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ProgressiveProfessor

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2. More bullshit about the Hamas using bottle rockets? Give it up, its a bad lie at best

Reply to eridani (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 18, 2012, 12:49 PM

Nov 2012

that has been beat down repeatedly. Still the lies and those who post them continue.

Quick Summary:
The smallest of the Hamas rockets, the Qassam 3, carries a 10kg war head. By comparisons, the basic M67 hand grenade has 6.5 ounces of explosive fill. It is great for killing everyone in a pillbox or room. It can blow up cars. It has a lethal radius of 5 meters a casualty producing radius of 15 meters and fragments can disperse as far as 230 meters.

In addition to the Qassam, there are longer range rockets with larger warheads being launched, including some that hit in Jerusalem.

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Ten Things You Need to Know About Gaza [View all] Viking12 Nov 2012 OP

The most important part of the adult social role-- eridani Nov 2012 #1

More bullshit about the Hamas using bottle rockets? Give it up, its a bad lie at best ProgressiveProfessor Nov 2012 #2

Qassam rockets are still high school science project rockets. n/t eridani Nov 2012 #3

With 10 kg warheads? Your attempted whitewashing of the danger posed by Qassams is appalling. ProgressiveProfessor Nov 2012 #4

Still unbelievably chickenshit compared to what an actual air force can do to you eridani Nov 2012 #11

So anything goes if you are Hamas? ProgressiveProfessor Nov 2012 #12

That would be a corollary of the more general theorem that eridani Nov 2012 #15

Military conflicts should never be fair fights ProgressiveProfessor Nov 2012 #16

Yeah, just keep the Palestinians in Gaza prisoncamp.. ananda Nov 2012 #19

Much of this started with Hamas taking over Gaza at gunpoint ProgressiveProfessor Nov 2012 #20

Pardon? Israel started starving them when they ELECTED a Hamas government eridani Nov 2012 #22

Participants of Israel's Internet "megaphone" arriving in 3...2... nt Comrade_McKenzie Nov 2012 #5

Fortunately, I have most of them on ignore. liberalhistorian Nov 2012 #6

That's why I posted this. Viking12 Nov 2012 #9

Thank you for posting this, I wish more Americans liberalhistorian Nov 2012 #7

I read the post, and I read it as supporting the reason that Israel has taken the Honeycombe8 Nov 2012 #18

Hamas happens to be a political party. It is like the American civil rights movement eridani Nov 2012 #23

Maybe they should trade those rockets they're firing B2G Nov 2012 #8

Thanks for posting this. The situation is complex. And depressing. Matariki Nov 2012 #10

I've said it before and I'll say it again. 99Forever Nov 2012 #13

posts like yours gobsmack me. they display an obliviousness cali Nov 2012 #17

Where the hell do you come up with that horseshit? 99Forever Nov 2012 #21

Our international criminals versus those international criminals. Egalitarian Thug Nov 2012 #14

Some of the "discussions" I have read in this thread arthritisR_US Nov 2012 #24