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Israel flexes military might
Published: 10 April, 2008, 05:02
Edited: 21 February, 2010, 21:22
Israel is holding its biggest ever military exercise, in a show of might against nearby rivals. The five day event includes armed forces and civil workers.
Israel fears conflicts from three different fronts – Syria and Hezbollah threat from the north, and the ongoing Hamas rockets from Gaza, pounding the country every day, from the south.
All public and governmental offices are practicing emergency procedures.
“The army arranged a building to crash. There’ll be lots of bodies under the ruins and we have to rescue them with our tools – that’s our purpose today,” explains Eyal, an Israeli soldier who is part of rescue team.
Tension is high in the region due to reports that Syria is boosting its military forces in preparation against an Israeli offensive.
The first rockets ever to hit Israel struck during the Gulf War 17 years ago.
But that was tiny compared to the more than 4,000 rockets that rained down on the country during the Second Lebanon War nearly two years ago.
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The unfortunate thing is the fact that we are trying to moralise war by telling the enemies of Israel and the west that we are coming, not fire if they were jeans,etc.They don't give us the same warning. I thnk we should warned them once, that we'll hit them at our chossing time and place and the blood of their civilian population will be on their hands. Israel should terminate its enemies once and for all ,so we could live our lives in peace. Israel does not occupy anyones land. The world forget that those lands were allways occupied by numerous invaders,the last ones were the Turks and their Islamic friends that decided to stay and claim as their land since the crusades There is no such of thing as Palestine,they have absoutely no history of leadership except of Yasser Arafat,that was simply an excuse for the Arab world to save facce face for all their loses during the conflicts with Israel