Until the IDF dropped in on the Gaza Food Folks & Fun Flotilla (without bringing so much as a nice loaf of marble rye as welcome gift) we had no idea that the IDFers had a blog. Awesome! The IDF Spokesperson blog is kind of like Contentions but with less chest-thumping butched-up bluster from Noah Pollack and more Friday Night iShabbat Random Tens which are pretty much mostly klezmer music, Matisyahu, the Scorpions, and, for some reason, Night Ranger.
Anyway, since the IDF doesn’t Twittertwat (yet!) they want you to know that the Islamoflotillatists had highly sophisticated weaponry like the kind of stuff that Q gives to James Bond such as cuff link lasers or a watch that turns into a chain saw and that is why the IDF guys had to, you know, shoot a bunch of them.
As they say, pics or they don’t exist, so here is the captured weaponry courtesy of the IDF……:
You can click on the picture to get a better idea of how fearsome the weaponry is although, outside of the kinda cool looking scimitar, you may have many of these same Weapons of Gaza Invasion laying around your house, probably because you are an Israel-hating and, by extension, an American-hating terrorist. But pay close attention to those four black-handled knives in the bottom right-hand corner of the picture. If I’m not mistaken those are Wüsthof knives from Germany. And you know who else came from Germany?
That’s right….. The Scorpions.




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Oooooooh, isn’t that the scarf someone wore in a donut (or something) commercial and got all kinds of heck for from Michelle Malkin?
Ah yes, the distraction with Rachel Ray. A step up from stalking a 9-yr. old, I suppose, but every bit as nasty and petty. It ain’t for nothing that the proprietor of this joint once tagged her with the label Rage Imp (who can’t jump).
Dunno if IDF has a Twitter account, or intends to get one. But there is the IsraelGlobalPR Twitter feed! Appears to be modeled after the awesome BPGlobalPR feed. Let’s hope it’s as informative.
And in some possibly sad news (via the aforementioned BPGlobalPR folks), it looks like BP killed AquaMan.
Have a nice evening!
Apparently a typical suburban kitchen and garage are weapons caches for anti-Semitic terrorism. Amd I see that kaffiyehs are considered prima facie evidence of evil intent. Obviously the IDF has hired Michelle Malkin as a consultant.
This is the biggest diplomatic screwup since the State Department approved work visas for the Scorpions’ Rock You Like a Hurricane Tour.
Tools or weapons?
I suppose they were throwing those DVDs like Ninja stars or Batarangs.
I think those are cutoff wheels for a circular saw of mass destruction. Clearly an existential threat to the stability of the region. A couple of masonry blades and an electrical outlet, and poof! There goes the neighborhood.
Also, that paint roller handle looks mighty suspicious.
Looks like to me the thugs cleaned out the galley as well as the engine room. and some poor sap’s CDs.
Well past time for regime change in Israel. The UN could use drones to observe and, if necessary, interdict Israeli citizens breaking the law.
Anyone know how to get ahold of an appropriate flag?
Next up for the IDF: Home Depot and Lowes.
Looks like Patrick Bateman’s bedroom.
Jeez. Replace the kaffiyeh with a shop rag and that looks like the floor of my garage.
Hard to believe any Israeli commando would bring a paintball gun to a knife fight but:
Reuters does, I guess.
RMLAH is a swell theme for the IDF, although this may prove bettah over time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP8G4clUJBY
For BP, this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqgKZnAoavM
Anticipatory irony, who knew?
see some jumper cables of mass destruction in the background..
I’m looking on the left side, and I’m pretty sure I see a sharpening steel.
A sharpening steel, people. “Not sharp” doesn’t do it enough justice, a steel is, for want of a better term, actively round.
You guys make fun, but I blew up the section with the DVDs and it appears to be a six disk instruction set on how to get a Kenyan muslim elected prime minister of Israel before forming a new socialist middle eastern sultanate.
In addition, there is one copy of An American Carol, which I can only assume they were planning to use as a coaster.
C’mon TBoggler, their twittertwatting handle is linked right there on the blog: http://twitter.com/idfspokesperson
Tsk, tsk.
HEY! I posted that exact same Scorpions video over at my joint a few days ago! And noted that “if Shit had an anthem, this would be it.”
Surprisingly, no one bothered to click on the OTHER video I posted, a Leonard Cohen song I put up as a tribute to Dennis Hopper. But that’s probably because sucky-suck Youtube disabled embedding for that vid, so you had to click through to see it.
Shows how much you know, liebrul! What’s a sharpening steel FOR? Sharpening! What was found with it? Knives! That will need sharpening!
Obviously the steel in and of itself is not a weapon per se, but is clearly part of their Weapons of Slicey Destruction Program Activities, and thus casus belli of a prolonged bombing campaign.
The future of Western Civilization depends on it!
I see some Bull Connor model ax handles in the background. Does this mean that the flotilla was manned by libertarian followers of Rand Paul?
Sorry for the OT, but in addition to being white and priviliged, you will soon be living in God’s Country.
Literally. (via Steve B):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/31/christian-conservative-la_n_595268.html
T, you missed the smoking gun in that picture: a crescent wrench. A crescent wrench, man. It’s infecting the IDF with radiating Islamofascism as we speak, and I would assume those rough, tough commandos who shrink away from Pythonesque pointed sticks will start dropping like flies any minute now.
outside of the kinda cool looking scimitar,
It’s the fearsome looking screwdriver carefully laid on top of the scimitar that really scares the heck out of me. Obviously, anyone who would use a screwdriver as a weapon of mass destruction deserved to be shot on sight.
I spy a keffiyeh. Did Dunkin Donuts have the coffee franchise?
That’s gotta be the scariest weapons cache since Pink Floyd
I don’t know … the big knife looks like a Qutluch. And I think the monkey wrench was made from Cobalt Thorium G.
I see that the IDF finally caught the bastard that made off with my next-to-favorite pry bar (under the paint roller frame to the right).
When are the videos of the keel-hauling going to be posted?
I love Leonard Cohen. That’s a great song by him.
TBogg, I have to thank you and your commentariat for bringing the funny and the snark to this very sad episode. I needed the laugh.
You know who else was German?
Kraut. OK that’s not true but it sounds true, so it’s more correct in a Teaparty, create your own adventure manner. Plus their first gig was opening for The Clash at Bond’s in NYC, so that is quite impressive.
Yep, that’s a steel. Looks like Victorinox.
That kinda cool looking scimitar is a Yemeni (aaaiiiiieee terrorists) jambiya.
Tell ya what, those islamohumanitarists must have good arms if they were gonna use cutoff wheels as weapons.
Ooo, didn’t see the chains in the corner of the pic. It’s like the Jets and the Sharks all over again… except this time the Jets came with smoke and stun grenades, and lotsa real bullets.
Did the IDF raid the silverware drawers in the galley?
Appears the flotilla was going to thwart the IDF’s raid by cutting their meat into smaller pieces.
I can’t believe nobody’s spied the camping spoon/fork combo in the center of the picture (between the ass end of the bastard file and the tippy top of the 9″ chef’s knife). That thing looks a little rusty and able to inflict a serious case of tetanus if improperly used!
Thank G-d for the IDF, I’d hate for these weapons to fall into the hands of terra-ists.
I think I actually found the link to the “Hobo-Style folding knife with fork, knife and spoon”
http://store.advancedmart.com/hostfoknwifo.html
It’s even scarier than I first imagined!!11!eleventybillion!
I suppose it’s only an accident that those knives are piled on top of the Saudi Arabian flag. You know, the one that displays the shahada, the Islamic declaration of faith? It couldn’t be a deliberate act of desecration, could it?
Garsh, I wonder why teh IDF blog seems not to allow comments?