Nearly half of the air-to-ground munitions Israel has dropped on the Gaza Strip are unguided or “dumb” bombs, CNN reported Thursday, citing a US intelligence assessment.
The report said Israel had used 29,000 air-to-ground munitions in its bombardment of Gaza, a total that does not include artillery shells and tank munitions that are also being fired on the Strip. The assessment from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence found 40-45% of the 29,000 munitions have been dumb bombs, and the rest have been precise guided munitions.
Unguided munitions are less precise and are generally considered more of a threat to civilians, but Israel is also slaughtering civilians with precision-guided munitions. A report from +972 Magazine revealed Israel is purposefully targeting civilian areas and launching strikes that might kill one Hamas commander, knowing hundreds of civilians will be killed.
Amnesty International conducted an investigation that found Israel targeted two homes in Gaza full of civilians using Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM), US-provided kits that turn dumb bombs into precision-guided munitions. The strikes killed 40 people, including 19 children, and Amnesty is calling for it to be investigated as a war crime.
The intelligence assessment comes after President Biden called Israel’s Gaza bombing “indiscriminate” but vowed to keep supporting it anyway. Despite the massive civilian death toll in Gaza, the US has no plans to restrict military aid to Israel.
No more money should go to Israel, especially in the midst of war…
When and why did we begin sending Israel $3.8 billion a year in the first place???? I did not vote for it.
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/04/us-israel-aid-military-funding-chart
Isn’t Egypt paid a tidy sum to play nice with the ASI, as well ?
Yes
That was part of the Carter plan. Give them money so they don’t attack Israel again.
DUH-we have a representative democracy in theory-not a direct referendum democracy.
The USA is a dictatorship by committee and a reverse fascist regime. In real fascism, the state makes business behave for the good of the majority, here it’s business that makes the state behave the way that’s good for both the state and business. The hoi poloi aren’t even considered.
Mussolini,who created fascism-in Fascism,the state and the corporation are one.
True, but “corporation” has a somewhat different meaning in that usage than in the “joint stock/limited liability business enterprise” meaning common in the US. In early 20th century fascism, “corporation” referred to something like a guild system, with each industry organized and operated by worker/employer “syndicates” under state supervision/coordination.
Yes, and no money should go to feed the hordes invading our southern borders,corporations that don’t pay taxes,and any University that allows threats of violence against anybody.
“…the hordes invading our southern border…”
If it comes as consolation, my dear Jacobin, in a few years (likely less), the USA will be a place NOBODY wants to live. And anyone in the USA who isn’t (rich, male, Caucasian, and/or The Right Kind Of Christian) at that time will be fleeing north AND south.
Well, that’s the thing: The only way to stop people from moving to the US is to make it such a sh*thole country that no one would want to live here.
Which, not coincidentally, is what anti-immigrationists have been working overtime to accomplish.
Or, or, and hear me out here…
Maybe if US policies toward Central- and South-American countries didn’t ruin those societies and economies and democracies, then those countries could be nice places to live and people wouldn’t WANT to, or have to, leave.
Latin countries were also ruined by the Conquistadores, many catholic clergy who enslaved Indians and oppose birth control,European slavers,and tin horn dictators.What is in the minds of people who spawn out six children that they cannot afford to raise decently?
I think you just answered your own question within your own question.
“…catholic clergy…”
“…oppose birth control…”
“…spawn out six children…”
Inasmuch as American domestic poverty and dwindling social-safety net programs funnel new enlistees to the military, Catholic opposition to birth control creates more “cradle Catholics”.
The globalists plan to disrupt the US, and then make it over as an experiment. every dog wants to pee on the hydrant
Rare as it is Jake, you made me laugh.
Hell, I almost agree with several of his posts today.
Both the USA and Israel were experiments that didn’t work out the way they could have, all because of their governments’ selfish ambitions and greed, i.e. pride and avarice, those are two of the 7 deadly sins.
The battle between good and evil is eternal.Often people buy houses,pursue educations,take jobs,take mates, and these things workout badly.The revolutions in
Russia,China,Iran,Nicaragua-people had hopes and things worked out terribly. To attribute pride and avarice to only the US and Israel makes no sense.
And, sometimes it’s just a battle between evil and evil, with lots of ‘collateral damage’, isn’t it? Hamas/Israel are both evil in this case.
Who are the “globalists” ?
Usually within that conspiracy-theory trope, the most potent “globalists” are American – and they plan to make over the rest of the world (in the USA’s image) as THEIR experiment.
The WEF, for starters.
Yes. The UN was made up by Wash. and everything going on now is in the Charter. That is everything Wash. decides what to use for its own benefit of more power and wealth for the elites in both gov. and business.
Ask the NYC Mayor how unlimited illegal immigration is working for his city. You must have it backwards, it’s the ones for illegal immigration that have been working overtime to accomplish that. I have nothing against legal immigration, but do have something against allowing people in without background checks and putting them on the dole, especially when there are no good jobs where most people can’t make a decent living today in this inflated economy, and the newcomers will have it worse.
There’s no such thing as “illegal immigration” — the US Constitution (Article I, Section 9; Article V; Amendment 10) clearly and unambiguously forbids the federal government to regulate immigration, so any laws purporting to do so are, per Madison v. Marbury, void.
Why on earth should any give a sh*t whether you “have anything against” them moving and traveling without your permission?
“…clearly and unambiguously forbids the federal government to regulate immigration…”
That’s tremendously amusing to me, I’d have thought that one of the few “true” purposes of the US federal government (up there with defense of the Union).
Thank you for the clarification ! It’s becoming clear that, in addition to Christians needing to actually read their bibles cover-to-cover, Americans need to read their Constitution and Bill of Rights from start to finish.
Hells, Canadians VERY much need to read our Charter of Rights and Freedoms word-for-word. We assume it’s an adaptation of your Constitution (but swapping in CDN spellings, like ‘neighbour’ for ‘neighbor’) but it REALLY REALLY is not. In fact I think in the CRF’s preamble it even SAYS the gov’t can set aside all rights “in times of necessity” and boy howdy didn’t the Panickdemic set a low m.f.-ing bar for the suspension of civil rights we thought were enshrined.
“The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights
and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by
law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.” (Emphasis mine)
And ‘demonstrably justified’ is not defined anywhere within the document.
If the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled on this – you’ll have to talk to my Doctor Lawyer cousin, not me.
The US Constitution has been trashed by Wash. for a long, long time.
So what’s the point in having a border? Without a border you really have no country. As one radio pundit has said for years, ‘language, borders and culture’. From your logic, anyone that wants to come into the country is welcome. It’s idiotic.
“So what’s the point in having a border?”
Administrative purposes. So a government can decide who and where to care about, and who and where not-to.
“So what’s the point in having a border?”
Point for whom?
Governments are tax farmers. Borders are the fence lines they use to keep their mutual livestock (you) separate. Or, if you prefer, they’re gang turf lines used to determine whether you get extorted by MS-13 or by the Crips.
“Without a border you really have no country. ”
You seem to be confusing the notion of “country” with the notion of “state.”
My logic is not that anyone who wants to come into “the country” is “welcome.” My logic is that if someone wants to come into the “country,” it’s none of my fucking business, or yours, any more than it’s our business if someone else wants to eat at McDonald’s or catch a Def Leppard reunion show.
So , it’s not our business since we bankroll them and give them all this free stuff at the taxpayers expense? Thought you consider yourself an anarchist. Anarchists are against taxation last time I heard. You sir, are a big phony.
Per capita, immigrants — “legal” and “illegal” — pay more in taxes, consume less in government benefits, and commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans.
Or, to put it a different way, they subsidize our fat, lazy asses while making our streets safer.
And even if the opposite was true, as an anarchist, I favor ending taxation and “government benefits,” not impeding people’s travel, abducting them, etc. as a way to increase the revenue or preserve the “benefits.”
Well, I disagree with your logic in many ways. Seems you have no problem with anyone coming into the country and taking resources from people who were born here and contributed into the system in many cases their entire lives, because that’s what is happening. Most of these people coming in, don’t speak the language, have no discernable job skills, and do take jobs from Amricans, and are costing the U.S.taxpayers billions of dollars in providing services to these invaders. It’s bad enough that the U.S. is sending billions upon billions of dollars to other countries for wars that they have no business being involved in, but we are also inviting anyone into the country forcing the U.S. taxpayers to fund their new arrivals. I believe you are way off base on this one Thomas.
“Seems you have no problem with anyone coming into the country and taking resources from people who were born here and contributed into the system in many cases their entire lives”
I have a problem with “the system” — I don’t support anyone “taking resources from people,” regardless of where any of them were born. And I don’t support violently impeding travel/residence on the basis of magical gang turf lines so that such an evil “system” can shamble along a little while longer … or even though immigration, in point of fact, helps keep that “system” solvent.
See my post above yours on the board.
I stand by my post. You are becoming more and more of a petty cyber bully. I realize you must not like women, the way you disrespect their posts, (I keep track of this). But, hey, it’s your little fiefdom here, so let it all hang out. So, by what logic is it good to give immigrants free stuff, especially housing and health care when so many Americans can’t afford either today. If you have a bad health issue, and your company provides it, you’re just one paycheck away from financial ruin. And, where are all the jobs? Why are they living on the street? The cities can’t cope with the numbers. And, why do you quote the constitution when you profess to be an ‘anarchist’? You fail as a moderator and really fail in debates all the time. You add nothing to these boards except your usual bluster and fear of being wrong, in this case, you must manufacture some sort of ideal in your imagination; that’s the only way I think you could come up with such a nonsense reply. If you don’t want me to come here, ban me. It’s not as good as it used to be under Raimondo, and you’re the reason. Bye! p.s. learn the history of Ellis Island and past immigration policy before you start with your rude personal take on the subject for a little enlightenment. Bye again!
“It’s not as good as it used to be under Raimondo, and you’re the reason.”
I didn’t kill Justin. And Justin was never a comment moderator. In point of fact, he didn’t want there to BE commenting, he occasionally (and unsuccessfully) tried to have commenters he didn’t like banned, and eventually he managed to get commenting on his own articles turned off. So he had nothing whatsoever to do with your complaints about the commenting moderation here.
I know the story of Ellis Island. After an activist Supreme Court miracled up a federal power to regulate immigration — without citing any constitution provision which enumerated a power, and ignoring the constitutional provisions which forbade such a power — the feds eventually took over immigrant processing from the Port Authority of New York and opened the Ellis Island facility. But even then, one didn’t even need a passport to enter the US until 1947, and even after that only at major ports of entry, not to cross the Mexican or Canadian border (that didn’t happen until after 9/11).
They,pray explain to me,why so many people are coming here from Latin America,the mid East,and and Asia. how many Americans are migrating to North Korea or Venezuela?
Because at present, migrants’ home countries are in a relatively worse state than the USA is.
Shortly, that is likely to switch.
Also, if the USA hadn’t done decades of destructive and anti-democratic meddling in all those regions you mention – people would have a nice and liveable homeland & wouldn’t need to go elsewhere.
Also – with a couple of historical exceptions, the one place the USA is unlikely to bomb and destroy, is the USA.
They’re coming here because they believe they’ll get a free ride and lots of free stuff. And, if they are so poor, why do they pay the coyotes thousands of dollars to sneak them across the border. Ask the Mayor of NYC how that’s working for his city.
Maybe the “…thousands of dollars…” was the sum total of EVERYTHING they could scrape together ? If they’re desperate enough to come to the USA illegally, they cannot have had enough money to have tried legally.
One doesn’t have to have a lot of money to come here legally.
But it really REALLY helps.
One doesn’t have to have ANY money to come here legally, since the US Constitution forbids the federal government to regulate immigration. Entering the country is legal. It’s getting past the unconstitutional police state that costs.
‘A few Years’? Today
Boiling frog analogy – it’s bad but how bad is REALLY bad ? For me the marker is Overt Christian Theocracy, and that would take a) a backslide to a recent former President in the Oval Office, or b) the elevation by default of Mike Johnson to the Presidency by death or incapacitation of POTUS and VPOTUS.
Both possibilities would be defined within a couple years
Meanwhile,people are fighting to get enter the US,not leave.Who from the US is moving to China,Latin America,or Africa?
Yes, “meanwhile”. Right now.
“Who from the US is moving to…”
Well, after every election in the USA, you have celebs on the Left (or Right) saying they’re getting the hells out because the Right (Bush II) or Left (Obama) just took power.
Then none of them do. I think because their accountant calls and reminds them that [income >> principled stands] so their whining becomes all sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Because a person is able to provide entertainment,does not give them a reasonable amount of smarts Many ‘celebs”poison their bodies with toxic substances,ruin their bodies and lives,and we are supposed to feel sorry for them.
“Because a person is able to provide entertainment,does not give them a reasonable amount of smarts.”
True – but there are celebrities (actors, singers, comedians) who are tremendously brilliant and who DO take moral stands on the “right side of history”.
There are some I think are well-meaning but all over the map in a sociopolitical sense (Sean Penn being a prime example) so it’s hard to side with 90% of what they say, 60% of the time.
And there are opportunists, people who see which way the temporary social winds are blowing and side with that until it inevitably falls ATS*. Hollywood’s “Woke warriors” are the current best example; cancel-culture is dead and Wokeism (aka Political Correctness v.5) is fading quickly.
*ATS = All To S**t
Once again not denying Israels brutality. Just more deflection.
4Q
Imprecise and Dumb. Just like most Christian Zionists
The joke will be on the CZs since Jesus said Himself that He will come ‘as a thief in the night’ without warning during business as usual. The CZs think they know when, but God is full of surprises, and as the song says, “I’ll do it My way”.
Like I said, “impresise and dumb
Wait, didn’t ‘Jesus’ also say his kingdom would return within the lifetime of the people he was talking to ? There’s references in both Mark and Matthew (with the author of Matthew likely copying off the author of Mark).
So…not confident that a Second Coming already ~2,000 years late and probably 1,000 times predicted since then, will Magickally Decide to happen now during the more mundane of history’s great religious wars and/or religio-ethnic genocides.
He was referring to His resurrection and His new Kingdom on Earth: the Church. Did He not arise with His angels? Some theologians also believe Pentecost was the second coming as he sent His Spirit to guide the new Church. It’s all so controversial. I’ll just wait and see.
“He was referring to His resurrection and His new Kingdom on Earth : the Church.”
A loose interpretation.
“Did He not arise with His angels?”
We have no evidence for that. The gospels claim it; and contradict each other on several rather critical details.
Setting aside the anonymous gospel authors, only Jesus-contemporary Paul (claims that he) saw the Risen Jesus; and his claimed experience well-fits that of a bereavement hallucination, leaving us with no real facts or evidence.
That aside, it remains the case that the True Intended Second Coming ™ has been predicted before or during major events in world history multiple times (year 666, year 1000, year 2000, at the onset of major wars or plagues) and never happened.
One may read the predictions made by the Jehovah’s Witnesses since the late 1800’s, and those of apocalyptic preachers and Second Coming cults even well into the 20th century, to see a brilliant record of failures.
In short, wait if you want, Liliandra, but keep yourself pleasantly occupied in the meantime…!
“only Jesus-contemporary Paul (claims that he) saw the Risen Jesus; and his claimed experience well-fits that of a bereavement hallucination”
Well, except for the bereavement part. At the time of the alleged encounter, Paul was Saul of Tarsus, a pharisee (and Roman) enforcer against the early Christians.
Here’s a link (Duck is a search engine) of who saw the Resurrected Jesus. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=who+saw+jesus+after+his+resurecction&ia=webAlso in Rev. St. John saw the glorified Christ. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=john%27s+description+of+jesus&ia=web
So called “progressives ” are pretty advanced along those lines-tossing out their limited vocabulary of catch phrases and buzzwords,whether they apply or not.They fit every thing into the party line. Israel and Us bad, russia,China good.
Call it what you want, dumb, indiscriminate, collective punishment, genocide, ethnic cleansing, etc. Dude! Jimmy Carter called it an “Apartheid” all the way back in 2007. IT DID’NT MAKE A FU@KING DIFFERENCE! Because NOBODY CARES! …Wait… I take it back! IT’S EVEN WORSE!!!
I didn’t know he said that. I know he called the US an oligarchy.
You’re right. He strongly implied in the title of the book, but when pushed, he didn’t have the “balls” to call it as such.
And was JC’s funding on this matter?
Carter wasn’t what people thought he was, and he was just another politician.
Jimmy Carter’s Blood Drenched Legacy https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/11/jimmy-carters-blood-drenched-legacy-2/
Ahh! The quiet dignity of dying by a smart bomb.
The pride of knowing that your death was made possible by multi million dollar optics and state of the art targeting algorithm.
The contempt for those who died by mere iron shells and low brow explosives.
Whoever said death is the ultimate equalizer was obviously wrong.
Footnote: smart of not, civilian death is not Ok
Dumb bombs manufactured by dummies,given by dumbasses to dumb mfr’s who are INSANE! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e076487713a7f48ae0f673f60fd3d13d841b20a9666e83b3092152a8e8ec4452.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7ba335857d77831021ecb072e72733f1c75a4d9d671613f92e59f137d1c8f450.jpg
Everyone should know that Netanyahu’s display of the map without Palestine was to the UN General Assembly, 15 days before October 7th.
I do not see a cartoonish bomb with lit fuse in the image, why is PM Netanyahu going off-brand ???
Hoping to be taken more seriously by a world community that has increasingly thought of him as a scary clown?
Oh, Boys, I think that horse has sailed.
Amnesty International conducted an investigation that found Israel targeted two homes in Gaza full of civilians using Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM), US-provided kits that turn dumb bombs into precision-guided munitions. The strikes killed 40 people, including 19 children, and Amnesty is calling for it to be investigated as a war crime.
In other words it makes no god damned difference if it’s a smart bomb or a dumb bomb it’s still going to aimed at civilians. Maybe the dumb bombs would be better, they might miss.
“In other words it makes no god damned difference if it’s a smart bomb or a dumb bomb it’s still going to aimed at civilians.”
Right. And really, there’s nowhere in Gaza to drop bombs, or to aim missiles or artillery or any other heavy weapons, that isn’t targeting civilians, no matter what the IDF says, or even what they actually convince themselves to believe. It’s all one giant war crime.
“…US-provided kits…”
IDF probably didn’t read the manual – you likely need to update the software with the dumb bomb connected to wifi, enter your AppleID password, select Upgrade to Smart?, select Yes, accept the EULA, select Yes, and select Restart Now (NOT Restart Outside Of Wartime Hours)
If I even CONSIDER blitz-bombing anyplace, I have my kids upgrade my munitions for me. Was one of the first Achievements they got in Fortnite, they know how.
Until people recognize the metaphysical reasons in Israel’s Rabbinical texts for this ethnic cleansing, and the avarice in the US Government to facilitate the genocide, there’s no going back, only forward to WWIII. “The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.” -J.C.
Jimmy Carter said that ?
He probably knows it well and has repeated it more than a few times. Carter is a real and devout Christian.
It’s also in the N.T. Bible:
1 Timothy 6:10
And what knowledge do you have of Rabbinical texts, and what texts are you refering to?Qoute them. War is hell-Gazans attacked Israel,massacering civilian sand are facing a harsh response.That is war.
Sorry, last time I quoted the ‘T’ word, I got banned. Check your own copy of the texts if you don’t know what they say. And, remember Bibi made the T the supreme law of Israel, and now it’s being put to use in Gaza. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/180440?ssr=1
Israel had used 29,000 air-to-ground munitions in its bombardment of Gaza,…. The assessment from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence found 40-45% of the 29,000 munitions have been dumb bombs, and the rest have been precise guided munitions.
in other words; more than half of all of the bombs that Israel has delivered onto schools and hospitals etc were precision-guided onto the schools and hospitals etc.
By the latest best estimates, Israel has now flattened a larger portion of northern Gaza than WWII Allied bombing destroyed in Dresden.
Heckuva job, Joe and Bibi!
Nearly Half of All Israeli Munitions Dropped on Gaza are Dumb Bombs
Nearly 100% of the US Congress is dumb too.
Ir is a knee jerk reaction to give Israel too much credit for motives and execution. Do they know where any Hammas “commander” is at any time? We make tgeir intentions sound pure, killing commanders. Seriously! The objective is to annuhilate and humiliate population, and by extension the rest of mankind. The barbaric ligic is simple — no population no need for resistance movement. Yes, they do precision — when it is time to destroy libraries, national archives, schools, university, mosques. Yes, they dus not bomb Christian church, they only walked in and killed whoever was around. No questions asked. Kidnap nurses and doctors -/ and let the disabled, sick and newborn die in darkness with no water and help of any kind. It is simple. This is how you fight insurgency.
What is the point of figuring out smart vs dumb bombs? Somebody is just waisting time and money doing the calculation and delorting in it — like it is really a meaningul issue. I do not think are quite grasping what is going on.
The West has lost all reason and what we witness today is a result of that.