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| Israel: Ready for harder military tactics |
| 2007-11-02 |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #1 The government's three most immediate security concerns are: Its ever-simmering tensions with the densely populated Palestinian Gaza Strip and the Hamas political leadership at the country's southwestern flank border with Egypt Its top-of-the-map frontier with southern Lebanon, where the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) fought a short and sharp but less-than-satisfactory war in summer 2006 with Iran-supplied Hizbollah militants The Golan Heights frontline between Israeli and Syrian forces "We see relentless terrorist attacks from Gaza against our citizens in southern Israel and a restocked Hizbollah [with Iranian-supplied Katyusha rockets] in southern Lebanon. Yes, you could argue the threats are rising," an Israeli government official in Jerusalem told ISN Security Watch in Brussels on 22 October. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-11-02 14:49 |