In an additional follow-up to my comment 2 hours ago, I have heard retired American general and European theatre commander Ben Hodges on Erin Burnett's "Out Front" show on CNN and he is very sceptical about current IDF explanations. As is Jose Andres the head of World Central Kitchen who is insistent that given the distances of the vehicles, and the time gaps between attack, that Israel deliberately targeted the convoy. Hodges and Burnett discussed the IDF's habit of targetting suspected Hamas in travelling and the suggestion was that if they thought there was even just one in the convoy all the vehicles were game for destruction. And later on "The Source" former CIA officer Bob Baer whom I will listen too with interest on a number of topics, insisted that it was an accident and a realistic possibility based on his own time in drone warfare abroad.
Still no direct handling of my earlier point on how the internal IDF sequence should have worked: facts and time on the convoy conveyed to an IDF office....and then what...message sat on?...not conveyed to the operations team...or deliberately ignored because a different level of command/intelligence had the higher power to say the hell with humanitarians, pull the trigger. Of course, if you believe Chris Hedges whole line on the drift of Israeli society and especially since Oct. 7th, the point could be, could be to drive all the humanitarian workers out of Gaza for the purpose of, it sounds brutal, ethnic cleansing or worse.
Let's see how "outraged" Biden does with Netanyahu tomorrow by phone. And have you seen any talk about the American nautical effort, the artificial pier and harbor? I haven't since the topic was first broached. And by the way, I don't know if the drone firing missiles that were used against the convoy were American made, but the US definitely will not supply our advanced Reaper and Predator drones to Ukraine, just to continue the outright favoritism towards Israel, soon to include 50 more F-15's state of the art fighters, while Ukraine can't even collect the obsolete versions of the F-16's promised so late in the struggle.
Just a follow up info post, speculative before the IDF says anything further. The world is outraged at the missile-drone attack (that's speculative but on good physical evidence and images) and I'm very glad the head of World Central Kitchen spoke out, directly, calling it like it appears to be.
Now here's my take. Military commentators and defense specialists have noted the skies over Gaza are rich with Israeli drones, day and night. Here's how I think the system may have operated inside the IDF: the WCK worked to send their movements, configs and signaling to someone in the IDF, set up before. Some effort went into preparing the vehicles to prevent precisely what happened. Now that likely was a laison in the IDF, but not the person or office pulling the trigger to have the drones launch the missiles, maybe three separate times given the vehicle separations. Therefore, either the coordination office failed to pass on the info entirely, or it was ignored by the operations office tasked with pulling the electronic trigger. I suspect something very foul, therefore, pending the report. The excuses I've heard and seen on behalf of the IDF are not credible to me.
I don't have much money to give to very selected charities in the front lines, and did so with Docs without Borders and Andre's WCK after some scrutiny. The world should be outraged at what happened and to Israel's conduct in this war. Read the Algeria book to foretell just how ugly, brutal and sadistic these types of conflicts can become. I don't want my US money spent on such international disgraces. Senator Cardin, the long time apologist for Israel and firm AIPAC supporter ought to resign.
"history, literature and especially intellectual history fading away like the left's hopes for the "working class."
Beautiful sentence Bill, and exactly on point.
(Speaking of the working class:
"You was my brother Charlie – You should have looked out for me a little bit.
You should have taken care of me just a little bit, so I wouldn’t have had to take them dives for the short end money. …. It was you, Charlie." Brando in "On The Waterfront". Watch
In an additional follow-up to my comment 2 hours ago, I have heard retired American general and European theatre commander Ben Hodges on Erin Burnett's "Out Front" show on CNN and he is very sceptical about current IDF explanations. As is Jose Andres the head of World Central Kitchen who is insistent that given the distances of the vehicles, and the time gaps between attack, that Israel deliberately targeted the convoy. Hodges and Burnett discussed the IDF's habit of targetting suspected Hamas in travelling and the suggestion was that if they thought there was even just one in the convoy all the vehicles were game for destruction. And later on "The Source" former CIA officer Bob Baer whom I will listen too with interest on a number of topics, insisted that it was an accident and a realistic possibility based on his own time in drone warfare abroad.
Still no direct handling of my earlier point on how the internal IDF sequence should have worked: facts and time on the convoy conveyed to an IDF office....and then what...message sat on?...not conveyed to the operations team...or deliberately ignored because a different level of command/intelligence had the higher power to say the hell with humanitarians, pull the trigger. Of course, if you believe Chris Hedges whole line on the drift of Israeli society and especially since Oct. 7th, the point could be, could be to drive all the humanitarian workers out of Gaza for the purpose of, it sounds brutal, ethnic cleansing or worse.
Let's see how "outraged" Biden does with Netanyahu tomorrow by phone. And have you seen any talk about the American nautical effort, the artificial pier and harbor? I haven't since the topic was first broached. And by the way, I don't know if the drone firing missiles that were used against the convoy were American made, but the US definitely will not supply our advanced Reaper and Predator drones to Ukraine, just to continue the outright favoritism towards Israel, soon to include 50 more F-15's state of the art fighters, while Ukraine can't even collect the obsolete versions of the F-16's promised so late in the struggle.
Just a follow up info post, speculative before the IDF says anything further. The world is outraged at the missile-drone attack (that's speculative but on good physical evidence and images) and I'm very glad the head of World Central Kitchen spoke out, directly, calling it like it appears to be.
Now here's my take. Military commentators and defense specialists have noted the skies over Gaza are rich with Israeli drones, day and night. Here's how I think the system may have operated inside the IDF: the WCK worked to send their movements, configs and signaling to someone in the IDF, set up before. Some effort went into preparing the vehicles to prevent precisely what happened. Now that likely was a laison in the IDF, but not the person or office pulling the trigger to have the drones launch the missiles, maybe three separate times given the vehicle separations. Therefore, either the coordination office failed to pass on the info entirely, or it was ignored by the operations office tasked with pulling the electronic trigger. I suspect something very foul, therefore, pending the report. The excuses I've heard and seen on behalf of the IDF are not credible to me.
I don't have much money to give to very selected charities in the front lines, and did so with Docs without Borders and Andre's WCK after some scrutiny. The world should be outraged at what happened and to Israel's conduct in this war. Read the Algeria book to foretell just how ugly, brutal and sadistic these types of conflicts can become. I don't want my US money spent on such international disgraces. Senator Cardin, the long time apologist for Israel and firm AIPAC supporter ought to resign.
Thanks Bill, much appreciated.
"history, literature and especially intellectual history fading away like the left's hopes for the "working class."
Beautiful sentence Bill, and exactly on point.
(Speaking of the working class:
"You was my brother Charlie – You should have looked out for me a little bit.
You should have taken care of me just a little bit, so I wouldn’t have had to take them dives for the short end money. …. It was you, Charlie." Brando in "On The Waterfront". Watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeVq1e6JKlw