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Microdrone Spy Planes
glinden writes "BBC News is reporting that Israel is now deploying microdrone spy planes. These planes have a wingspan of 13 inches (33 cm), can be carried in a backpack, can be launched by a single soldier, and can even fly through windows. The next step in the drone wars?"
Maybe if you think drones are their enemy deploying young children as suicide bombers.
This is what kind of war Israel is facing.
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Fly through window, Then EXPLODE... Now That would be cool.
This is probably what the little plane will eventually be used for. An ounce of Cemtex plastic explosive surrounded by very hard plastic that rips apart skin, burrows deeply, and can't be detected by X-rays (Rhetegen sp? rays) enclosed on a little plane. Or the little plane can be the device sending guidance information to a larger missle. Another nasty assassination tool.
So what's so 'cool' about this kind of murder? Are you some kind of death freak? Or just another silly American suburban child-man who has been shielded from all possible exposure to real blood and evil except for ultra-violent movies and video games.
Murder is not 'cool', dude.
Ah, yes. From the people who invented the Uzi, an indiscriminate killing machine- the closest you can get to the gun equivalent of a nuclear weapon- you don't pick your targets with an Uzi, you pick your areas. Just like rocket missiles fired into ghettos with some of the highest population densities in the world. I think you're extremely naive in thinking that intelligence isn't used to kill people, or that said drone will only be used for intelligence. What do you think follows the drone through the window? Answer: a rocket, from a helicopter gunship.
It's be nice if people stopped and remembered a few basic facts. #1, Palestinians were there first. #2, Palestinians have rocks; Israelis have gunship helicopters, fighter jets, tanks, RPGs, and nuclear weapons; compare the body counts from the palestinian bombings with the multiple retaliation strikes and note that the ratio is just a tad imbalanced. #3, you see terrorists- I see people fenced into ghetto prisons, whose basic resources(such as water) have been redirected out of the land they've been squeezed into, so desperate to protect their homes they're willing to strap bombs to themselves because they have no other means left to defend themselves.
Whereas most Palestinians would probably be happy to have their land back and move on to living- Israel won't be satisfied until they've pushed Palestinians completely out of the way, or exterminated them. They're doing a damn fine job at both. They've stripped land, resources, and property to satisfy the needs of their own population, who are somehow better than the people that were there already.
Ring any late-1930's, early 1940's bells?
Please help metamoderate.
If the Palestinians stop then the treaty signed would be more in Israel's favor than if the Palestinians agreed to stop the violence as a bargaining chip.
Once the treaty was signed and all violence from the Palestinians ceased, Israel would likely do something to provoke them. The wall they're building for example is taking land away from the Palestinians. If any Israeli land is ending up on the Palestinian side of the wall, it's a small fraction of the land taken from Palestinians.
Either side could re-ignite the violence with a bomb. Israeli military or civilians could set a bomb off in Israel. Palestinians could assassinate a peace-making leader of theirs and try to make it look like the Israelis did it.