Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
Mar 30, 2011 at 7:46am
Really take this in:
A Hamas official quoted by the International Crisis Group, or ICG, said the move violated the "reasonable rules of the game: that when Palestinian projectiles hit open space ... Israel aims at open space in response."
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Oct '10
Re: Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
Ah, yes. This is why a soldier on a battlefield who feels an enemy's bullet whiz by his ear is morally obliged to fire his next round into the dirt. It's only fair. Good manners and all.
May '10
Re: Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
In that case, much bloodshed could be averted if they turned their creativity toward making rude gestures.
Re: Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
I don't even know where to start, really.
Aug '10
Re: Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
Overwhelming professionalism is no excuse for success.
I suppose David was too tall for Goliath anyway ?
Jun '10
Re: Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
Ah...it's a game. Well, that explains everything. Where are my tennis whites and racket? I say chaps, anyone for tennis? I say, you there with the funny looking vest...
May '10
Re: Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
The Harrison Bergeron rules of war.
May '10
Re: Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
The IDF's water balloon funding might not be cut afterall.
Jan '11
Re: Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
What if the Israelis fire first? Do the miss-for-miss rules still apply?
Jun '10
Re: Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
Fetchez la vache!
Feb '11
Re: Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
Actually, it seems like it should be: if A aims at B and hits open space, then B should aim at open space and hit A.
(I hate to make light of such an awful situation, but how else do you make it through the day?)
Jun '10
Re: Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
I suggest we move this to a virtual platform. Let the best Israeli kid and the best Gazan kid engage in a game of Mortal Combat and avoid the whole "empty space" thing.
I'll put my money on the Israeli kid.
Feb '11
Re: Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
The UN and others have been saying this for years. It's what they mean when they say "disproportionate."
Jan '11
Re: Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
Disproportionate = hitting what you're aiming for.
Jul '10
Re: Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
Don't start nuttin', won't be nuttin'.
Aug '10
Re: Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
Sir Robin of Gaza I presume ?
Dec '10
Re: Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
Exactly.
Dec '10
Re: Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
Sounds like something I might see in a Looney Tunes cartoon.
According to Hamas' rules of self-defense, I cannot shoot any assailants that are shooting at my family until they manage to hit one of them. Until then I can only return fire if I deliberately miss.
Edited on Mar 30, 2011 at 11:35amDec '10
Re: Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
Proportionality in a war of survival is profoundly immoral. Proportionality means that there's an acceptable, comfortable level of death and terror that the two sides can agree upon. Of course the Europeans want proportionality between Hamas and Israel, because they don't care if some Jews and Arabs die every month. But Israel ought to take the moral position that massive disproportionality will convince Hamas to cease its military activity altogether. By the way, the deaths in Itamar and Jerusalem count as grounds for deadly retaliation against Gazan terror groups and their Hamas protectors.
Dec '10
Re: Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
One of the reasons the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy advises travelers to keep a towel with them at all times is for protection against one of the most fearsome creatures in the galaxy, the ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. Though it will attack and kill you on sight, the Bugblatter Beast is incredibly stupid. If you can't see it, it assumes that it can't see you... so your only defense is to cover your head with your towel, at which point the Beast will realize you can't see it and will leave you alone. For some reason, that came to mind.
Aug '10
Re: Amazing Hamas Comment of the Day
Thanks, any chance your child is named Trillian ?
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