Frosted Flake posted:

But their bullshit doesn't even make... like... how the gently caress are you going to treat FIBUA/MOUT as frictionless terrain because the built landscape is just a social construct or whatever?

Concrete is... well it's loving concrete! It doesn't matter if you don't want to see it as an obstacle or whatever... it's... you know... an obstacle.

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Worthy of particular emphasis is Weizman’s reference to a technique called “walking through walls”:

Furthermore, soldiers used none of the streets, roads, alleys, or courtyards that constitute the syntax of the city, and none of the external doors, internal stairwells, and windows that constitute the order of buildings, but rather moved horizontally through party walls, and vertically through holes blasted in ceilings and floors.

Weizman goes on to interview a commander of the Israeli Paratrooper Brigade. The commander describes his forces as acting “like a worm that eats its way forward, emerging at points and then disappearing. We were thus moving from the interior of homes to their exterior in a surprising manner and in places we were not expected, arriving from behind and hitting the enemy that awaited us behind a corner.”

This is how the troops could “adjust the relevant urban space to our needs,” he explains, and not the other way around.

Indeed, the commander thus exhorted his troops as follows: “There is no other way of moving! If until now you were used to moving along roads and sidewalks, forget it! From now on we all walk through walls!”

Weizman illustrates the other side of this terrifyingly dislocating experience by quoting an article originally published during the 2002 invasion. Here, a Palestinian woman, whose home was raided, recounts her witnessing of this technique:

'Imagine it—you’re sitting in your living room, which you know so well; this is the room where the family watches television together after the evening meal. . . . And, suddenly, that wall disappears with a deafening roar, the room fills with dust and debris, and through the wall pours one soldier after the other, screaming orders. You have no idea if they’re after you, if they’ve come to take over your home, or if your house just lies on their route to somewhere else. The children are screaming, panicking. . . . Is it possible to even begin to imagine the horror experienced by a five-year-old child as four, six, eight, twelve soldiers, their faces painted black, submachine guns pointed everywhere, antennas protruding from their backpacks, making them look like giant alien bugs, blast their way through that wall?'

Uncle Wemus posted:

White House spokesperson John Kirby said the U.S. recognizes that thousands of civilians have been killed and injured and infrastructure has been damaged in the shelling in Gaza, telling reporters that "we’re not accepting of any single civilian death," but said that it's “obvious to us” that Israel is “trying to minimize” civilian casualties.

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1719458248728650106?s=20

Frosted Flake posted:

I know Hezbollah started sending out Christmas cards and made peace with the Maronites,

Uncle Wemus posted:

White House spokesperson John Kirby said the U.S. recognizes that thousands of civilians have been killed and injured and infrastructure has been damaged in the shelling in Gaza, telling reporters that "we’re not accepting of any single civilian death," but said that it's “obvious to us” that Israel is “trying to minimize” civilian casualties.

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1719458248728650106?s=20

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22 min ago

Israel downplays intelligence ministry document that proposed relocating of millions of Gazans to Egypt
From CNN's Kyle Blaine and Kevin Flower

Israel's prime minister is downplaying a leaked intelligence ministry document that proposed the relocation of millions of Palestinians to the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.

"This is a preliminary paper, like dozens of such papers prepared by all political and security echelons,” Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement. “The ‘day after’ is a topic that has not been discussed by official Israeli channels, which are now focused on dismantling Hamas' governing and military abilities."
The document is dated October 13 — just days after the Hamas terror attack — and was published on the website Sicha Mekomit. In it, the intelligence ministry lays out three options for dealing with civilians in Gaza after the Hamas attacks and the outbreak of war.

The paper’s authors concluded that “Alternative C," which calls for relocating Gaza’s civilian population to the northern Sinai, would be best for Israel’s long-term security.

As part of the plan, tent cities would be constructed in the area, with more permanent cities being constructed at a later date. The plan also calls for a humanitarian corridor to aid the resettled population and a security perimeter to be created to prevent them from entering Israel.

The acknowledgment of the paper by the Israeli government will likely intensify suspicion amongst Arab nations in the region that Israel is deliberately trying to displace Palestinians permanently. Egypt and Jordan have warned that any plan to transfer Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank to their respective countries would escalate conflict in the region.

Good Citizen posted:

Uncle Wemus posted:

White House spokesperson John Kirby said the U.S. recognizes that thousands of civilians have been killed and injured and infrastructure has been damaged in the shelling in Gaza, telling reporters that "we’re not accepting of any single civilian death," but said that it's “obvious to us” that Israel is “trying to minimize” civilian casualties.

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1719458248728650106?s=20

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I am honestly surprised Israel took responsibility for this one instead of claiming another Islamic Jihad super rocket misfire.

WoodrowSkillson posted:

yeah israel could exile or murder every christian in the country and it would not change their support because its not based on liking israel or israelis, they want them to start the apocalypse

Calibanibal posted:

A misfired Hamas rocket hit my dick and made it not work. And thats terrible

fits my needs posted:

no plans for the day after? interesting.

Calibanibal posted:

A misfired Hamas rocket hit my dick and made it not work. And thats terrible

Tsitsikovas posted:

Pow! Just hezbollah dot co-op. So whats your parents racket? Hassan Nasrallah? NO poo poo.

Uncle Wemus posted:

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1719458248728650106?s=20

fits my needs posted:

The acknowledgment of the paper by the Israeli government will likely intensify suspicion amongst Arab nations in the region that Israel is deliberately trying to displace Palestinians permanently.

Uncle Wemus posted:

White House spokesperson John Kirby said the U.S. recognizes that thousands of civilians have been killed and injured and infrastructure has been damaged in the shelling in Gaza, telling reporters that "we’re not accepting of any single civilian death," but said that it's “obvious to us” that Israel is “trying to minimize” civilian casualties.

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1719458248728650106?s=20

Admiral Bosch posted:

https://twitter.com/Aldanmarki/status/1719339640782569563

antipattern posted:

It's absolutely insane that zionist nazis are openly committing genocide and everyone who could help stop it just sits on their rear end and watches the massacre happen. The west obviously wants it since they're already writing laws to make opposing genocide illegal.

Cuckbullah should at least take out the iaf but no, they're too busy making loving trailers or some bullshit

gently caress You And Diebold posted:

HiroProtagonist posted:

people have to see right through this at some point, right?

don't answer me

HiroProtagonist posted:

people have to see right through this at some point, right?

don't answer me

gradenko_2000 posted:

Marc Maronite

Sancho Banana posted:

Sidenote - Which one of you posted about how Egypt reveals a new archeological finding whenever people are mad at its government?

https://www.businessinsider.com/ancient-egyptian-book-dead-buried-3-500-year-mummies-2023-10

Fleetwood posted:

however, the IOF still needs roads to get to the point where they can disembark and then caterpillar through walls

Mr. Sharps posted:

the falling bombs sound exactly like the “bunker busters” that were all over the news during operation Iraqi freedom. its messing me up to have this sound of a weapon be a familiar point of contact in another atrocity

Hubbert posted:

fits my needs posted:

no plans for the day after? interesting.

Sancho Banana posted:

If you haven't seen through it by now, you never will. Alternatively, you actually have and are just actively lying to yourself and to others while deep down knowing the truth.

Hubbert posted: