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Do Rafah like Nagasaki...? (Original Post) myohmy2 May 12 OP
His eyes look dead. 2naSalit May 12 #1
Day Drinking Deep State Witch May 12 #3
Absolutely Wifes husband May 12 #14
They Have For a While DET May 12 #8
How do I say this gently? lonely bird May 12 #2
If Israel wanted to do that . . . Richard D May 12 #4
This is what seems the most obvious. Nixie May 13 #16
But, as I understand it, the US is witholding wnylib May 13 #21
Why are right wingers being posted here? Mosby May 12 #5
To mock them? To know the extent of their evil? nt RandomNumbers May 12 #7
"Do not post right-wing talking points or smears" Mosby May 12 #12
It's important to know what they're saying. Oopsie Daisy May 13 #23
Can't wait for the day when, bluestarone May 12 #6
We need to give Israel massive bombs, the largest possible, then work with them to minimize casualties . . . Journeyman May 12 #9
aside from how.... SICK... this is......... Takket May 12 #10
and Egypt and Jordan and Saudi Arabia... DBoon May 12 #13
Not to mention that it would turn Israel into an instant pariah state. Crunchy Frog May 13 #17
He's a stupid motherfucker. SoFlaBro May 12 #11
Interesting take, Lindsey... LowerManhattanite May 12 #15
Imperial Japan had taken over most of Asia and the Pacific Crunchy Frog May 13 #18
Lindsey really looks like he's developing dementia. Crunchy Frog May 13 #19
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Shakespeare Ping Tung May 13 #20
Very self righteous BS from someone whose party embraces neo Nazis. wnylib May 13 #22

DET

(1,353 posts)
8. They Have For a While
Sun May 12, 2024, 08:34 PM
May 12

I bet that man deeply regrets the last eight years of his life. If he’d just had a spine…

Richard D

(8,855 posts)
4. If Israel wanted to do that . . .
Sun May 12, 2024, 08:23 PM
May 12

. . . they would not need US bombs and would have done that by October 10. In fact, if the US withholds providing precision bombs, Israel may have to use their stock of non-precision bombs, leading to even more civilian casualties.

wnylib

(21,958 posts)
21. But, as I understand it, the US is witholding
Mon May 13, 2024, 05:34 AM
May 13

only large bombs that would destroy huge areas indiscriminately, not precision bombs. And Israel has precision bombs.

The other main concern is what to do with the people who are vacating Rafah. Biden has offered to provide tents for an encampment and food, water, and infrastructure to support those camps.

The Hamas leaders could be destroyed with more precise bombs. There is a problem, though, that if the underground Hamas infrastructure remains intact at Rafah, new leaders could just set up another command center there. Because Rafah is so close to the Egyptian border, and the tunnels extend into Egypt, more terrorist fighters and weapons could be smuggled in through them if they remain intact.

How can the Hamas infrastructure be destroyed without destroying the surface infrastructure of homes, businesses, schools, hospitals, etc? Would it be possible, once the Hamas leaders and fighters are taken out, to fill in the tunnels with a solid enough material so that they can't be used?





bluestarone

(17,225 posts)
6. Can't wait for the day when,
Sun May 12, 2024, 08:29 PM
May 12

The blood stops flowing through their veins. Everyone of them. Total MONSTERS!!

Journeyman

(15,060 posts)
9. We need to give Israel massive bombs, the largest possible, then work with them to minimize casualties . . .
Sun May 12, 2024, 08:43 PM
May 12

Other than in a fevered alcoholic dream, how would that work?

Takket

(21,797 posts)
10. aside from how.... SICK... this is.........
Sun May 12, 2024, 09:31 PM
May 12

does he not understand that Israel dropping a nuke ANYWHERE in Gaza is going to lead to contamination of ISRAEL as well??????

DBoon

(22,474 posts)
13. and Egypt and Jordan and Saudi Arabia...
Sun May 12, 2024, 09:38 PM
May 12

Any contemporary nuclear bomb would devastate many nations

Crunchy Frog

(26,738 posts)
17. Not to mention that it would turn Israel into an instant pariah state.
Mon May 13, 2024, 02:23 AM
May 13

Then they really would be facing an existential threat.

LowerManhattanite

(2,395 posts)
15. Interesting take, Lindsey...
Sun May 12, 2024, 09:47 PM
May 12

…‘cause we wiped out tens of thousands of innocents in Nagasaki with the dropping of “Fat Man” on the city…

…but go ahead and tell on yourself some more.

Sad part here is, he’s not at all alone in championing that sort of mayhem as a clapback at Hamas.

And that’s all I have to say about that. 🚶🏾?♂️

Crunchy Frog

(26,738 posts)
18. Imperial Japan had taken over most of Asia and the Pacific
Mon May 13, 2024, 02:32 AM
May 13

and killed tens of millions of people. They had killed hundreds of thousands of US troops and had the means to potentially kill many thousands more.

You can't possibly compare them with a group that controls a tiny enclave of impoverished stateless people, who managed to carry out a single, day long, violent incursion, however heinous it may have been.

Not saying that the bombings in Japan were justified. Just that they can't possibly be compared with the bombings of Gaza.

wnylib

(21,958 posts)
22. Very self righteous BS from someone whose party embraces neo Nazis.
Mon May 13, 2024, 05:43 AM
May 13

This idiocy belongs in the category of nuking hurricanes, ingesting bleach, and sticking UV tubes up the butt.

Are there enough neurons collectively in the MAGA party to create one whole brain?

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