Saturday, January 10, 2009

The future: Missiles on Tel Aviv


Endgame in Gaza -Charles Krauthammer

A [ceasefire] deal would buy Israel maybe a couple of years. After which, Round Two - with Hamas rockets by then killing civilians in Tel Aviv and making Ben-Gurion Airport unusable.
(Washington Post)


UPDATES:

Israel's Motivation for March into Gaza -Oakland Ross

"It's only a matter of a year or two before Hamas threatens Ben-Gurion, the only international airport Israel has," said Hillel Frisch, senior research fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv.

"The moment any missile flies within 10 kilometers of that airport, no foreign airline will fly that route."
(Toronto Star)


Israel's Gaza Offensive Also Confronts Iran -Con Coughlin

The Grad rockets provided by Iran, mean[s] that Hamas now has the capability to hit targets deep within Israel's heartland, a development that precipitated the Israeli government's decision to launch the current offensive in Gaza.
(Telegraph-UK)


1 comment:

LHwrites said...

Yes. there is no reason for more of the same. To let the world force Israel to repeat the same actions of past years will only ensure the same results as in past years.