I know, I know, it seems attractive, but there's a few problems with using neutron bombs. I realize I'm considered soft on everything, but the use of these things needs to be thought through.

First, for the Palestinians to use them a neutron bomb would have to be shaped sorta like a Wonder Bra, or maybe a hoop skirt, and that design hasn't been perfected. The latest guesstimates are that it would take a 150 kg. woman with 8% body fat max to haul it around. Couldn't get it through the checkpoints. Physically. They aren't wide enough unless she was in the back of a pickup. Could never get it into a building, her mobility would be severely constrained.

Second, they won't meet the Israelis needs. Couldn't get them to use one. The bombs tend kill people and leave the buildings standing. That's just a bit backwards. The Israelis get off on levelling the houses and apartments. War is no fun unless you can leave a few thousand folks homeless.

The Israelis don't have the problems the Palestinians do with delivery, though. They have even thought of a way to get one into the camps without dropping it from a plane. They would disguise it as a big olive hanging from an olive branch, and leave it in the center of a town as a "peace" offering, a symbolic gesture of their goodwill now that everyone has done their one month a year military obligation and they are leaving. Sort of a "just kidding, nothing personal" offering. Sooner or later some Palestinian would come up and kick it, and "BOOM". (Does a neutron bomb make a noise if no one is left to hear it?)

That scenario has the advantage of leaving the Israelis off the hook. After all, if a Palestinian hadn't kicked their "peace offering", it would never have exploded.

But, it wouldn't leave anyone homeless.

Just call me sentimental, or whatever, but I can see some problems with this idea.

Arf