Comments on: The Qassam rockets myths

By: Israeli soldier to be charged with manslaughter... - Page 2 - Political Forum

Israeli soldier to be charged with manslaughter... - Page 2 - Political Forum — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:40:09 +0000

[...] headline: The Qassam rockets myths quote: The Qassam rockets were being used as one component of an array of military tactics deployed by Gazan groups before the pull-out, the Gush Katif colonies being the prominent target. This was a response to a wave of violence and expulsions in which, for example, 13,350 residents of Rafah had their homes and life belongings destroyed in the year preceding the withdrawal, courtesy of Israeli tanks and Caterpillar bulldozers. Parts of Gaza came to resemble Grozny. The Israelis frequently attacked ambulances, at one point using the argument that UNRWA had allowed Qassam rockets to be loaded on board one such vehicle (this turned out to be a lie, but it is still repeated on many a media outlet and website). The vast majority of casualties from their use date back to the period of formal colonialism. After the withdrawal, the rate at which these were used diminished dramatically. Their use has spiked in response to serial atrocities against Palestinians, such as the slaughter of the Ghaliya family on the Gaza beach, (in which Hamas broke an eighteen month unilateral ceasefire). LINK [...]

By: Habu

Habu — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:47:48 +0000

Dan Dare,

Nice try at being the knowledgeable polemist but you’re so warped by BDS that you showed your entire raison d’être, along with your ass. Try some better propaganda. What a wad.

By: Dan Dare

Dan Dare — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:50:35 +0000

Phil (Jan 5th, 2009 at 12:08 am) wrote: "in the military here in the United States we are taught be sure of our targets before we take it out, avoiding civilians at all costs. It is of course unavoidable that some civilians will be in the line of fire but to hide behind a woman’s skirt is not one of the things we do!!"

No, but you do do extraordinary renditions, illegal invasions, torture of innocents, Gitmo, economic assassinations, DU-tipped bombs, white phosphorous, nerve gas, UAVs, "smart" bombs that result in "collateral" damage, start wars of imperialist expansionism and fund proxy wars (such as in Gaza now), support propaganda and psyops, etc. That's certainly very honorable Phil. You should be proud of yourself.

If you bothered to dig a little deeper beneath the military brainwashing you've evidently survived, you'll find that the "hiding behind women's skirts" is further disinfo perpetrated by Israeli-US propaganda outfits to make the "enemy" less than human in the eyes of the assailants (easier to kill, and all of that). In Gaza, women and children are also soldiers fighting for their lives, not hiding, because Bush and his cronies have deemed Hamas to be a "terrorist" group, even though it was +democratically+ elected in fair and free elections (according to the UN watchdogs). This is presumably because Hamas do not place American imperial interests ahead of local interests?

Phil, I don't mean this personally because I obviously don't know you, so this is merely a general statement: commenting on the idea of American wartime honor of late is a little like admiring the color of a serial killer's eyes as a defense against his killing. A complete non sequitur.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:08:16 +0000

Just about anyone with some simple tools and a welder could make these cheap rockets!
I love how we Americans seem to always be blamed for such things happening.
To fire a missile at unarmed civilians from the safety of the Gaza strip is downright cowardly!
One thing I have always wondered about is why in the middle east the fighters aren’t honorable? By that I mean killing women and children or using them as shields is cowardly, unmanly without a shred of honor!
Even during the 1st and 2nd Gulf war we used .50 Caliber sniper rifles to “knock” on a hanger door to give the occupants 20 minutes before we hit it with our missiles. This became known to other Iraqis and most of the buildings were empty when we took it out. This is fighting with honor!
I guess a lot of it depends on how much value you place on another human beings life, in the military here in the United States we are taught be sure of our targets before we take it out, avoiding civilians at all costs. It is of course unavoidable that some civilians will be in the line of fire but to hide behind a woman’s skirt is not one of the things we do!!

By: Maximus V

Maximus V — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:55:02 +0000

Hi Max,

your question – hope this answers it ok:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=F91XF6bSDRQ&eur…

By: Max

Max — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:07:52 +0000

Who is making the Quassam rockets ? Two articles in Wikipedia and the American media state they are made by "Hamas", implying the elected Hamas government is responsible. Is this true ?

By: RICHARD RALPH ROEHL

RICHARD RALPH ROEHL — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:42:35 +0000

Arafat was right when he said that Zionism is racism. I think it’s more than that. I now see that Zionism is pure evil. The pogroms committed against the Palestinians of Gaza is the resurrection of Dachau… and the goal of the Israeli Zionist theoCRAZY is apartheid and then genocide. The Israelis are the new Nazi machine and maybe worse. This evil, racist, bigoted demon beast (Israel) must be $topped! One $trategy for doing this is to $top the beast that blindly $upports the beast: the United $tates!

This can be accomplished in three ways.

1. Employ a global oil bourse to replace the worthless petrodollar with a basket of currencies dominated by the Euro.

2. Call in U.$. debt… or at least stop financing U.$. debt. $top enabling Amerika’s mindless and irresponsible consumerism, a consumerism that is destroying the planet!

3. Create a consortium of nations, led by China, Russia, Opec nations (and other nations) to declare and impose a moritorium on all crude oil exports to the United $tates, again… the most irresponsible and violent nation $tate on the Planet Earth.

If the United $tates is bankrupt, and it’s currency is made worthless, and it’s population is in open rebellion and/or practicing guerrilla war against the fascist ruling class on Wall $treet and K. $treet in $ewertown (Washington D.C.), the great whore that is Amerika CANNOT continue to wage imperialist hegemonic military adventurism in distant foreign lands for the sake of corp-rat war profiteering. Nor can it continue to blindly support the genocidal practices of evil theocratic regimes like Israel. Yesss… Old Coyote Knose that the recent bombings in Gaza are the acts of demon people!