Posted on 07/12/2014 3:58:10 PM PDT by Leaning Right
I was watching a segment on Fox about the current Hamas rocket attack on Israel. Evidently, hundreds of rockets have been launched in the past few days. Three questions occured to me.
One, where did all these rockets come from (who manufactured them)?
Two, who paid for these rockets?
Three, how did these rockets get into Gaza? Were they smuggled in from Egypt?
There are tunnels all over the place. I hear some are from Iran. Some are sent by ships.
They are being smuggled in originally from Iran, through Lebanon, some through Syria, but the majority of them come through Lebanon..most are the short range rockets, but others have longer range(The ones that you are seeing come through Tel Aviv) the Iron Dome protects Israel the majority of the time, but it can’t be expected to handle all of the rockets being shot in, once in a while a rocket gets through..a few days ago it made a direct hit on a gas station, hurting 1 person severely..the rockets are being shot from the Gaza Strip..Hamas purposely puts these rockets in schools and homes with women and children so that there will be mass casualties and those images will play on TV
Iran sent some of them. The “sewer pipe” that was openly delivered was turned into rockets so all of the above I guess.
The largest and most accurate probably come as-is from Iran; perhaps a small amount of assembly required.
The next size down probably come as parts and put together in Gaza.
On the low end, I think they are just home grown... doesn't take much to launch a piece of pipe when you couldn't care less where it lands.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hamas-firing-china-designed-syria-made-m-302-rockets-israel-n152461
In essence there is always somebody willing to make a buck. Nicolas Cage played an arms dealer in (I think) Lord of War. Essentially, that explains how it works.
Many times other countries are playing at proxy war. Then there are countries like Russia that have zero control over what gets exported so long as the right officials are bribed. Most likely the rockets are from Russia, China, North Korea and/or Iran. All are lawless wild-west zones where a buck will get you anything you want.
A lot of the smaller ones are not much more than PVC pipe with some solid rocket fuel and a little explosives on the tip. They ARE manufactured in Gaza.
Apparently, another weak spot in the geography is the Sinai. It’s a demilitarized zone and I hear it’s become a haven for terrorists. They can go into gaza from there.
Both Egypt and Israel have been in a quandry as to how to deal with Sinai. If Egypt were to patrol it, then it becomes a security risk for Israel, and is against the agreement between both countries to have their militarys there. So, both chose to honor that agreement.
The mess in the middle east is extremely complex, and I’m only just tapping the edges trying to understand the situation there.
It took someone else to explain to me, some of it. Makes my head spin.
one might suppose ‘we’ paid for them.
$440 Million to Hamas/Palestine this year
Round signpost poles are also used, as I recall. Not that hard to make if you don’t care what they hit.
I suspect the majority of them resemble what you can buy at Hobby Lobby, plus an explosive warhead with a contact detonator.(Only larger)
National Geographic article on the tunnels in Gaza
Some decent info on the tunnels with a WAY left liberal bias
Not the National Geographic I read when I was young
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/12/gaza-tunnels/verini-text
Two, who paid for these rockets?
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and most middle east muslim countries.
Also Europeans and the U.S. under the guise of "humanitarian" help to the "Palestinians."
Three, how did these rockets get into Gaza? Were they smuggled in from Egypt?
Many directly from Syria, by way of various paths from the country of origin. Many by sea, but Israel keeps intercepting the most blatant attempts by sea.
Took me right back to childhood with that one.
A very large bombing raid into Germany in WWII was 600 planes, but those bigger bombers in Europe like the B-17 carried more than one bomb, and several 500 or 1000 lb bombs would of course hit the city below from one bomber. B-25, Hudson, B-26 were smaller of course. Stuka had a smaller payload, Lancaster a larger payload so you can’t quite compare WWII to Gaza ....
What is the average payload on these? And how “in-accurate” are they? 1/2 mile in 20 miles? Or worse? Just randomly falling?
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