Reply #37: The sonic booms were deliberate effort to terrorize the Palestinians in order to

[Tom Joad]

obtain a political goal.
I think any "recon flight" could have been done at subsonic speeds. I never heard even Israel claim these were recon flights. Not to mention that these flights take place at night, to disrupt sleep, and make it all the more disturbing.

In fact, i wonder if any recon flights could be done at supersonic speeds.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1453692

It's Israel's latest weapon: Without notice, an Israeli jet fighter flies low over the densely populated Gaza Strip, breaking the sound barrier.

The massive sonic boom often breaks windows, shakes entire apartment buildings and terrifies the people of Gaza.

Just about every night for the last five months, 10-year-old Basma Abid Adiam has had trouble sleeping.

Her father says during the day she often seems distant. Basma's problems started when the Israeli air force began breaking the sound barrier almost nightly over her home.

The almost nightly sonic booms are the Israeli air force's attempt to turn the Palestinian population against the militants in Gaza and help stop the attacks.

Targeting innocent civilians violates the Geneva Conventions. Both Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups have asked the Israeli High Court to stop the air force from this practice.
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Notice nothing of this imaginative and creative nonsense about this being "recon flights".
BTW, i believe the sonic booms have stopped, thanks to the efforts of Amnesty International, B'Tselem (also attacked regularly in this forum) and many others. So those throwing out this fiction regarding these being vitally necessary recon flights will have to explain why it has been possible to stop the sonic booms. Israel decided it doesn't need to look anymore?