--- dredmond at efn.org wrote:
> On Sun, September 16, 2007 5:10 pm, Robert Wrubel
> wrote:
>
> > Xymphora has a recent post on the "raid" which
> argues
> > that the purpose of it was to test the newly
> acquired Russian Pantsyr S-1E
> > air defense missiles, specifically, to see whether
> Israel's sophisticated
> > jamming systems worked against them. They did.
>
> Sorry, I don't believe this for a single second.
> Russia produces some of
> the most effective weapons systems in the world. But
> Putin is not going to
> pour gasoline on a fire. Those missiles are a
> deterrent against a major
> war, and safely turned off in some bunkers
> somewhere. Probably Israel was
> trying to provoke a war, but failed.
>
> I'm sure the Russian tech crews were overjoyed at
> the bonanza of free
> intel on Israeli flight patterns and signal jamming
> technology, though.
>
> Bearzilla 1, Israeli settler colonialism 0.
>
> -- DRR
>
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