Posted on 04/07/2010 9:06:03 AM PDT by Ben Mugged
Israel Tuesday began distributing millions of protection kits against biochemical warfare, Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai announced, stressing the campaign was not linked to any imminent threat. "We have equipped ourselves with millions of protection kits against biological or chemical warfare, and a massive distribution programme for the population started today," Vilnai told army radio.
"Every family in Israel can receive these kits at home and be instructed on how to use them by Israeli postal workers, at an average cost of 25 shekels (five dollars), or pick them up free of charge at post office counters."
The distribution came as an aide to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, quoted by the Islamic republic's Fars news agency on Tuesday, warned that his country would hit Tel Aviv with missiles if it came under attack.
"If the enemy takes its chance and fires a missile towards Iran, the dust from an Iranian missile strike will rise in the heart of Tel Aviv even before the dust from the enemy attack settles" in Iran, said cleric Mojtaba Zolnoor.
Iran has regularly boasted of its missile capability, saying it has an arsenal which can strike Israel, which along with Washington has not ruled out a military strike to halt Tehran's controversial nuclear programme.
But Vilnai emphasized the distribution of the protection kits was "not linked to any precise current threat."
The Israeli government decided on January 5 to distribute eight million new gas masks, one for each citizen, by 2013 and already distributed gas masks to 70,000 residents of Or Yehuda, near Tel Aviv in February.
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If there was a precise threat Israel would have already struck a blow.
What does Israel that the American public does not?
I hope the Israeli gov’t will make sore that NONE of the Palestinians will receive any of these kits.
Obama is signing a treaty that says we won't use nukes against an enemy who attacks us on our own soil with chem or bio weapons. If we won't stand up for our own country, Israel is damn certain that Obama will sit on his hands as they are attacked.
We simply do not have the bandwidth to adequately answer that question.
Excellent point!
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