Iran is in fact forcing a direct military confrontation upon Israel. We are not only talking about President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s exaggerated verbal passion or the Iranian nuclear project. Thus far, Iran conducted a war of attrition against Israel via its emissaries: Hizbullah, Hamas, and other Palestinian groups. At this time, the war is reaching new peaks; it will be impossible to continue ignoring them while only engaging with the emissaries. Based on foreign reports, the Air Force bombed about two months ago, in Sudan, a shipment of medium-range rockets with a range of 70 kilometers (roughly 40 miles,) apparently the Fajar 3 model. This is not a small missile. In fact, it is a missile that the Iranians are manufacturing especially for the Gaza Strip, so that it can be dismantled to several pieces and smuggled in through the Gaza tunnels. This is also the way they produced the special Grad rockets for Gaza: Disassembled models, made in Iran, and designated for smuggling. Making our life intolerable The picture is becoming clearer: The Iranians are aiming to establish a rocket base south of Israel that would cover the entire Gush Dan area in central Israel from the south. This is not paranoia. The “tight grip theory,†namely, clasping the State of Israel from both the north and south, turns Iran into a concrete enemy, rather than a theoretical one. It would be impossible to keep blaming Hizbullah and Hamas all the time, sort of like looking for the money you lost under the streetlight because it is more convenient that way. The Iranians are not only investing in the unconventional realm, but also in the conventional field, in order to eliminate the State of Israel or at least in order to make life here intolerable.
..... whereas isreal is busy spending billions of dollars of aid on harvesting wheat and corn crops ...
Seems strange you're very concerned over these small bombs considering Israel's the only nation there with a nuclear arsenal. How do you think the whole Middle East feel about them?
Israel is the only country that I feel halfway comfortable about having nukes in the ME. Compare Israel having nukes to Pakistan for example and Israel hardly even registers on the oh shit scale.
A time line of what will happen. 1. they start building it 2. Israel bomb the crap out of it near the end of it's construction 3. the rest of middle east say "waa waa, why do Israel have to pick on us peaceful people?"
So just because you are not "comfortable" no one else has the right to have weapons to balance the power?
There are different views about these islamic countries... I personally think that USA attacks on Afghanistan, Iraq and want more steps to handle the oil refineries and on the other hand israel is killing many innocent childs, women, oldies and others because of some people. So, in this situation other countries have to prepare for their defense for safety. this is being caused to prepare missiles by Iranian Gov. but I wish to have peace everywhere in all the universe so we all will feel as we are in heaven valley.
The Iranians have been smuggling missiles through Sudan for some time. There's probably Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Gaza.
Honestly, as long as it is just for DEFENSE, like Iran is claiming, than I have no problem with it. Every country, no matter how much I dislike them/their politics, has a right to defend themselves from foreign attacks. That being said, I don't think it is just for defense. Iran has been meddling in the ME for a while now, all the while claiming they are not. The US has been meddling there too long as well. I wish exrtremists would stop terrorizing people, and all countries could just have some peace for a while. The ME has been fighting for WAY too long, isn't it about time that they stop?
I feel the same way. There has been too much pain and destruction for the past 100 years now, especially after the end of WWII. Its about time the madness stopped. People fighting for a tiny piece of land that is sacred to all 3 Semitic religions. One people claim they lived there 2000 years ago and want it back, no matter the human cost. The other people say they have been living there for centuries, its their home, their country, and they see it as the last western imperial outpost. I say evacuate all the people, completely, 100%, all living souls otta there... and then nuke the God-damned place so that no one can live there for a 100 years. That would definitely end the bloodshed quickly. We can hope that 100 years hence, these two groups forget about the land and don't go back to killing each other...