[ExSES]

They'll stand around and remark to each other that it sure is strange that meteors are going up rather than coming down! By coincidence, a phenomenon known as the Perseid meteor showers is occurring this very weekend!

However, those DO come down and not go up (at least from our frame of reference)...

[La Enchiladita]

Sorta diagonal...?

[casino66]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/749267.html

General interest story about the suffering of the people in Safed shelters.
" A farewell to welfare "

By Meron Rapoport

The minister of defense from Block 213 in the Ofer neighborhood of Safed is called Rachel Barzilai. She has no army rank or military background, but she has five children, a husband and 40 families she has taken under her wing in the apartment block built into the side of a mountain in the southern part of the city, overlooking Mt. Meron and the municipal hospital. Four weeks have passed since the first rocket barrage on Safed. Four weeks since the State of Israel disappeared from sight in Block 213, just as it disappeared from Safed and the entire area from the Acre-Safed highway to the northern border."

[MontanaMatt]

Special Report: Israel at Odds With Itself August 11, 2006 23 14 GMT

http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php?id=272351 p> . . . But we increasingly have the feeling that there is an aspect to Israeli thinking that we do not understand, some concern that is not apparent that is holding them back from doing what they would normally do. . .

This article alludes to something holding the Israeli's up, such as an outside source or a fear of a greater problem. (IRAN?)