We might be far better served contemplating how best to send our enemies to THEIR graves beforehand. A simple push of a button will do it, and we will save a great deal of Jewish grief. I would consider that a job well done. Ask me if I really care how hard the Nasrallah family may weep ..... Do you know how blight on roses requires that the entire bush be trashed? Let's trash the entire bush of the blight upon the nations. Civilization is at stake. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE!!!

Nuclear explosions or catastrophe threaten wide regions with mass deaths of humans. But it did not happen in Japan after the recent earthquake and tsunami, as explained in this month's National Geographic issue. Several towns were evacuated, possibly for a very long time, and decontamination work is continuing. Mass death from nuclear catastrophe was a serious threat in Japan, but their rescue teams are able to handle the threat so far.

I think you will find that there is a concept of temproary burial in halachah. thus exhuming a body that has been originally buried on a temporary basis (eg bury me in moscow now until my family has enough moeny to move me to New York, or Jerusalem or anywhere else) would not be considered desecration of the dead.

highest scientific Authority in matters concerning our obviously fast approaching Future! I want to make it publicly known, that I shall refuse ANY notion of DYING (be that in a nuclear, chemical or biological attack) until these pressing issues have been resolved to the full satisfaction of the Earthly Representatives of the Higher but Unseen Authority. Not a day sooner, I'm telling you!!!!!!

Caused by natural means , such as Earthquakes & Tsunami's, or man made, like Nuclear, like Hiroshima & Nagasaki Both types result in massive deaths & destructions It seems you may ve overlooked what happened recently in Japan, the the Fukushima reactor malfunctioned which resulted in a Tsunami, which is effecting Japan until this very day Or how about what happened to Haiti a couple of years ago, people are still living (if you can call it that it) makeshift shelters without proper sanitiation & water supplies I would tend to believe that Israel is acting to anticipate a potential disaster caused by man rather than by nature I can't figure out why you tend to think otherwise

If the worst were to happen and a mass burial became necessary, violating some religious rule would be the least of the country's problems at that point.

The reactor malfunctioning resulted in a tsunami that is still affecting Japan? You mean earthquake which resulted in a tsunami that devastated many coastal villages and damaging the Japanese reactors.

16,000 people died in the Japanese earthquake and tsunami of 2011. If that is not "mass deaths" then I don't know what number would satisfy you.

Well said ,I prefer my enemies to die ,and should there be mass casualties here ,heaven forbid ,the least of our worries will be halachic minutia .I fear that Israel will have a nasty wake up call in the not too distant future.

And, I wrote AFTER -- not during -- the earthquake and tsunami. Oh dear ...

You been chasing your own tail. Take a walk, get some sunshine,...

High up; many nice steep hills with narrow streets except that one by that big church. Yep. You'd really just have to defend the two highway entrances really, unless there's a back way in.

Push the bloody button and flatten your enemies before they get the chance to fire. This is Judaism.

Did you not comprehend the article ? that the I.D.F. are concerned about a future mass casualty situation ,G-d forbid ? Or do you presume to be better informed than the I.D.F ?? Tsfat is a very safe place for the time being ,it is also home of Northern Command and therefore would be a potential target in any future war . I am not personally worried ,but the military here know that any future conflagration would likely not be a picnic. So please save your facetious comments from New York .

Then do the same for Hirsoshima & Nagasaki I would suspect the Israel isn't nearly concerned about a natural disaster, as she is about a man made one, such as Iranian threat to destroy Israel being attempted and carried out with some degree of success

bury hundreds of thousands of the their soldiers and civilians?

Absolutely -do unto others what they would do to you,but do it first.First rule os survival.Has nothing to do with Judaism.Obviously you care about Jewish welfare-otherwise why post on a Jewish site.

The subject under discussion is a "Possible Rocket Attack", not a natural disaster

I can understand your failure to understand, remove your head from your rearmost orifice, get some fresh air