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2012-08-14 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
'We Could Destroy Parts Of Lebanon To Stop Rockets'
[Jerusalem Post] Former Mossad chief Yatom says rockets from Leb, Gazoo Strip "can cover all of Israel and that is the main problem."

The increasingly public discussion over a possible attack on Iran shifted slightly on Monday from reports of rifts within Israel's leadership, and deep divisions with the US, to how Israel might destroy parts of Leb and Gazoo if faced with a barrage of rockets from Hezbollah and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.

One of the most oft-mentioned scenarios is that if Israel were to attack Iran, Tehran would respond not only by sending long-range missiles toward the Jewish state, but also by directing Hezbollah and Hamas to rain tens of thousands of missiles down on the country.

Vice Premier Silvan Shalom, speaking to Israel Radio, said that Iran did not have an "unlimited number of missiles," and that it was not as if Israel could not stop massive rocket fire within 24 hours by attacking the infrastructure in Leb and Gazoo and paralyzing daily life there. He mentioned targets such as power plants, oil refineries and airports.

Former Mossad head Danny Yatom echoed the idea, saying Israel may need to destroy parts of Leb and Gazoo if Hezbollah and Hamas acted at Iran's behest and launched a massive rocket attack.

Yatom warned against presenting an apocalyptic picture of how the Islamic Theocratic Republic would respond if Israel took military action against its nuclear program.

While acknowledging that Iran had a few hundred missiles that could reach Israel, and that the price would be horrible if those missiles were equipped with either nuclear or chemical warheads, Yatom said the central concern was the tens of thousands of rockets in Hezbollah and Hamas storehouses in Leb and Gazoo.

Those rockets, he said, could "cover all of Israel, and that is the main problem."

Yatom said that the lesson Israel learned from the 2006 Second Leb War, when Hezbollah fired hundreds of rockets on the North, was that "we will have to stop the firing of missiles, both from the North and the South, as quickly as possible."

To do this, he said, Israel would have to "act with great force against infrastructure in Leb and Gazoo, and it is possible that the price that Leb and Gazoo will pay will be horrible. We are liable to destroy, or likely to destroy, parts of Leb and parts of Gazoo, so that our citizens will not suffer and be killed."

Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman picked up and amplified a theme first introduced last month by Defense Minister Ehud Barak: that the lesson Israel is taking away from the blood-letting in Syria is that the international community cannot be relied upon to intervene when needed.

"What is happening in Syria, unfortunately, is the failure of the international community to stop violence, the spilling of blood and the killing of civilians," he said.

Clearly hinting at the situation in Iran, Liberman said Syria was a test-case for the reliability of the international community.

"There is a basic question here. Can we, as people, as different, small countries, depend on the international community, with all the promises of security and guarantees?" he asked.

Liberman said that there was much talk about the situation in Syria in the UN Security Council, the EU and other forums. "What we did not see is any real ability to stop the mass slaughter of human beings," he said, adding that this raises "many difficult questions."
Posted by trailing wife 2012-08-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 Think of it as a learning event.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-08-14 01:36||   2012-08-14 01:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Or a 'teachable moment'.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2012-08-14 08:44||   2012-08-14 08:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Which one of the above depends on which side of the border I be is standing at the moment that Israeli missiles become more effective than Hizb'allah/Iranian ones,
Posted by trailing wife 2012-08-14 09:33||   2012-08-14 09:33|| Front Page Top

#4 the lesson Israel is taking away from the blood-letting in Syria is that the international community cannot be relied upon to intervene when needed

Plus there's several years decades of history...
Posted by Pappy 2012-08-14 10:36||   2012-08-14 10:36|| Front Page Top

#5 'We Could Destroy Parts Of Lebanon To Stop Rockets'
Sounds good to me, when will you start?
In fact level the place, there's been far more than "ENOUGH" from these Noisy little girls.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2012-08-14 11:41||   2012-08-14 11:41|| Front Page Top

#6 I would quietly tell the Hezbullies that the first rocket fired at my country would result in a nuclear holocaust that would totally devastate Lebanon for all time. I would also tell the UN "peacekeepers" that if they're there when the shooting starts, "so sorry, GI". As for Gaza, I'd tell Hama$$ that it's time to either act peacefully, or be destroyed, along with every structure in the Gaza strip. I'd tell them that we'd first bomb them to rubble, then bulldoze the rubble into the ocean. I'd also explain to Egypt that Cairo was in range of my nuclear missiles. As for the West Bank, I wouldn't issue a warning, I'd just start bulldozing it flat. I definitely wouldn't have the patience to put up with this crap for twenty years, like Israel has.

The number of Israeli citizens that have emigrated to the country is decreasing, while the number of native-born is constantly increasing. That's going to change how many of them think. I'm sure most of them already have a severe dislike for the Arabs trying to kill them. Turning the tables won't bother them much. The Arabs should begin to realize this, and act accordingly, but they won't. It takes 500 years for ANYTHING to penetrate their thick heads.
Posted by Old Patriot  2012-08-14 12:58||   2012-08-14 12:58|| Front Page Top

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