83 Replies to “Occupied Territories Of The Little People”

  2. A D9 only? Disappointingly small for the task at hand. I’d use a D11R CD. All 113 metric tonnes of it.

  6. I don’t care if that thing is only 6 feet tall, I don’t want to be in front of it charging at me.

  7. I don’t care if that thing is only 6 feet tall, I don’t want to be in front of it charging at me.
    Yeah, god knows that with a top speed of 12 KM/hour, you’d never be able to out run it…

  8. *
    good gawd… well, i guess that explains
    the six-minute, er… six-day war.
    as steffi would say, “that is not fair”
    *

  9. Sung to the tune of ‘paliwood’ ta-da-de-de ‘oh paliwoood’ and etc…
    heh, what can I say?
    I’m big on these big beautiful machines.
    Oddly enough for some reason I am also having a craving for pancakes.
    🙂

  10. Re able to out run it — When I was a lad with my dad in bear country in the Canadian west, my sum total of advice was, ” when in bear country, have a look around, and make sure you are not the slowest”. Aye, sound advice from the man of few words, and to which I have passed on to my kids.

  12. being able to run away from a bulldozer, and pancakes?
    I would be driven to tears, if not arms at someone bulldozing my house, not to mention children dead, and no legal recourse, in Isreal or the US.
    What’s wrong with you people, mocking a photoshop, a family died.
    Quote:
    His father Umar, his sisters Fatima and Abir, his brother Samir and pregnant sister-in-law Nabila, and their three children, ages 4, 7, and 9, were all killed.
    endquote
    how cold can you get.

  13. Killdozer the sequel. Son of Killdozer…It’s Bigger…It’s Badder…It’s taking out the trash!

  15. The scaling of that D9 in the top picture makes it look like the jawa-mobile that scooped up R2-D2. Are the Palestinians in the foreground searching by candlelight because of the recent electricity outage?

  19. The top photo is obviously a fake fake versus the genuine fakes. Genuine fakes all contain either Green Helmet Man or Gap Toothed Woman. The top photo contains neither of these and therefore can be considered a fake fake — probably put out by the Associate Press or some such fly-by-night organization ham fistedly trying to hoodwink the public with cheap photoshops. For genuine fakes go directly to Hamas embeds. Accept no substitutes. This message is presented as a public service to preserve truth in fakery.

  20. Sometimes it’s important to lie when you’re making the news. Sometimes there’s just not enough material to work with, so you have to make one part of the picture bigger. Or better yet, if it’s a Jew-ey part of the picture, you can make it so big it blocks out everything else — like common sense, a general sense of wherewithal, humanity, etc.
    The CBC’s Peter Armstrong did that tonight and how. His anti-Israel campaigning could well have come to grief in light of the fact that the only visuals he had to work with, from his safe haven in Jerusalem, were biblical-scale clips of Palestinians — 700,000 by some estimates — clashing with Egyptians — throwing rocks, bulldozing a section of border wall, etc. Point is, there wasn’t a single Jew in sight. What’s a Peter Armstrong to do?
    Relax, he pulled it off — you can work magic with Jews, you know — by painting a news report that explained to all Canadians that this violence between the Egyptians, who, as always, didn’t want Palestinians coming into their country, and the Palestinians who were trying to tear down the border fence erected by their Arab bretheren so that they could buy food — Arab food, once suspects — was really the fault of the Jews.
    Your lyin’ eyes, and all that. You watch Arab-on-Arab violence, and shopping, but you hear the CBC’s Peter Armstrong: “As the chaos at the border played out, political pressure on Israel grew. Through the weeks Israeli officials seemed keen to distance themselves from the situation. But it’s not quite that easy; under international law, Israel is still responsible for Gaza. The border crashed down this week after Israel escalated its economic siege of the coastal strip. Saying it was trying to stop rocket fire from Gaza, Israel sealed the border for six days; nothing was allowed in or out. Fuel supplies, even humanitarian aid was cut off.”
    (He’s talking about Jew fuel, and Jew-aid, obviously; it’s no crime or outrage of any sort if Egyptians withhold all assistance, or erect a border fence.)
    Here’s how Armstrong ended his news report:
    “And so, the siege remains broken. Gaza — and with it Hamas — have international sympathy. Gazans have food and supplies, Hamas has replenished its weapons and bolstered its public support. It’s hard to see how Israeli attempts at marginalizing the Islamic group have done anything but backfire. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Jerusalem.”

  22. Cam, Has it occurred to you that the very killing of families by Israel might have never happened? That it’s a media release to manipulate you. That it, like the photoshopped picture is bullshit intended to polarize people.
    Strange Brew. Launch a missle out of your home into an Israeli classroom, killing everyone. Your house gets bulldozed. Bad Isralis.

  24. Perhaps Alberta should export their truly massive oil sands wheeled vehicles (which dwarf any tank, bulldozer or house), run over everything and dump toys and food.

  25. Kate, since Mr. Cruikshank (CBC editor) is unaware of any bias at CBC, perhaps you could do Canada a HUGE favour and forward the top ten list of postings (together with selected thread comments) of CBC bias to Mr. Cruikshank (with copies to Cruikshank, the Ombudsman, the CBC CEO, Bev Oda and (if enough anti-Israeli postings are available) the CJC. Could we not also put together a package of such postings/comments and submit it to the CRTC?
    For this posting, it would be most appropriate to include EBD’s “most-excellent” comment.

  26. see the latest disection of pallywood
    http://theaugeanstables.com/
    “January 24, 2008
    Second Draft examines another Pallywood Production: Gaza Beach Tragedy: Exploiting Grief
    Filed under: Arab-Israeli Conflict, Demopaths and Dupes, Media, Pallywood, Photographs — Richard Landes @ 9:26 pm — Print This Post
    We have just put up a ten-minute documentary on the Gaza Beach explosion that killed seven of the Ghalia family on June 9, 2006.
    Gaza Beach Tragedy: Exploiting Grief”
    or the original
    http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/corruption-of-media.html

  27. What do you suppose the reaction would be of someone who just had their home arbitrarily bull dozed?
    Ever wonder where suicide bombers come from?

  28. WL, we don’t wonder at all where suicide bombers come from. They tell us, repeatedly, in detail, viva voce. The difference between yourself and most of the posters here is that we listen to what they say and take them seriously, where all you can do is dig into your dogma for something to project on them that they specifically and emphatically reject.
    And we, like a lot of people, have been waiting for the Palestinians to discover where Caterpillar brand D9 armored bulldozers come from. Of course they’ll never find out from you.
    Regards,
    Ric

  29. WLMR, if I were a Caledonia resident and my home was bulldozed by police in an effort to stop the terror and intimidation of the FN thugs, I would not strap on a suicide vest and attack white folks in Toronto suburbs.
    I would (rightly) be mightily incensed at the FN thugs who caused the whole problem in the first place. If Hamas and/or Hezbollah would stop attacking Israeli civilians indiscriminately, then I’m sure that Israel would stop bulldozing the homes of “innocent civilians”. If the Palestinians don’t want to be hit with retaliation, don’t support the terrorists.

  31. I’m with Cam and WLMR on this one. Never mind the photos, though the size of the cut-and-paste bulldozer on the top is surely how one feels, emotionally, as it tears down your home.
    The article, which outlines the killings of men, women and children by these actions of destruction, is, in my view, morally indefensible. As well as pragmatically useless.
    These people are not the ones who are lobbing the rocks, grenades and missiles. Plus, destroying their homes, killing families, will only increase their hatred to pathological levels.
    EBD – by international agreement, international funds go to Israel, not Egypt, to pass on to the Palestinians (since Gaza effectively has no economy and is not self-sustaining). Israel is withholding these funds. Egypt doesn’t receive them from the international community. It isn’t, to use your rather offensive terms ‘Jew-food’ and ‘Jew-aid’; it’s the international funds and supplies.
    I think that Israel would certainly like to be rid of this task of channeling the Int.Aid to the Palestinians, and lob it off onto Egypt to the extent that Gaza would become a permanent ‘suburb’ of Egypt. But Egypt doesn’t want that.
    I don’t think it’s a political coup for Hamas against Israel because Egypt’s refusal throws Gaza back to Israel. My question would be, does Hamas really want Egypt to take over looking after Gaza? That would end Gaza’s future role in a Palestinian state. So, why would Hamas do that?
    I’m speculating, but I’ve got a niggling admittedly unclear feeling that it’s also about Abbas and Fatah and a fight between Hamas and Fatah.

  32. From Cam
    I would be driven to tears, if not arms at someone bulldozing my house, not to mention children dead, and no legal recourse, in Israel or the US.
    What’s wrong with you people, mocking a photo shop, a family died.
    Quote:
    His father Umar, his sisters Fatima and Abir, his brother Samir and pregnant sister-in-law Nabila, and their three children, ages 4, 7, and 9, were all killed.
    endquote
    how cold can you get.
    Considering the track record of the Palestinian media, and their abstract ability to over emphasis, make stuff up and down right lie, to curry favour from the useful idiots of western society, I am hard pressed to believe that anybody died. I used to shake my head in dismay at Israel and their heavy handed tactics, until I started doing research about the industry of hollywoodism that is rampant in the middle east. This bull dozer pic is but a tiny example of how they stage for the useful idiots of the western media, who lap it up!

  33. “Sometimes it’s important to lie when you’re making the news.”
    Taqiyya. They can’t help themselves.

  34. “since Gaza effectively has no economy and is not self-sustaining”
    Actually, before the Israelis pulled out of Gaza, it had an active export industry centered around agriculture. The Palestinians destroyed the green houses when the Israelis pulled out.
    Had the Palestinians not destroyed those green houses, they’d have had the start of a functional economy. But I guess judenhass outweighs the need to provide for themselves.

  35. But remember, kate, the people elected Hamas, not for their terrorism but against the extreme corruption, the financial irresponsibility and personal power agendas, the refusal to make peace, and continuance of ‘intifada’ of Arafat’s Fatah party, which had done zilch for the Palestinians.
    In contrast, despite their open dedication to Islamism, Hamas had done their ‘public relations’ work for the Palestinians by setting up health care centres, libraries, social services etc.
    There’s not much to choose from between Fatah and Hamas. Neither party is focused on the well-being of the Palestinians. And by now, with almost two generations of living like this, nourished by actions on both sides, I’d say that the mindset of many Palestinians is locked into the Caged Man syndrome (destructiveness to the self and others becomes the norm).

  36. cam – do you still believe in the Easter Bunny, too? Come on, man. Look at the numerous examples of outright lies from similar “news” stories of palestinians or suffering muzzies:
    – “missiles” from recent attacks that are actually old soviet shells
    – the “jenin massacre”
    – staged clip of palestinian man & “son” under fire from israeli troops
    – etc.
    If I read “white is the opposite of black” in the middle-eastern press, I’d carefully research the facts before I accepted it as truth.
    Don’t be so naive.
    Dave in Guelph (hey! my old hometown), as I noted in the original post, the D11 is a bigger machine, but I’ve always been partial to the ‘Niner after being scared by this flick as a kid.
    mhb23re
    at gmail d0t calm

  37. Given the stories of death and injury on the site linked, those gigantic D-90’s (surely they’re 10 times larger than a regular Cat) must also be the ultra-rare stealth versions.
    I’ve got a new subdivision going in about a mile away from me, and the rumble from the earth moves wakes me up every morning. I figure I’d have about, oh, an hour’s worth of warning if one of those bad boys made a beeline for Casa Yukon Gold.
    Hey Catepillar — please send some of those silent D-90’s to Winnipeg. We’ll have that new Sage Creek development dozed in about a half hour!

  38. ET – you’re an anthropologist. Have you not yet figured out that political parties arise from the cultures they represent? If all the Palestinians have to choose from are Fatah and Hamas, they need to look in the mirror for the answers.

  41. No, kate, ‘culture’ doesn’t operate separately from a political system, and I don’t accept the post WWII anthropological view that ‘culture’ (and what does that MEAN, specifically?) is basic.
    That’s the view of such as Margaret Mead, Boas, Douglas…all, cultural relativists, all suggesting that what really makes people function, is their culture, ie, their beliefs. This view is taught in many undergrad anthro classes. I reject it.
    I think that culture, ie, the ‘textual’ beliefs, is the ‘superstructure’…it’s an End Product, not a Beginning Cause.
    I’m into Ecological Anthropology, which posits that the hard material reality of your ‘biome’ or ecology..or environment is what you first have to deal with, as an individual and as a collective. HOW you deal with this, is, first, your economy.
    Your economy, as a functional adaptation by the population to what you cannot ignore (your material environment), is organized by the political system. This sets up hierarchies of authority. The political system should be run by the population, to manage the economy within that environment. Then, linked to this, is your legal system. These three are the basic infrastructure of a society: economy, political, legal.
    Then..the ‘surface’ systems, are your educational/socialization system…your family structure..and your religion or.. These three are the ‘ideological’ or ‘thought systems of a society.
    I do NOT put these three as primary causes, as does the Cultural Relativist School of anthroplogists (see above); I consider them derivative results of the more basic causes – that material reality..and the Economy, Political, Legal systems.
    The Six Systems, as I used to call them.
    The Palestinian ‘economy’ has no connection to their material environment. The ‘economy’ at least in Gaza, is primarily dependence on international aid. Right there – you’ve got a pathology. Rather similar to many of our indigeneous reserves, isn’t it?
    Because the population is thereby disconnected from adapting to their envt, and because the population plays no role in their economy, you have a political (and legal) system that is ‘loose’ and totally disconnected from the economy. [Think of the Canadian Wheat Board].
    This political system, as loose and disconnected from the economy, then focuses only on itself and its own power. That’s what has happened in Palestine.
    So, no, I don’t blame the Palestinian people.
    What has to be done? The Palestinians have to have a land base which they can administer entirely on their own. They then have to be weaned off aid programs, and they have to start a massive education program to enable them to operate as service providers (eg Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc..ie..areas that do not rely on natural resources or agriculture as an economy). In the West Bank, they can, in addition, have an agricultural economy.
    Not an easy task, but so far, their alienated political system focuses only on its own power – and not on the future of any people.

  42. What do you suppose the reaction would be of someone who just had their home arbitrarily bull dozed?
    Ever wonder where suicide bombers come from?
    SO … one day, the IDF, bored silly with inactivity, decided, just for fun, to knock a house down … giving birth to the suicide bomber sick with hopelessness and despair. Puke.
    To hear this from a guy so hep to quasi-marxist cant and radical libertarian conspiracy theory is a bit of a shock.
    The house-bulldozing is morally defensible, I believe, BUT very bad optics when considering the world-class propaganda skills of the Nazi and KGB-taught PaliNazis.
    And as to so-called “collective punishment” what do you call mass-murdering civilian jooos on buses and pizza parlours, or justifying the killing of all Jews over 18 because they will at some time in their lives be in the military — if not collective punishment.
    Suicide bombing is a family and cultural affair, not a lone-wolf enterprise. Watch some PaliNazi TV!
    Any other country — not faced with this kind of bigotry — would simply go in and totally flatten everything. (See what Assad did at Hama!).
    Bulldozing single houses directly associated with known suicide bombers is justifiable targeted retribution.
    I really can’t believe this squishy sentimentalism.

  43. Palestine – Palestinian.
    Earlier thread but related to this.
    Yes, “Palestine” is an ancient word (Palestina, from the Romans?) but the use of “Palestinian” for the area Arabs was NEW post-67. Before that the word was sometimes used, but ironically for Jews. Palestinian Post (Jews), Palestinian Symphony (Jews) Palestinian Brigage (Jewish military brigade). I have many quotes on file from Arab leaders admitting to this.
    Summary: The PLO was put together by the KGB and they also got advice form the N Vietcong.
    That advice was: Stop calling for the destruction of Israel. Reframe it as a “nationalist” struggle.
    And there was born a new “people” called the “Palestinian People” AND the Jews became Goliath and the invented “people” the “Palestinians” became David. One of the most brilliant propaganda coups in world history.
    It is a “nationalist” movement only in the negative sense — solely toward the denial and destruction of defensive Jewish nationalism.
    As someone observed: the Muslims were never that interested in Jerusalem UNTIL the Jews got it back.

  44. Ellie in T.O. –
    No, it’s a D9; they are stock Cats modified by the IDF. The visuals are all wrong for the photoshopped dozer to be the Komatsu D575 you’d shown in your post.
    Predictably, the boneheaded left has their collective shorts in a knot and have lobbied Caterpillar to stop supplying D9’s to Israel to prevent “human rights violations”. No info or news if the same crowd lobbied explosives & arms manufacturers to cease supplying palestinian terrorists with weapons and components of suicide bombs to be used to curtail the human rights of Israelis. Probably because that’d be a different situation, I guess.
    mhb23re
    at gmail d0t calm

  46. It’s the little people that are photoshopped. The rest of the photo is not. The little people are suprisingly in focus compared to everything in front of, behind, and next to them.
    Or another way to tell: Why on earth is that guy in the middle bending over? To stare at the rock in front of him?
    The photographer likely has a stack of people photos that he can photoshop into whatever photo he chooses, so that they can be bombed, attacked and burned over and over again.

  48. That photoshopped D9 is some mighty machine! Pity it doesn’t exist. Maybe Caterpillar would give the artist a job in their PR department. Or design department!

  49. Amazing, that darn Israeli blockade has caused the natives of Gaza to shrink. Bad Israeli’s…..

  50. It’d be one cool machine if it was real.
    Put two seven-barrel, 20-mm rotary cannons on it and go after Hamas, blowing ’em away and ‘dozing their stinking hideouts… where can I sign up to emigrate to Israel to join the IDF Bulldozer Brigades?

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