Re: Iran vs Israel
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I'm shocked that asymmetrical and/or nonconventional tactics didn't appear on your list of "threats".
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Why are you confusing the terrorist threat with the military threat? Is it all a jumble of confusion in your mind?
It should not be, because it is really quite simple : Terrorists inflict serious harm on individuals and sometimes whole neighborhoods, but the state of Israel itself is in no danger of finding itself, from their activities, militarily defeated or under some foreign occupation.
A military threat, on the other hand, comes almost always on a much grander scale, from another country, and is backed up by a plentiful military capability.
It should be abundantly clear to any one with half a mind to be accurate in what one says, that Israelis are suffering from terrorism but Israel has practially nothing to fear from outside military threats.
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You forgot 1.d - Finance and provide personnel, logistical support, and materiel including fissile, chemical, and biological weapons for deployment by terrorists on a large scale, perhaps by leveraging, say, existing terror networks such as hizbollah in Lebanon.
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Hezbollah will continue to stage sporadic suicide bombings, guerilla incusrions (followed by suicide missions) and clumsy rocket launches -- but that's it. Hezbollah will not resort to using biological or other such mass destruction weapons, if not for any other reason because this will kill indiscriminately and on a large scale Palestinians as well.
And what's a fissile ? [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]
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