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Gaza rockets put Israel’s nuclear plant in battle zone
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 ...
AN OCCUPIED NATION AND A THREATENED ONE.
AN OCCUPIED NATION AND A THREATENED ONE.
prospect.org — This blog is on a light schedule today and tomorrow due to various New Years related program... activities, but it's worth quickly responding to Jonathan Chait's post on Israel and Palestine. Chait makes a common claim, which is that all analysis of the ... (more) AN OCCUPIED NATION AND A THREATENED ONE.
Israel kills top Hamas figure, escalating campaign - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israel dropped a one-ton bomb on the home of a Hamas strongman Thursday,... killing him along with two wives and four children in the first attack on the top leadership of Gaza's rulers. As the aerial bombardment escalated, the army ... (more) Israel kills top Hamas figure, escalating campaign - ...
Israel can't bomb its way to peace - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com — It's a new year in an old and bloody world. In Israel, politicians jockeying for power have... launched the most lethal military assault on Palestinian territory in decades. Israel has justified its bombardment of Gaza on the grounds that Hamas broke a ... (more) Israel can't bomb its way to peace - Los Angeles Times
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Breaking: Islamist Rockets Can Now Reach Israeli Nuke Facilities
Gateway Pundit — ... hit Beersheba with rocket fire from Gaza reaching deeper into Israel than ever before. Beersheba, a city of 186,000, is 40 kilometers from the Gaza Strip and was thought to be out of reach from rocket fire! This was a frightening development in the Islamist war against Israel. What this means is that the Islamic radicals have the ability to reach Beersheba and potentially the town of Dimona and the Israeli nuclear facilities. The Times Online reported, via Drudge: ...

Gaza rockets put Israel’s nuclear plant in battle zone
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... with the howl of sirens warning of incoming rockets. --snip-- 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 nuclear warheads are stored. Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east...

Hamas “Aiming” To “Nuke” Israel
Pat Dollard | Young AmericansTimes Online: Gaza rockets put Israel’s nuclear plant in battle zone Growing concern over Hamas’s new arsenal by James Hider 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, ...

Gaza rockets put Israel’s nuclear plant in battle zone
Jihad Watch — ... Things are heating up. "Gaza rockets put Israel’s nuclear plant in battle zone," by James Hider in the Times, January 2 (thanks to Sr. Soph): ...

Dimona nuke plant in range?
Israel Matzav — ... in range. There's a more strategic location that's within 60 kilometers of Gaza: Dimona, home of Israel's purported nuclear power plant (Hat Tip: ...

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Theo Spark — ... slips down wealth league table, falling below Italy and France. If Brown stays in charge we will soon be below Zimbabwe. Snorkeller shoots himself in groin with speargun. Bet that hurt! Hardline Hamas leader killed in air strike on Gaza home. He is not so effing hard now!! The rest of the Hamas leadership will no doubt run away to the safety of Lebanon or Damascus if they haven't already. Gaza rockets put Israel’s nuclear plant in battle zone. Not if Israel pushes Hamas into the sea it won't. ...

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Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator — Welcome back ... While Hamas rockets threaten an Israeli nuclear power plant , and the Russians continue to play political games with their neighbors , and the Democratic led congress tries to push through in one week a $1-trillion dollar stimulus package that no one has had a chance to read in its entirety yet, a familiar song begins to play in my head. Welcome back, Your dreams were your ticket out. Welcome back, To that same old place that you laughed about. Well the names have all changed since you hung around, But those dreams have remained and they're ...

Why Israel Must Stop The Rocket Attacks
Rhymes With Right — Let's put this into perspective -- these are the areas of Israel that the Terrorstinians can now attack from Gaza. That range, 40 km, is the equivalent about 25 miles -- and some 30-40% of Israel's population lives within the attack zone, which is within the internationally-recognized pre-1967 borders of Israel. beershebamap.jpg And the word is that Hamas may have bought missiles from Iran that give the Terrorstinians the possibility of targeting even more civilians in the rest of Israel. supportisrael.jpg

The Gaza Ground Assault Rages - But Will it Work?
Pajamas Media — ... the result of months of careful planning and involving thousands of sorties, has indeed given Hamas a drubbing with command and control centers, rocket silos, smuggling tunnels, and top leaders being hit. The trouble is that it hasn’t stopped the rocket fire; the Hamas that was supposed to say “This is awful, we better stop” turned out to have been imaginary. Instead the rocket fire has only expanded to include even the major southern city of Beersheba, with fears that it could reach 20 miles further east to Israel’s top-secret nuclear plant in the town of Dimona. Despite the ...

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