Was glancing at the Blogoverse between games this morning and found a link on NZ Bear’s site (another anonymous blogger, BTW!!) to a story on Michael Kielsky’s site about a young Arab boy who was flown to the U.S. to have a bullet taken from his chest (note: This is how we treat people who celebrated 9/11 and Daniel Pearl’s death…we fly them here for medical treatment. Yes we are better than they are.)
The bullet appeared to be a .22LR, as opposed to the .223 and .308 ammunition typically used by the Israeli military. Kielsky felt that this was evidence that he had not been shot by an Israeli.
I have been told, in the shooting world, some things about Israeli tactics…almost always with a lot of admiration. One thing which I have been told is that the IDF uses .22LR in riot supression as a ‘less-lethal’ alternative to .223 or .308, which are typically quite lethal.
I passed this on to Michael and NZ, and Michael has at least some confirmation of it.
This isn’t an anti-Israeli point; and anyone who reads this blog knows how I feel about the Intifada (hint: it’s a rare mixture of immoral and suicidal).
But if we demand the truth from others, we ought to tell it ourselves.