Jewish Odysseus: AERIAL BOMBING, BY THE NUMBERS...

Sunday, December 28, 2008

AERIAL BOMBING, BY THE NUMBERS...

Recalling that Hamas deliberately places its agencies of violence (I refuse to call them "police" or "military") in the midst of dense population centers--consider these numbers:

From AP, 12/28/08: "Gaza health official Dr. Moaiya Hassanain said at least 280 people were killed, including 183 members of Hamas' uniformed security forces. It was not clear how many of the others were gunmen or civilians."

183 of 280 = AT LEAST 65% of the dead were military...

According to PALESTINIAN sources.

From the JPost, 12/27/08:
230 dead in 1st day of Gaza offensive
Dec. 27, 2008
Yaakov Katz , THE JERUSALEM POST
In the heaviest military strike against the Gaza Strip since the 1967 Six Day War, the Israel Air Force bombed over 170 targets on Saturday, killing more than 230 Palestinians, as Israel launched "Operation Cast Lead," aimed at putting a stop to Hamas rocket attacks against the South.

...Palestinian officials said that at least 15 civilians were among the dead in Gaza.

15 of 230 = 6.5% of the dead were civilians.

According to PALESTINIAN sources.

Only two words can describe the care and accuracy of the IDF in Operation Cast Lead: UNBELIEVABLE AND STUPEFYING.

Ohhhh, and let's all shed a tear that Hamas is now finding it difficult to indulge in wedding-policing like this one from last year:

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Well done amigo. Linked: While the World Watches; December 28, 2008 at 12:34:00 PM PST
SC&A said...: The Israelis have nothing to apologize for.

There is no such thing as a 'disproportionate' response to calls for genocide.

If the world took the Israeli cue, there would not have been a Rwanda, Congo or Darfur, for starters.

Had the Alliesd bombed Berlin in 1938 (and even caused the death of tens of thousands)50 MILLION souls would have been saved.; December 29, 2008 at 5:24:00 AM PST

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The Odyssey by Homer, Chapter 21:

For long Odysseus stood with the bow in his hands, handling it as a minstrel handles a lyre when he stretches a cord or tightens a peg. Then he bent the great bow; he bent it without an effort, and at his touch the bow-string made a sound that was like the cry of a swallow. The wooers seeing him bend that mighty bow felt, every man of them, a sharp pain at the heart. They saw Odysseus take up an arrow and fit it to the string. He held the notch, and he drew the string, and he shot the bronze-weighted arrow straight through the holes in the back of the axe-heads. Then as Eumæus took up the axes, and brought them outside, he said, ‘Thou seest, lord Telemachus, that thy guest does not shame thee through foolish boasting. I have bent the bow of Odysseus, and I have shot the arrow aright. But now it is time to provide the feast for the lords who woo thy lady mother. While it is yet light, the feast must be served to them, and with the feast they must have music and the dance.’ Saying this he nodded to Telemachus, bending his terrible brows. Telemachus instantly girt his sword upon him and took his spear in his hand. Outside was heard the thunder of Zeus. And now Odysseus had stripped his rags from him and was standing upright, looking a master of men. The mighty bow was in his hands, and at his feet were scattered many bronze-weighted arrows.