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Israelis Sue Government For Laser Cannons

Posted by samzenpus on from the we-all-want-a-laser-cannon dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Residents of a southern Israeli town want a real-life laser cannon to protect them against Palestinian rocket attacks. And they're suing the national government, for failing to provide the ray gun defense. The U.S.-Israeli Tactical High Energy Laser project was widely considered to be the most successful energy weapon ever built. But the toxic chemicals needed to generate THEL's megawatts of power made the thing a logistical nightmare. It was scrapped. Now, the residents of Sderot want it back. And they're taking Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to court to make it happen."

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  1. Don't give the fanatics more weaponry.... by sethstorm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just keep this thing out of Charlie Johnson's hands, or practically anyone who's part of that Pajama Media network.

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  2. sorry, the whole world is obsessed with jews by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    there are more sikhs in the world than jews, but no one argues about them

    personally, i don't like jews, i don't hate jews. i just don't care about jews, for or against

    and that makes me a small minority in the world

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  3. Re:solve the cause, not the symptom by oceaniv · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ironic that YOU'RE missing the "cause"... you think there's a bunch of kids sitting there going oh I am bored "blow stuff up." That's very naive. In the past two weeks alone, 120 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military. The Palestinians have no weapons, no defense (other than those so-called "terrorists", no security, no jobs, no education... put that pressure plus the horror of seeing your friends and neighbors getting arrested all the time (hell a year ago the entire Palestinian 'pseudo-parliament' got arrested. You think that's not enough to put someone over the edge? Until Palestinians are treated like human beings by Israel, until Israel stops annexing pieces of their land, their farms in the name of "security" there will be no rest.