Bulldozer.

This is coolbert:

A very big hot button item within "progressive" circles now is to divest of Caterpillar stock.

Caterpillar is the manufacturer of the D9 bulldozer.

Has been made into a formidable armored bulldozer used by Israeli forces.

Used in circumstances that really riles up some folks.

Demolishing homes of Arabs, bulldozing olive orchards, etc.

This "dozer" is a very large and powerful piece of equipment just unto itself. With the addition of armor [up to fifteen tons of armor], the appearance and size of this "beast" is awesome.

It is almost as if you are watching scenes from the Terminator One movie. Machines fighting to exterminate the human-kind. Human-kind on foot armed with primitive and often ineffective weapons. Such as the accompanying photo. Those persons in the foreground of the photo appear to be throwing rocks at the "dozer", which is clearing an olive grove.



Bulldozers are a weapon of war. Used by combat engineers with effectiveness.

Used against fortifications both on Japanese held islands during World War Two [WW2], and by U.S. Army troops during the First Gulf War.

"Dozers" that would then seal the firing slits of enemy bunkers by piling earth or sand against the slits. Entombing the occupants. Suffocation is the result. A valid and legal method of war.

The unfortunate incident where the American "peace activist" Rachel Corrie was run over and killed by one of these bulldozers created a cause celebre'. I can almost tell with exact certitude what happened. The "dozer" operator, when in the cabin of the bulldozer, has only a limited field of view. Rachel was close to the bulldozer's path, standing fast, but NOT in the operator's field of view. HE DID NOT SEE HER. She thought he would stop because of her obstinacy, but HE DID NOT SEE HER!

She was run over and killed. Simple as that. An accident. Very unfortunate. Probably NOT deliberate or callous.

coolbert.