The Color Red (Tzeva
Adom) incoming-rocket warning
system sounded its frightening wail yet again this morning (Friday) between 6
and 7, followed soon after by a report that a rocket had crashed into the Shaar Hanegev region
of southern Israel.
At this stage, it appears, without our being certain, that this
attack on civilian targets, like so many before it, resulted in the sowing of
fear and panic without, thankfully, causing property damage or human injury or
worse. This is of course small comfort to the 6,000 residents of the area
impacted this morning who need to cope not only with the ongoing and
unpredictable physical threats but with the general outside apathy that
accompanies the thousands (!) of such rocket firings that have been their lot
in the past years.
That's the situation in the south. In the north, the authorities
appear to be engaged again in a war of words with the notoriously deaf
terrorists sitting just across our border with Lebanon. JPost refers to a hitherto-unreported
incident last week in which a small force
of soldiers from the IDF's Paratroop Brigade were patrolling the border and
spotted Lebanese troops positioned a meters 20 meters away on the other side of
the fence. The Lebanese were aiming their weapons, including a rocket-propelled
grenade, at them. An Arabic-speaking IDF soldier heard the Lebanese commander
dividing up targets for his men. The Israeli soldiers called for backup that rapidly
arrived on the scene and the Lebanese withdrew, avoiding an unwanted
escalation.
Brig.-Gen. Herzi Halevy, who headed the
Paratroop Brigade during Operation Cast Lead in 2009, is quoted in today's Jerusalem Post warning
the terrorists in Lebanon that Israel will
take immediate air and ground action in a future war that, in his words, would
cause “extensive damage, not as a punishment but rather to hit the enemy where
it is... The damage will be far greater [in Lebanon] than the Second
Lebanon War”.
Meanwhile the rockets in the south keep coming. Perhaps the
terrorists don't read our newspapers.
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