© AFP Photo/Jack GuezAn Israeli F-15 fighterjet
Last week dramatically worsened the confrontation between Israel and Palestine. 14 November this year, Israel launched a massive air strike operation against the Palestinian Hamas movement, which is the main force in the Gaza Strip.
The official stated purpose of the operation, which was called "pillar of Cloud," is to stop the shelling of Israeli territory by Palestinian rockets unmanaged missiles. The main purpose of the operation was the destruction of important objects of military infrastructure of Hamas and its political, military and religious leaders. Only recently was eliminated a few people headed the radical Hamas in particular directions, the leader of the extremist wing of the "Brigades of martyr Izzeddina al-Qassam".
Israel also did not rule out a ground invasion of Gaza (if necessary), and the Government has begun the recruitment of reservists. In addition, the military command began to pull to the borders of Gaza, troops and armored vehicles that would be further evidence of the seriousness of the intentions of the Israelis. The Israeli leadership there are also political reasons for launching a military operation.
First, the succeeding in January 2013 and worked in the Knesset -
Parliamentary elections the State Israel. War could bring serious political dividends to all three major Israeli parties, inter alia, to add votes to Netanyahu and Lieberman.
Secondly, on November 29, 2012, at the request of the Palestinian National Authority's vote at the UN about becoming an observer State in the General Assembly.
It would allow Palestinians to bring an action against the State of Israel in international courts.The third objective reason is the preparation by the Government of Israel fighting against Iran. To attack targets in Iran and avoid possible response from both sides, from Iran and from Hamas,
the Israeli Government provoked Hamas to attack now that has spent their entire military potential that cannot be quickly restored.
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In this case it is easy to catch the lie. For starters, Netanyahu has been eager for a while to start a war on Iran, so it was more or less expected that Israel would try to link the attack on Gaza (or anything for the matter) to Iran. Second, it does not make sense for Iran to give Israel and the US an excuse to bomb them, as that would be remarkably suicidal.
But lets look at the Fajar-5 (or Fajr-5) rockets. According to wikipedia these are the specifications: Are we supposed to believe that rockets which are more than 6 meters in length and which require a 10.45 meter launcher, and weighing some 16,000 kg (including the system), have been smuggled into Gaza through the tunnels? Gaza is under seige and under constant Israeli surveillance. How big do you imagine smuggling tunnels to be, and how easy do you think it is to carry supplies through them? Even if the rockets were dismantled, how many of them do you think could be succesfully delivered, reassembled and launched, and how much manpower and time would that require?
If you ask us, we would be surprised if they got one rocket operational after a year of taking a couple of screws at a time, and very lucky if it actually flew. It is interesting that the supposed Fajr-5 rockets launched to Tel Aviv either fell on the sea, were shot down by the Iron Dome, or hit some unspecified street without confirmed damages - depending on which version of the story you got.