Anyone my age will recall Marvin the Martian, the Loony Toons character who wanted to blow the earth into nothingness using his “Eludium PU-36 explosive space modulator”, but whose nefarious plans were foiled by Bugs Bunny.
Marvin, of course, is fictional, but apparently Israel has invented what the folks at Warner Brothers only dreamed of: a bomb that vaporizes Gazans into nothingness. At least, that’s the conclusion to draw if one believes what the Hamas-controlled Gaza Civil Defense department recently told Al-Jazeera.
“Israel is testing weapons on us that we do not recognize. They drop bombs with terrifying sounds, and when a person gets within 200-300 meters of them, they vaporize.
“The massacres happening in northern Gaza are unknown to us until later. Nobody calls to inform us. The Israeli army bombs entire residential blocks, wiping out all their inhabitants, and we only find out about them a day or two later.”
And we know that those Hamas mouthpieces never, ever lie. Heck, they don’t even exaggerate. So we’ll have to accept their word that 1760 people in Gaza were made to disappear by this new, powerful weapon.
I have not found a patent application for this new weapon, but then I would think that if someone filed such a thing, it would be subject to a secrecy order. And I suspect that if such an application were to be examined, it would get knocked out with prior art such as the Empire’s Death Star, or before that, the Martian death rays in H.G. Wells’ “The War of the Worlds”.