Sky News: Hizbollah Rocket Hits City Of Haifa

www.sky.com/skynews ^ | July 13, 2006 | Sky News

[dan_s]

Just a headline on British Sky News

UPDATE:

Middle East Rocket Strikes

[quantfive]

"Wonder what happened to Israeli missile defense? These long distance rockets should be capable of being intercepted by Patriot batteries. If this continues to escalate, look for Hamas to use WMDs provided by Syria via Saddam."

Israel has something much better then the Patriot Missle System. They have the ARROW system which is a ground-based laser interceptor. It's likely Hezbollah fired many more rockets which were intercepted but no system on earth touts 100% interception...

[sdk7x7]

LET'S ROLL!

[redgolum]

Growing up in the early 1980's, every time the EBS was tested I remember my Dad freezing for a minute to see if it was the "real deal".

In the Midwest, we also use it for tornado warnings.

[RightWhale]

Yes, they do. They have the test down to a quick routine that most listeners don't even notice.

[Diogenesis]

=========== Nahariya ===========

In Nahariya, Israel, where a Hezbollah-fired Iranian-made rockets
hit a building in the northern costal town.

[eyespysomething]

jveritas-

I'm praying for all who are over there. Let us know if there is any news about them.

[jveritas]

Thank you very much eyespy. I will keep you updated.

[Blogger]

I do see them as concurrent events. Israel will be fine. Some others, not so fine.

[Kenny Bunkport]

There's something...what's the word?...demonic about the way the vast majority of the world looks at Israel. On issues of theology, there are some within Christianity who believe that God has abandoned Israel, that the New Testament church is the "new Israel," but I don't buy that. When one considers Israel's detractors, considers how the "world community" would just as soon as let Israel be pushed into the sea, I think that's a pretty good indication that God is still on the side of Israel, that His covenant is still in force, and that the forces of hell have a lot of allies in the world of men and in the arena of nations. I still believe that God will bless those who bless Israel.

[Palladin]

The usual suspects have just had their heads handed to them by the US veto today on the attempt to censure Israel.

[Kenny Bunkport]

Every Friday morning around 11:00 a.m., the local air raid sirens would go off as a routine test. I remember being just home from college one June, in my room at home, my mother was visiting her sister, and my dad and I were the only ones in the house. About 6:00 one morning the air raid sirens went on, and my dad came flying into my room, white as a sheet. When I woke up enough to register that the siren was on, and seeing my dad with his eyes bugging out, my heart lept into my throat. Our family home was in Sunnyvale, CA, about four miles from Moffett Field NAS and a big Lockheed plant -- in other words, we were about four miles from Ground Zero. We both looked at each other with kind of a "What do we do now?" expression, and we were frozen until the siren went off. Of course, it turned out to be a faulty test alert, but the fact that we thought it might be the real thing, and that we didn't know what to do, indicated how helpless we'd be in a real attack.

[Kenny Bunkport]

Now would be a good time to withdraw from the UN. A worthless organization taking up valuable real estate in Manhattan.

[redgolum]

I grew up 40 miles or so from SAC command at Omaha. At the time, it was one of the most heavily targeted areas on earth.

Since the sirens were also used for weather, our first instinct was to check the sky. My Dad also looked to the missile bases to see if they were lighting up.

Hard to explain to my wife what growing up like that was. She is just young enough that she doesn't remember much of the cold war. I can still pick up my piece of the Berlin Wall and remember it.

[Palladin]

Most assuredly. It has always been a haven for the spies of our enemies.

Besides, when the UN goes, there will be a whole lot more good apartments and parking spaces available for Americans in NYC.

[Kenny Bunkport]

Hard to explain to my wife what growing up like that was.

I knew a guy who was an Air Force brat whose dad was stationed at Nellis AFB in NV. He was a kid when the US was still conducting above-ground tests of nuclear weapons north of Las Vegas. He said that even though a nuke test was highly classified, everyone living on the base knew when the next one was scheduled. His family, and all their neighbors, would get up and go outside in the middle of the night to watch the "bomb" go off. When it lit up, the neighborhood appeared as if it were mid-day. He said it was funny seeing all his neighbors in their nightclothes.

I told him, "Growing up watching nuclear bombs going off...That explains a lot about you." :-)

[RegulatorCountry]

"Glad it missed."

You're telling me, lol. No lasting damage, other than the faint nausea I feel whenever the EBS goes off, and two Labrador Retrievers who become a slobbering, shivering mess whenever a storm's around now, when they barely even noticed up until that day. The photos and papers that floated down out of the sky were pretty memorable, though. From miles away. We tried to return them all to where they belonged, but some went unclaimed. We don't get all that many tornados around here, and only very rarely are they as large as that one was (F4) ... I really don't know how people deal with it occurring frequently. Once is enough for me.

[freepertoo]

Maybe not a good time to withdraw from the U.N....we're at least there to veto their resolutions against Israel! :-D

[Kenny Bunkport]

LOL Good point. We provide a useful role in standing in the way of the rest of the world's demented policies.

[Kenny Bunkport]

[Cindy]

Thanks for the ping fanfan.

OPINION: If I understand the breaking news, it was a Fajr7 missile.