Wednesday, July 19, 2006
BAG TAKES FLIGHT
Robert Fisk, interviewed by Lateline’s Tony Jones on Monday night, considers Israeli claims:
The Israelis say they have lost not lost an aircraft but when I reached the scene there was columns on smoke, the road was on fire awash with fuel oil, the bushes were on fire. The trees were on fire. There was a house on fire ...
The roof, the roof, the roof was on fire.
... and clearly, whatever came out of the sky fell over a large area. There were huge pieces of metal. One had a figure 225 written on it. It wasn’t in Arabic numerals, it was in Roman numerals. When I picked up what appeared to be maybe a cockpit window of some kind, the glass fell out of the rubber frame onto the road. Now there’s various versions of what it might be. Maybe it was an empty bomb which was containing propaganda sheets saying, “Leave the area,” which the Israelis have dropped in the past.
“Leave the area” is propaganda? Jets tend not to use rubber-framed windows; perhaps Fisk happened upon a piece of exploded truck. Bob didn’t hang around long enough to find out:
The army, too, were keen to get out of the area in case the Israelis returned and bombed the scene. I left at suitable Fisk speed, I can tell you.
Once again the Satin Bag evades his enemies! More military insights from our rapid superhero:
If you can hit a warship at two miles, you can probably hit an F-16 at one mile.
Makes sense. I mean, both these machines are war-related, right? So, you know, they probably travel at the same speed. Fisk attempts to restrain his excitement:
The whole balance of power in this region is changing because now the Israelis find they are dying in quite large numbers as well. Obviously every death, whether it be Israeli or Palestinian or whether it be Lebanese, is a tragedy. But what is clearly the case is that in the past when the Israelis could bomb Lebanon with impunity, those days have gone.
Not that the Satin Bag is feeling particularly secure:
How do you explain the attack on the lighthouse outside my house? Is this a terrorist target?
Hmm ...
UPDATE. Fisk is attacked by the crazy left for mouthing “exactly the Zionist line”!
UPDATE II. AlphaMikeFoxtrot:
’Rubber framed window’ on a jet - does this idiot ever do any research at all? I suppose if he found a broken fly-screen door on the beach, he would deduce they had sunk an Israeli submarine!