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Monday, December 29, 2008

Air Strikes Mark The Passing Of Ceasefire Deadline.

It has been a bloody weekend in the Gaza strip with 280 dead and over 600 wounded during the Israeli offensive against Hamas targets. Israeli tanks and personnel carriers line the border  as Hamas continue to hit back with rocket attacks. This worrying escalation in violence was discussed in a  radio 2GB interview with Luke Bonna,  broadcast on Monday 27th December. Israeli Air Strikes.

Picture below sourced from Wikipedia. Hamas militants with Yasin Rocket propelled Grenade

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From a conservative commentator, Benny Morris, of the New York Times:

"To the north, the Lebanese fundamentalist organization Hezbollah, which also vows to destroy Israel and functions as an Iranian proxy, has thoroughly rearmed since its war with Israel in 2006. According to Israeli intelligence estimates, Hezbollah now has an arsenal of 30,000 to 40,000 Russian-made rockets, supplied by Syria and Iran — twice the number it possessed in 2006. Some of the rockets can reach Tel Aviv and Dimona, where Israel’s nuclear production facility is located."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/opinion/30morris.html?_r=1&em=&pagewanted=all
(or Google Bernie Morris New York Times, on Google News)

The Morris article was discussed by Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories - recently expelled from Palestine by the Israelis.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-falk/understanding-the-gaza-ca_b_154777.html
(Richard Falk - Understanding the Gaza Catastrophe January 2 2009)

The targeting of Dimona by these wildly inaccurate missiles would be in an interesting development, indeed.

Sir Vivor | January 3, 2009 09:14

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