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Barak: We have our eyes on Syria, Lebanon
Roni Sofer
Published: 08.04.08, 00:50
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1. A Good Offense Trumps a Moderate Defense
Dave Levy ,   Burbank. CAUSA   (04.08.08)
Isn't that nice of Barak, trying to comfort the disable parents of that gallant soldier, who died for nothing. Hez has 40,000 rockets..Syria is loaded with Scuds, Iran has no intention of stopping it's nuke plans, Russia is arming Fatah, and Hamas just boasted murdering a Jew in Tel Aviv. What does Barak do, he boasts of Israel's strength. Well, hows about wacking Hamas if they harm one hair of Shalits head. Or better, take the war to them..stop the Kassams and Grads, like yesterday. Barak, having an emergency drill of this magnitude is pointless against thousands of bcn warheads. Unlike basketball, a good offense is better than a poor defense. Make THEM worry, and find defenses for their population. Israel is again reacting. Where are the BenGurions, Shamirs, Begins and Sharons?
2. Today, at the Post Office, I talked to a clerk from Yemen.
Rivkah   (04.08.08)
I asked him if Yemen is still Communist and he said, No. He told me that when the Russians took control of Yemen, they took everything without paying for it: crops, store goods, whatever they wanted. Now, President Assad of Syria is going to learn the sad lessons of Egypt and Yemen. The Russian treated the Egyptians so badly, Gamel Abdul Nasser became a hero when he threw them out. Syria will learn what the consequences are of giving Russia two deep water ports and letting massive armaments come into Syria from Russia. The Russians will turn on the Syrians and take control and Mr. Assad will then be a puppet President. Things are heating up in the Middle East. I just read that as of March 20, 2008, America is at war with Iran, even though the US Congress and the public have not been informed. That is according to John McGlynn of Global Research. The American offensive against the Mahdi Army of the Shi ite Militia which is supplied by Iran is a defacto declaration of war against Iran.
3. nO ITENTION OF FIGHTING - JUST RUNNING
klaus ,   Jerusalem   (04.08.08)
4. Inference of the last war in Lebanon.
Robert Bernier ,   Tel Aviv   (04.08.08)
Following the last war in Lebanon, Israel will have to draw certain major lessons to ensure its long-term strategic survival. What is needed now, immediately and urgently, are thoughtful and coherent guidelines concerning national defense, deterrence, targeting and even preemption (anticipatory self-defense). It is no longer adequate for Israel (more or less capably) to merely stumble from one war to the next without an appropriate “master plan” for direction. Armed with such a framework of expanded conceptual understanding, the Jewish state could quickly begin to deduce pertinent tactics and policy options to match particular situations and crises. In the near-term, of course, the need of both nuclear war avoidance and counter-WMD terrorism. The war against Hizbullah does not concern Israel only, as explained at : http://xrl.us/bi3hn
5. front page foto; preparing
(04.08.08)
Barak, unprecedentedly, attends synagogue!
6. Stop blaming Hamas. Blame YOUR silly Oslo accord.
Miriam ,   Israel   (04.08.08)
7. 5: Daniel in the Bible did not attend synagogue, but he
Rivkah   (04.08.08)
prayed three times a day, facing Jerusalem. God honored his faith and prayers, even though Daniel did not go to Jewish services. There are many home based prayers and fasting. Watch the movie "Fiddler on the Roof" and you will see Shabbat celebrated with lit candles and prayers and special clothes and dishes in the home on Friday evening. Even in this day and age, many Jews cannot function in society without maintaining their faith in secret at home, reading the Bible and worshipping God at home since going to synagogue makes them a target. Would Mr. Barak be a target at a synagogue in Israel? Probably not, if he went to different services in different locations so his routine did not become known.
8. #7 Rivkah, agree with you;
observer   (04.08.08)
Menachem Begin attended synagogues; that is why he lost to Sadat.
9. Day One - The War With Iran.
johny b goode ,   new york   (04.08.08)
Day One - The War With Iran.The war began as planned. The Israeli pilots took off well before dawn and streaked across Lebanon and northern Iraq, high above Kirkuk. Flying US-made F-15 and F-16s, the Israelis separated over the mountains of western Iran, the pilots gesturing a last minute show of confidence in their mission, maintaining radio silence. Just before the sun rose over Tehran, moments before the Muslim call to prayer, the missiles struck their targets. While US Air Force AWACS planes circled overhead--listening, watching, recording--heavy US bombers followed minutes later. Bunker-busters and mini-nukes fell on dozens of targets while Iranian anti-aircraft missiles sped skyward. The ironically named Bushehr nuclear power plant crumbled to dust. Russian technicians and foreign nationals scurried for safety. Most did not make it. Targets in Saghand and Yazd, all of them carefully chosen many months before by Pentagon planners, were destroyed. The uranium enrichment facility in Natanz; a heavy water plant and radioisotope facility in Arak; the Ardekan Nuclear Fuel Unit; the Uranium Conversion Facility and Nuclear Technology Center in Isfahan; were struck simultaneously by USAF and Israeli bomber groups. The Tehran Nuclear Research Center, the Tehran Molybdenum, Iodine and Xenon Radioisotope Production Facility, the Tehran Jabr Ibn Hayan Multipurpose Laboratories, the Kalaye Electric Company in the Tehran suburbs were destroyed. Iranian fighter jets rose in scattered groups. At least those Iranian fighter planes that had not been destroyed on the ground by swift and systematic air strikes from US and Israeli missiles. A few Iranian fighters even launched missiles, downing the occasional attacker, but American top guns quickly prevailed in the ensuing dogfights.
10. If you really want to comfort her.................
Rachel Brown   (04.08.08)
PUT YOUR TONGUE IN HER MOUTH ! It's a Zionist messorah !
11. Yes Miriam, Oslo Accord permitted tripling the settlements
observer   (04.08.08)
to 2700 only.
12. #9 War Report Continued
James ,   Sydney   (04.08.08)
However, as expected, Iranian retribution has been swift and painful. Despite being unable to overcome the joint Israeli-American aerial campaign which left the Iranian airforce and nuclear program crippled, hundreds of Iranian Shahab-2 and Shahab-3 missiles have struck a range of targets in Israel. Meanwhile, fighting has broken out on the Northern front, as Hezbollah began lobbing hundreds of rockets into Northern and Central Israel. UNIFIL - the UN force in Southern Lebanon - is proving unable to prevent the attacks as most of Hezbollah's stockpiles are now located North of the Litani river. Plans for emergency evacuation of the force and of foreign nationals are already underway. As was the case in 2006, the IAF appears to be unable to prevent the continuation of the rocket attacks because of the carefully positioned rocket stockpiles within civilian and residential areas. Minor border skirmishes have also been reported on the Golan Heights, and some fear that Syria - the nation with the largest chemical weapons stockpile in the Middle-East - will join the war and fulfill its obligations to Iran under their mutual defense pact. While being unable to challenge Israel in conventional warfare, Syria too possesses a formidable ballistic missile stockpile which could be equipped with chemical and biological warheads, causing widespread devastation among Israeli civilians, who are not properly equipped to handle such an attack. While Israel's four-tier anti-ballistic missile system has proven effective, it is clearly not designed to handle such large numbers of missiles being fired simultaneously. Rather than the 90% of missiles being intercepted as Ehud Barak predicted, only some 10% of rockets and missiles being fired at Israel are being successfully intercepted. Another potentially problematic factor is Israel's Arab population. While being citizens of Israel, some (though not all) of this sector have previously demonstrated support for Hezbollah rocket attacks, and an uprising is not unconceivable. Some analysts predict that the death toll in Israel will exceed 500 civilians within the first week of fighting, as well as extensive damage being caused to the Israeli economy and tourism industry.
13. #9,12 johny-James (JJ) overseas cartoon trade Co.
(04.08.08)
how much, do you think, you will get from selling your story?
14. you miserable failure'you can't even defend sderot
chaim ,   brooklyn n.y   (04.08.08)
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