GAZA Rockets Put Israel Nuke Plant In Battle Zone

Just saw this story...interesting

Interesting.

5 stars and a bump.

The rockets only go for mile or two. Israel should just clear that area of people and wait for another cease fire.

and so more begins.............

[link to www.timesonline.co.uk]

Gaza rockets put Israel’s nuclear plant in battle zone
Growing concern over Hamas’s new arsenal

There were growing fears in Israel last night that Hamas missiles could threaten its top-secret nuclear facility at Dimona.

Rocket attacks from Gaza have forced Israelis to flee in ever greater numbers and military chiefs have been shaken by the size and sophistication of the militant group’s arsenal.

In Beersheba, until a few days ago a sleepy desert town in southern Israel, there is little sign of the 186,000 inhabitants. Schools are closed and the streets of shuttered shops echo with the howl of sirens warning of incoming rockets.

Israeli planes, meanwhile, began a new stage yesterday in their offensive on Gaza, killing Nizar Rayyan, a senior Hamas official. The one-tonne bomb in Jabaliya is also understood to have killed two of his four wives and four of his twelve children. More than 400 Palestinians have been killed in the six days of Israeli attacks.

Despite a diplomatic mission by Tzipi Livni, the Israeli Foreign Minister, to Paris, the Israeli army continued to muster thousands of troops and scores of tanks along Gaza’s border for a possible ground offensive. Israel’s airstrikes are designed to blunt Hamas’s capacity to fire its new Grad missiles deep into its territory. The weapons are smuggled in through tunnels and by sea, replacing homemade Qassam rockets.

Israeli officials say that Hamas has also acquired dozens of Iranian-made Fajr-3 missiles with an even longer range. Many fear that as the group acquires ever more sophisticated weaponry it is only a matter of time before the nuclear installation at Dimona, 20 miles east of Beersheba, falls within its sights. Dimona houses Israel’s only nuclear reactor and is believed to be where it stores warheads for its nuclear missiles.

Israel’s worst nightmare is that soon all its cities will be within range either of the Hezbollah Katyushas arrayed on the Lebanese border to the north or the increasingly sophisticated missiles stockpiled by Hamas to the south. Both groups have links to Israel’s archenemy Iran.

Israel has said that its aim is to smash Hamas’s rocket-firing capability but also to topple the hardline Islamist regime that seized power in the Gaza Strip last year after bloody street battles with its secular rivals Fatah. Until that goal is achieved, many in Beersheba are packing their bags and heading for Tel Aviv or Eilat.

“Maybe 30 or 40 per cent of people have left the city,” said Ron Shukron, 26, running one of the few grocery shops still open. As he spoke a siren echoed through the empty streets. With only 15 seconds to take cover, he stepped under a reinforced support beam in the ceiling. Seconds later came the dull thud of a rocket exploding on the edge of town.

They will use the bombs before a "rockets" destroy all the bombs.

January 2, 2009

Gaza rockets put Israel’s nuclear plant in battle zone
Growing concern over Hamas’s new arsenal
James Hider in Beersheba

[link to www.timesonline.co.uk]

There were growing fears in Israel last night that Hamas missiles could threaten its top-secret nuclear facility at Dimona.

Rocket attacks from Gaza have forced Israelis to flee in ever greater numbers and military chiefs have been shaken by the size and sophistication of the militant group’s arsenal.

In Beersheba, until a few days ago a sleepy desert town in southern Israel, there is little sign of the 186,000 inhabitants. Schools are closed and the streets of shuttered shops echo with the howl of sirens warning of incoming rockets.

Israeli planes, meanwhile, began a new stage yesterday in their offensive on Gaza, killing Nizar Rayyan, a senior Hamas official. The one-tonne bomb in Jabaliya is also understood to have killed two of his four wives and four of his twelve children. More than 400 Palestinians have been killed in the six days of Israeli attacks.

Despite a diplomatic mission by Tzipi Livni, the Israeli Foreign Minister, to Paris, the Israeli army continued to muster thousands of troops and scores of tanks along Gaza’s border for a possible ground offensive. Israel’s airstrikes are designed to blunt Hamas’s capacity to fire its new Grad missiles deep into its territory. The weapons are smuggled in through tunnels and by sea, replacing homemade Qassam rockets.

Israeli officials say that Hamas has also acquired dozens of Iranian-made Fajr-3 missiles with an even longer range. Many fear that as the group acquires ever more sophisticated weaponry it is only a matter of time before the nuclear installation at Dimona, 20 miles east of Beersheba, falls within its sights. Dimona houses Israel’s only nuclear reactor and is believed to be where it stores warheads for its nuclear missiles.

Israel’s worst nightmare is that soon all its cities will be within range either of the Hezbollah Katyushas arrayed on the Lebanese border to the north or the increasingly sophisticated missiles stockpiled by Hamas to the south. Both groups have links to Israel’s archenemy Iran.

Israel has said that its aim is to smash Hamas’s rocket-firing capability but also to topple the hardline Islamist regime that seized power in the Gaza Strip last year after bloody street battles with its secular rivals Fatah. Until that goal is achieved, many in Beersheba are packing their bags and heading for Tel Aviv or Eilat.

“Maybe 30 or 40 per cent of people have left the city,” said Ron Shukron, 26, running one of the few grocery shops still open. As he spoke a siren echoed through the empty streets. With only 15 seconds to take cover, he stepped under a reinforced support beam in the ceiling. Seconds later came the dull thud of a rocket exploding on the edge of town.

Israeli officials this Israeli officials that, sissy no names.
The rocket used up till now go a mile or two.

This it not a news item, it's a wish front. The for the next lie; "we need to use "the bomb" NOW".

Put a gun to the Palestinian prisoner and wait for some one to try and save them, like Iran.

I think the first nut group in the world that goes after a Nuke Plant...


well let me say the world will go after them..


A Nuke Plant is out of bounds......I do not care where it is in the world.....it is out of bounds..


it not only affects the people that live around it ...it will affect nations around it..

"top-secret nuke facility". ok, if it's so secret, why is it being talked about in the news? why tell Hamas where it is?

You know, I've just got a really bad feeling this Gaza War is going to spread. Yes, I know we always talk about World War 3, war with Iran, Middle East wars and whatnot, but I've just got a bad feeling, a sinking feeling, that we really are - geopolitically and economically - on the brink of catastrophe. The 20th century was a bloodbath.

Mankind can do so much - we're capable of so much more than this. Look at all the amazing technological advancements during the aforementioned 100 years. We can do anything when we set our minds to it. Anything. The universe is our oyster.

We're going to throw it all away.

Israel attack on Iran is also a problem..

if the fall out goes china way.....all hell will break out

No the world didn't go after them

1981: Israel bombs Baghdad nuclear reactor
[link to news.bbc.co.uk]

uh....


The 70-megawatt uranium-powered reactor was near completion but had not been stocked with nuclear fuel so there was no danger of a leak, according to sources in the French atomic industry.

try again please...

well said

So why does Israel bomb Iranian nuclear facilities?

Well as of the end of this month, Iran's reactors (which hosts teams of Russian scientists) will be "hot" (active) meaning that if Israel does decide to attack them, the radiation/fallout would be regional, and Israel would have committed national suicide by making that decision.

At tops, Israel has about 15 days to strike those reactors. But if they do, it will be at their final peril.

fox new headline now...



pin?

No, really. He's right.

Zzz.

those nuke reactors are usually..? so well constructed.. that even a direct hit would only scratch the paintwork.. nothing to worry about. The real concern is if a large earthquake hits the region.. then.. there will be problems!
An earthquake IS going to hit the region sooner or later.

The Israelis would be better off giving Hamas the advanced technology to fire their rockets with precsision.. so that they can fire at political & military targets.. then they won't have innocent civilians in their sights.. then everyone will be happy.. well.. as happy as can be under the circumstnaces. I suppose the Israelis are itching to use nukes on Palestine & Lebanon.. but the radiation fall-out will be the major reason putting them off detonating one. Even the mad islamic mullahs in Palestine & Lebanon are not that.. incredibly stupid enough to use nukes either.. as they know the radiation fall-out would make their beards fall off. The Americans would be nasty enough to detonate nukes in the region.. as Americans litterally do not give a shit about the consequences of their actions.

anyone with a hand in this game knows very well of israels nuclear capabilities, nor is it hard to find, no one is giving away any secrets

they possess 300-400 nuclear weapons, which they will not admit too, but everyone knows, especially france and the usa, we both made it happen

and like another said, these rockets will do nothing to a reactor, they can with stand a direct hit from a 747

but it has a good fear factor and sells newspapers