
Just four little dead non-Israelis on that one beach. Israeli precision is a sight to behold.
Either the Israelis are or they are committing a very precise murder campaign of the Palestinian civilian population.
Don’t let me stop you from promoting some more self-aggrandizing Zionist claptrap.
I would say that information from anyone other than Rafael Industries would, inherently, be more reliable. I’m not going to believe what Taco Bell tells me is a good taco.
So, no truth in this recent past – http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=34520
and
“Israel recruits ‘army of bloggers’ to combat anti-Zionist Web sites” – Israel Recruits 'Army of Bloggers' to Combat anti-Zionist Web Sites - Haaretz Com - Haaretz.com
You really think none of us here are very smart, do you?
Not saying you are “working” here, but educated people understand how professional trolling works. It seems remarkably similar to what you are doing here today.
“Tel Aviv, Israel – At 4 p.m. Tuesday, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said at a press conference that the IDF’s Operation Protective Edge should conclude with Israel “controlling all of the Gaza Strip.””
Talk about recent promises . . . .
It all depends on how you want to measure. You want to say that a large amount of civilians have been killed in relation to the to the total number of deaths. I would say that since most of what seems to be targeted is infrastructure, a better rubric would be to look at the number of sorties.
If better than 90 percent of the strikes are resulting in no deaths, it would seem, as noted above, that either Israel is very bad at “murdering” civilians (I don’t know where you went to school, but 10 percent is a pretty poor grade), or is trying not to kill civilians.
Since I think we can agree that if the IDF wanted to, it could kill thousands of Palestinians pretty easily, those numbers are relatively low.
but let’s find some common ground–given the figures, would you agree that in the vast majority of Israeli strikes, there have been no deaths?
but…but… according to the posters here, Israel already controls the Gaza Strip. Do you think somebody should have told the israeli foreign minister?
Hmmm, curious–how does my bloviating differ from your bloviating, other than the fact that I cite sources and I have more rakish charm?
A reasonable point, but not actually evidence to the contrary. And of course, you doubtlessly do believe all kinds of advertising. I assume you make purchases. You may, at times, seek reviews of those products, in which case you seek to find some other source of information about those products. But if you have a product making certain claims (we can shoot down rockets), and you have some evidence to suggest its working, simply saying “I don’t believe that to be false” doesn’t actually make it false.
Now, in this case, we have hamas firing arguably inaccurate rockets, but firing them at large urban areas. So it’s not like firing at sderot and hitting a field. Moreover, the rockets they are using to fire at tel aviv, one must assume, are their better rockets. Tel Aviv is a big place. So maybe these rockets really can’t hit anything; or maybe they are being shot down. So far, you really have no presented no evidence to latter being false.
Really? A precise murder campaign that can’t seem to kill anyone in 90 percent of attacks?
That doesn’t seem very precise, does it? Unless, far from trying to murder people, they are trying to avoid casualties, by doing things like warning people to leave, which even the Palestinians admit is taking place.
Weird for a precise murder campaign, not?
I said nothing about your intelligence, only about your self-perception. I think that, like a lot of people who post on things like this (and myself with letters to the editor when I was much, much younger), you see yourself as doing something important, when really, this sort of thing is primarily self-aggrandizing and cathartic. And that’s fine–you are angry, and you wan to vent. That’s perfectly reasonable and healthy. But I think that in keeping with that, it suits your purpose (i.e., makes you feel that what you’re doing is more important and meaningful) if you feel that the people who disagree with must be part of this sinister force you loathe, because then you’re not just some socially retarded zhlub posting on the internet, you’re part of the resistance. So by all means, fight the power, and call me a troll, or a Zionist agent if if makes you feel better. to me, the point at which somebody says "you’re a troll,’ or “you’re a zionist agent” its no different from when somebody says “you’re an antisemite” or “you’re a racist.” It addresses the person and not the content of what they’re saying, which is generally a sign that you don’t have much to say yourself.
Let’s just stick with the dead children ratio.
He is kinda stupid.
I’d say you support the genocidal State of Israel and I don’t.
Some are being shot down, somehow. Which is why the US military industrial complex is wondering how they can make a buck off of it.