Israel/Palstine War - Twitter edition

[Plow]

it was pretty good, though a bit awkward how he attributes the start to world war 1 rather than the stuff that happened in the 50 years before that, but then goes on to explain that stuff somewhat too

[Mazmaz]

ALL THE ARAB NATIONS DUN DID IT.

[Plow]

shit is goin down >.>

[Plow]

more crazy vids coming in from the daylight hours, not up on youtube yet tho

[Plow]

[Plow]

Anderson Cooper is fucking insane.

That shirt is coming off soon.

[Salodin]

Is it open hostilities yet? How hard is Palestine fighting back?

[Plow]

It's hard to stay precisely up to date cuz of the time difference and because nobody's exactly sure how many are getting through.

They shot some 300 or so rockets on Tuesday I think it was, and best I can tell they're still shooting around 100 a day or more.

Anderson Cooper mentions in one of those he saw at least 9 rocket launches from Gaza City overnight, and most of their shots are multiple rockeets.


As I'm typing this Fox showed a graphic (they're the only ones paying attention...) saying:

Palestinians have fired around 1350 rockets.
Israel has intercepted roughly 300.
Israel says it has attacked ~1325 targets.

[Plow]

Andrea Mitchell reporting a meeting in Cairo to establish a peace treaty intending to lead to a further agreement within 2 weeks to a month.

[Plow]

She's giving it solid coverage on MSNBC, nice to see finally.

[Plow]

nevermind, she's on to fucking benghazi

[Waraji]

nevermind, she's on to fucking benghazi

Leave it to the Media Elite to press on with the real important issues.

[Khajit]

I'd like to know where he got the idea that 32% jewish 68% arab constitutes Jewish people as a majority. His inability to understand basic math makes me wonder what other facts he fucked up.

[BaneTheBrawler]

well the arabs are probably divided up even further based on various sects and other shit, so jews could conceivably be the largest cohesive group in the region.

anyway, I wish people called them missiles instead of rockets. Rockets sounds like some Estes type thing, or the shoulder-launched RPGs. It doesn't sound as severe as it really is.

[Khajit]

It was a large cohesive group. The palestinians are the same tribe as the people in Jordan with the only differences among the Palestinians themselves being that some were christian and some were Muslim so even if their distribution was evenly split in half they would still have the majority. If you categorize things even more you'd have to split demographics up into the other Jewish sects as well to ensure it isn't misleading.

[Apelila]

The whole thing sounds like a feudal war with nuclear weapons in play.

2012: When we do war, we go old school.

[Plow]

well the arabs are probably divided up even further based on various sects and other shit, so jews could conceivably be the largest cohesive group in the region.

anyway, I wish people called them missiles instead of rockets. Rockets sounds like some Estes type thing, or the shoulder-launched RPGs. It doesn't sound as severe as it really is.

they're pretty much a bigass cross between an estes rocket and an rpg >.>

[Plow]

as pathetic as it is, that's not some rigged shit, it's actual mass produced, unaimed rockets (hence not missiles)

they're primative to say the least... but they're quite proud of israel spending 50k per intercept of like literally $20 rockets

[Plow]

which is also why the collateral damage argument is hard to make on israel, they do precision strikes on known militants and catch innocent people...

hamas points rockets at israel and shoots

like, literally, point them in the general direction of a city and hope they get through

[Demosthenes11]

when one side is funded by half the world and the other is funded by coffee cans and a few trust funds, it's expected