linox

maybe it's you who needs to get in touch with reality? sure it's not at the same level of aid israel gets but this is n example of only ONE shipment that we know of:Karin A

Bumble Bee Tuna

Just like a kid throwing a rock poses no threat to israeli tanks, which was exactly my point.

-B

Loren Pechtel

Incorrect. Rock throwers can threaten tanks. Sure, a rock can't hurt a tank, but if the rocks make the tankers keep their heads down they might miss the real attack.

linox

the Rock throwers children"" don't usualy throw their rocks (sometimes it's molotov ) at tanks, they throw them at ground soldiers.
although it makes good propoganda pictuers when they do.

rlogan

Loren, you really are off the deep end sometimes.

rlogan

Thank you both for making my point for me.

Israel recieves billions upon Billions in direct aid and weapons, shipped at the expense of the United States. The most modern gunships, helicopters, tanks, mortars, missiles, machine guns, etc. BILLIONS

When they are delivered with my tax money, no newswire hurls headlines such as "Israelis caught receiving free helicopters from the U.S."

With the palestinians, shipments of weapons are intercepted by the United States and others. Weapons the Palestinians try to purchase are seized.

You shriek about $15 million in weapons intercepted as if they actually were in posession of firepower anywhere even in the same universe as the Israelis.

These people are throwing fucking rocks and blowing themselves up.

You are so blinded by Zionism that for years after a mere $15 million in weapons is seized headed for the palestinians that you want to harp on it as if that overshadowed the hundreds of millions in weapons at a time regularly delivered to the Israelis FOR FREE.

The story is exactly as I said - we prohibit the Palestinians from receiving weapons at the same time we are lavishing them on the Israelis.

Arctish

So a soldier in a tank is vulnerable to attack unless he can stick his head outside?

If this is true the IDF must have the crappiest tanks in the history of warfare.

Bumble Bee Tuna, that is a very good example of double standards. By the rationale offered by some supporters of Israel, the guy in Tianamen Square should have been killed because of the potential threat he posed, regardless how slight that potential really was.

mountain_hare

I agree with what another poster said. Israel must have the crappiest tanks in history.

Loren Pechtel

Tanks on their own in an urban environment don't fare well. They must have either infantry or people sticking their head up watching. Thus things which harm infantry but not tanks *ARE* a danger to tanks. Not because of the direct harm but because they keep the real attackers from being discovered.

Manitoumulegirl

I'd move to Australia.