Back in my Air Force years, I was sent to a week-long seminar on terrorism. One the big events of the week....they took to the out-back of the base, and blew up a car on some pavement.
X-amount of explosive....result? A crater, and a flipped over car. Yeah, it was impressive.
So when I looked at the photo of this Palestinian hospital....it was a curious thing for me.
First, if it had been a Israeli rocket/missile/bomb....it would have flatten the entire building. This was not the case....it ended up in the rear parking lot. It's not a huge parking lot....I'd say maybe 25 to 35 cars max could fit there.
Second, the 'crater' is probably big enough to fit a bath-tub or two into. Again, that doesn't fit the normal profile of a explosive that Israel would use. Max of maybe half-a-meter deep.
Damage? Burnt cars.....maybe one or two turned over, the rest just burnt. Building damage? Windows knocked out, but not much damage.
So the odds of this being a Hamas rocket? I'd give it almost 99-percent chance.
500 dead? Well....if there were 500 in the parking lot at the time.....yeah, it might be true. But were they all there for some smoke-break? Evening hours, I might believe thirty-odd people standing there and dead.
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The media shallowed whole the Israeli rocket story. I will come out later that it wasn't but you won't see any retraction of the original story reported.
True, even WSJ/NY T went for the 'bait'. But it proves that BIG news will believe just about anything, without digging past the first layer of substance. I waited to see the photo, and then started laughing.
I'm pretty sure in Lebanon and Iran....at least a thousand people will come forward in the next couple of months to say they were in the parking lot and just avoided doom by 60 seconds by driving away.
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