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Report: Hamas trying to develop explosive UAV
Roee Nahmias and AP
Published: 26.04.08, 12:36
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1. UAV's now Nukes Next
Dan ,   Titusville, FL USA   (04.26.08)
The problem here is that Israel & the West is trying to conduct a politically correct war. The Islamic terrorists (oops...will the US State Department let me use that term) are out to massacre Jews, Christians, Americans, Europeans and destroy just about everything God has created. They have no concept of Due Process or Rule of Law. The Islamic Terrorists know that the rules of the game is to murder and destroy more of your enemy than the enemy does to you. Sadly innocents die in war including 13 yr old Palestinian girls but we did not kill her. The Palestinian Islamic Terrorists did. We had better stop this idiotic step by step ratcheting up of hostilities as Hamas has moved to drones carrying explosives and a nuclear weapon will not be far behind. Now is the time to strike and strike hard against Hamas, Hezbollah, the Egyptian Brotherhood and these other nutcase Islamic terrorist groups and tell Iran that they are next if they do not behave. You cannot negotiate with 7th Century Islamic Barbarian terrorists. Must we sacrifice Tel Aviv or New York before the West wakes up?
2. With drones they don't need shahidim
Sheila ,   Jerusalem Israel   (04.26.08)
3. Israel should uproot Hamas once and for all.
Robert Bernier ,   Tel Aviv   (04.26.08)
Under the circumstances, what is needed is not negotiations with Hamas, but strong military action against it. Israel should not undertake a brief incursion, but a major invasion of Gaza to uproot Hamas once and for all. If the Israeli leadership doesn’t take such action, it risks Hamas growing into an even greater menace to the State of Israel than it is today as described at : http://xrl.us/biz8x
4. How about learning how to live in peace instead of...
Psalms 83 ,   Selah   (04.26.08)
obtaining new drones that will cause futher reponces from israel !!! ?
5. Peraceloving Israel on the other hand ...
Chanalau, Tova ,   London, UK   (04.26.08)
.. is not interested in acquiring such primitive arms as it has enough US supplied tanks, F16s, Apaches, guns, bombs, missiles, chemicals etc to blow up Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Saud Arabia a 100 times over.
6. kakalau get a life
. ,   .   (04.26.08)
were u bullied at school ?????????
7. Islamic University based terrorism enter here
benyamin s m j ,   tel aviv   (04.26.08)
Destroyed the Islamic University and comfortable for the rest of the generations I'm one of those who entered the Islamic University days through the European Society I saw for myself the great danger and threat to us if this university and left our nation on what it Dealing with the Muslim Brotherhood everywhere for the success of the university and building a generation Capable of fighting by all means possible and build in the university laboratories and factories under the huge University of industry and ballistic missiles which we are a very big risk and towns destroyed and will be the winner
8. Too late! Olmert just handed them the design
Allan ,   US   (04.26.08)
plans.
9. #6 haha, i bet with you she was!
tito   (04.26.08)
10. inaccurate emotive language
allen ,   x   (04.26.08)
How can an unmanned aerial vehicle be a 'kamikaze'? Kamikaze is now a word used for maned suicidal attacks UAV means "Unmanned " its an oxymoron, Is someone deliberately choosing inaccurate emotive language?
11. maybe
(04.26.08)
hamas, instead of using money to develope this useless device, should feed their people and care about the infrastructure! useless society!
12. No problem...
Micha   (04.26.08)
the end of the arab world, well, at least those that refuse to live in peace with others, is coming to an end. Kakalau, are you dressing up in your hood or your swastika uniform? Which will it be for your swan dance?
13. learning from Israel
(04.26.08)
in the first stages of 1948 war, Jews had meager arms as compared to the Arab armies. But, Jews did not lack the manpower. Jews made use of the truces to smuggle arms from EU. The situation nowadays is different, Palestinians are not facing Arab idiots.
14. # 4 Simply correct, but when...
Soeren ,   Cologne/Germany   (04.26.08)
... these idiots would have enough brain to understand this, they would have founded their state 60 years ago. The fact that they are fighting against Israel for more than 60 years now – simply means that they don't get it... Would like to know from where the money is coming for this "project" – while alledgedly their population has "hunger". In my opinion Israel shouldn't accept a truce with Hamas which only serves Hamas to re-organize its fighters and buy new weapons. When Hamas wants peace than they shall say so and of course finally ACCEPT Israel. If they want war they shall be fought to the end...
15. To Mr. Bernier #3. What Israel SHOULD Do.
Maansingh ,   The Netherlands   (04.26.08)
You write :".. a major invasion of Gaza to uproot Hamas ..". NO. Israel should NOT undertake a major invasion of Gaza Strip. There is NO need for it. It will only jeopardise the international goodwill Israel is experiencing currently. What Israel SHOULD do, and continue to do, is to REACT on the action of Hamas. ISRAEL should tell Hamas for every rocket fired into Israel -- one Hamas member will be eliminated. And IF an Israeli dies at their hands -- then 10 (ten) Hamas members will be eliminated. ISRAEL should tell these things to Hamas so that they will know the RULE of the GAME, namely : you commit the action, you have ALREADY chosen the reaction. So that things will be clear to them, i.e. Hamas.
16. isnt it time to say gloves off not how much can I give Abbas
zionist forever   (04.26.08)
If they are now so well equiped that they have UAVS to use as a weapon then the time for an invasion of Gaza is well over due. Rockets dont have a guidence system and the terrorist has to be at the launch site making them targets if the soilders can sometimes hit an in some cases hit them before they manage to launch. A man with a UAV, the controler can sit safley hidden away while somebody else launches it from a reasonably safe distance depending on the range and guidence system. Suicide bombers can be kept out by building walls and carefull by being observant. UAVS are a poor mans guided missle depending on the range the UAV us capable of they can sit safley hidden away. Are we going to wait for them to develop good enough UAVS to hit Ben Gurion airport before we decide enough is enough and the best defense is a good offense. Instead we have a pathetic man who is more worried about his noble prizes than the saftey of the country whose prefered tactic is make more and more concesiont to Abbas so he can do a quick but bad deal before he leaves office.
17. 5
zionist forever   (04.26.08)
Why dont we just give Hamas F16s and Apaches then we can even the odds. I get the impresion your justifying the idea that Hamas should get explosive UAVS because Israel has some big guns of its own. If we all had the same weapons and were evenly matched would that make you feel better?
18. To Benyamin #7. WHAT Happened.
Maansingh ,   The Netherlands   (04.26.08)
You write :" Islamic University ... will be the winner ". What kind of NONSENSE are you speaking ! You sound a bit deranged. WHAT happened -- did someone hit you on your head ? You don't sound like an Israeli -- and THUS your talkback has absolutely NO value.
19. gee aren't they suppossed to be having a fuel shortage?
Mike ,   Jerusalem   (04.27.08)
20. Nuclear Proxy Armed Terrorists and UAVs
Lance Winslow ,   Los Angeles, CA (USA   (04.27.08)
Dan, Yep, this is pretty much what we believe comes next too. Our Online Think Tank is all over the various scenarios and none of them are acceptable and all of them are worrisome indeed.
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