Posted on 08/07/2014 3:48:49 AM PDT by markomalley
As Operation Protective Edge winds down, there is growing speculation about the next and far more serious military threat that the country may be forced to confront. On its northern border with Lebanon, the Israeli army is faced with the daunting prospect of 100,000 long-range rockets far more accurate and effective than the missiles used by Hamas in its recent confrontation and far more likely to cause damage to life and property than the former offensive.
Hizb'allah, which launched a 34-day offensive against Israel in July, 2006, is the Hamas threat multiplied tenfold.
The former conflict is believed to have killed at least 1,191–1,300 Lebanese people and 165 Israelis. It severely damaged Lebanese civil infrastructure, and temporarily displaced approximately one million Lebanese and 300,000–500,000 Israelis
During that war, Hizb’allah fired close to 4,200 rockets at a rate of more than 100 per day, unprecedented in any military confrontation since the Iran-Iraq War. About 95% of these were 122 mm (4.8 in) Katyusha artillery rockets which carried warheads up to 30 kg (66 Ib) and had a range of up to 19 miles. A minor percentage (22%) of these rockets hit cities and built-up areas across northern Israel, while the remainder hit open areas. The attacks in that conflict included the Fajr-3 and Ra'ad 1 rockets both liquid-fuel missiles developed by Iran. It is now known that Hizb’allah possesses the far more advanced Fajr-3 and Fajr-5, with ranges of 27 and 45 miles; and a huge quantity of simpler 107mm and 122mm rockets with ranges up to 12 miles. These rockets are capable of striking many cities in northern Israel, such as Haifa, Tiberias, Afula, Nahariya, and Safed. In addition, Hizb’allah has a cache of sophisticated antiaircraft and antiship cruise missiles which can…
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This is the path to Iran. They must fight these two wars first. Then Iran.
I was expecting it while the Gaza operation was going on.
When again, depleting Israel’s stockpile of Iron Dome missiles was part of the future plan.
Then again......
Don’t bother odumbo, the media or the liberals with the facts, their minds (tiny as they may be) are made up. It’s all Israel’s fault.
Don’t bother odumbo, the media or the liberals with the facts, their minds (tiny as they may be) are made up. It’s all Israel’s fault.
I expected Hezbollah to attack during the Gaza conflict. The ISIS conquest of the northern part of Lebanon may have changed all of that
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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How different it would be if the Marines in Beirut had been able to protect themselves or there had been an appropriate response by the Reagan administration.
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