Reference:- In many respects , war is a numbers game .
Yesterday the lads decided to run a home made pizza night , and dog enjoys that because there are always plenty of pieces of left over crust chucked his way . Dog catches them in his jaws midair . Sometimes he just stands there and snaps them up with barely a movement and avoids making eye contact . Other times he makes a deliberate display of exaggerated acrobatics , and looks at us with a beaming smile to court our praise . Sometimes the exaggerated acrobatics make him miss the catch .
Anyway , the lads started talking about how many crusts dog missed , which is few indeed . The general consensus was that he missed about one in eight . We didn't run a trial though , since there would not be enough pizza left for us . That got us talking about numbers again , and the topic of the Israeli hostage returns .
Yesterday Mr Netanyahu praised the brave soldiers of the IDF for retrieving two hostages . The retrieval has been described as a "perfect " operation . Apparently a few dozen Palestinian women and children were killed because Hamas was using them as human shields , but there has not been much on the Israeli news about that . There have now been a total of 3 hostages released as a result of direct military action . Ken junior reminded us that the IDF also killed three Israeli hostages when they shot them by mistake , and killed another with poisonous gas , so I guess that strictly speaking a total of 7 hostages have been removed from captivity by the IDF .....one way or another .
Over 500 brave IDF soldiers have given their lives to achieve this result , but Mr Netanyahu has explained that the only way to free the hostages is to wage relentless war , since it is impossible to negotiate with Hamas . I explained this to Ken junior .
" The only way to free the hostages is to wage relentless war , since it is impossible to negotiate with Hamas . ", I said .
" But 110 Israeli hostages were released months ago without loss of life as a result of negotiation with Hamas . " , Ken junior said .
" That was then . It is completely different now ." , I explained .
The Israeli media described the two recently released hostages as having lost a lot of weight during four months in captivity .
" One of them looks like he has a BMI of about 35 . ", Ken junior said.
" Huh? " , I said .
" He looks like he will need to stay on the Hamas diet for at least another four months to get his weight down into a healthy range . " , Ken junior said .
Sometimes I haven't a clue what the lad is banging on about .
Has anybody ever heard of this BMI thing ?
Your comrade , Ken
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