Saturday, 27 December 2008
Never Such Pinpoint Bombing In The History Of Warfare, As The BBC Inadvertently Makes Clear

Here is an account by the BBC, from "the BBC's Rushdi Aboualouf," their man in Gaza (well, Tim Franks is the primary anti-Israel propagandist in Gaza, but Rushdi Abaoulouf  is apparently a member of the local supporting staff), an account meant to be entirely unsympathetic, of course, to Israel and of course meant  to win our sympathy for the "Palestinians" who have done nothing to deserve any of this: 

"It's hard to find a secure place in Gaza. Gaza has no shelters, it has no safe places. The Hamas security compounds are in the middle of the city - it's not the kind of place where you see compounds outside the cities.

I have witnessed one of the compounds - which is 20m away from my house - I was standing on the balcony and I have seen the Israeli airplanes hitting the place. "

So what do we learn from his report? That the "security compounds" are deliberately placed "in the middle of the city." It's no different from the anti-aircraft missiles and guns deliberately placed on top of mosques and schools by  the PLO, in Lebanon in 1982, and Hezbollah hiding -- not quite to the extent that the PLO did  -- among civilians as much as possible. 

And yet, look what the Israelis did -- the reporter was standing on his balcony, a mere 20 meters from "one of the compounds" and he saw "the Israeli airp[lanes hitting the place" and leaving him, still standiing on his balcony. And why did he stay on his balcony during all this? Because, despite the stories of they wish us all to believe, their own actions and attitudes bespeak their real understanding. They call the Israelis Nazis, but clamor to be treated in Israeli hospitals by those same "Nazis." They call the Israelis murderers, but whenever a group of Arabs wants to flee another group of Arabs -- those "Palestinians" who fled from King Hussein's Bedouin troops during the crackdown on Black September -- they try to ford the Jordan, arms raised, hoping desperately that they will be allowed to surrender to the Israeli "killers." 

And here, on his balcony, in the full security of knowing how careful the Israelis are, this Arab reporter stands, and sees the bombing, some twenty meters away, of one of those military targets that the Israelis aimed for, and hit, and once again, showed the world that denounces them -- what other country, anywhere, has engaged in such spectacularly pinpoint bombing designed to spare all but strictly military targets, even with those targets deliberately having been placed smack in the middle of, cheek by jowl with, civilian apartment buildings, schools, hospitals. 

Once again the Israeli Air Force amazes.

Posted on 12/27/2008 10:49 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Comments
27 Dec 2008
Send an emailsmokey

Well, actually, the US Armed Forces have done the same kind of precision targeting and bombing since late in the Vietnam War, and consistently at least since the first Gulf War.

And received even less credit for doing so.



29 Dec 2008
Send an emailLouis Schetlovski

The pinpoint bombing may have been accurate in this given example, but then why are all the world media reporting upward of 300 killed, 2000 wounded in Gaza ? Last night, NPR reported the instance of a woman and her four small daughters, all killed; a palestinian physician reporting  flocks of people coming to the hospital, looking for their missing loved ones, not knowing if they are dead or alive, telling of an 11-year old boy screaming "it's my brother, it's my brother" at recognizing his dead 8 year-old brother, then going into speechless shock. Are those examples also from pinpoint bombing ?