6/6/2011
Israel to start big war games next Thurs. on multi-front war
GAZA, Israel will embark next Thursday on one of its biggest war games since many years in order to test its military preparedness for a war on many fronts.
Isreali forces will resort in this military drills to a simulation system of rockets falling on Israeli cities and residential compounds.
Israel dubbed the current war games, which will take five days, "Turning Point 5", while various branches of its armed forces, state bodies, security apparatuses, and more than eighty local departments in which seventy percent of Israelis live are participating in such drills.
Further, the drills will be a test for the preparedness of the Israeli home front to tackle the fall of unconventional rockets across the country, and to gauge the possible damage to the infrastructure, and how to devise various scenarios in which infrastructures intranet and telecommunications network face an electronic assault.
The drills also include a training to counter a Iranian-Lebanese-Syrian joint blast including a rocket firing from the Lebanese Hezbolllah and Gaza, along with taking into account a great possibility of being attacked by chemical and gaseous warheads.
In the same vein, Matan Vilani, Israeli Home Front Defense Minister, said that thousands of missiles are expected to hit Israel in the event of any future war against the Arabs.
"In this possible war, power plants, infrastructure, and economic installations will be targeted, besides Tel Aviv undergoing a possible intensive blast," Hebrew media outlets quoted Vilani as saying this evening.
Vilani estimated the probable damages that may happen to the energy industry at USD hundreds of millions, describing Israeli natural gas prospecting sites off coast as, "the fluid waist of Israel." "Arabs cannot defeat Israel at the battlefield, so they make preparations to strike it at depth via rockets," Vilani elaborated.
A new impression is reigning supreme now in the country following the power changes that some Arab countries now see signaling a problematic situation of a change in the balance of power with peoples of the region drifting toward a more antagonistic stance toward Israel.
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