“What’s this fear that’s struck us suddenly? They’ll kill Jews? Today?” — Shimon Peres
No, those rockets are to send origami floating peacefully in the Israeli skies.
“‘170,000 Rockets Aimed at Israel,'” by Tova Dvorin for Israel National News, January 29:
Israel’s Chief of Military Intelligence, Major General Aviv Kohavi, painted a clear and graphic picture of what Israel faces on a daily basis on Wednesday: a constant barrage of terrorist threats.
“Israel is surrounded by 360 degrees of actual enemies,” Kohavi stated, in a speech at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) quoted by Walla!.
“We call this period in time the “Era of Fire”, in light of the amount of missiles and rockets we face as a constant threat. There are about 170,000 rockets and missiles that threaten Israel,” Kochavi said.
“The fighting in Syria, as well as operation ‘Pillar of Defense’, has resulted in a slight decrease. However, it will increase again,” he added. “For the first time the enemy now has the ability to hit Israeli cities hard.”
Kohavi issued a new term to describe Israel’s enemies: “paramilitary terrorist groups.”
“We cannot continue to call Hezbollah a terror group,” Kohavi maintained. “They have over 100,000 rockets and missiles, some of them advanced. The same can be said of Hamas. The line between a terror organization and a military organization continues to blur.”
“Today, Israel is threatened with warheads that contain half a ton of explosives – but also warheads that contain 900 kilograms of explosives,” Kohavi explained. “Our enemies are working on procuring weapons systems in the air and on the sea to break through our Air Force and Navy. IAF pilots can no longer move freely toward their targets and have to dodge missiles that threaten them.”
Kohavi also related to Syria, which has been caught in an all-out Islamic holy war since 2011. According to the Major General, the security threat is enormous: over 30,000 global jihad terrorists are concentrated there, and many are in training camps to bring terrorism abroad.
“Syria has become a magnet for terrorists in Europe, America, Asia and North Africa,” he noted. “The terror will not stay there, but will spill over into sleeper camps in Lebanon and Sinai and infect the entire region.”
Jihadists have been slowly crossing the border into Turkey, Kohavi stated, “where they are a threat to Europe. The distance between Syria and Turkey is not far.”
“We are talking about extremists clinging to extremist ideologies – anti-Western and anti-Modern ideologies,” he continued. “We are talking about exceptional cruelty and brutality close to our borders.”
In addition, Kohavi warned that Iran’s nuclear program remains an imminent threat. “Iran’s nuclear program continues,” he stated. “It is just waiting on Iranian leaders to decide whether or not to produce one bomb, or more.”
Kohavi does remain slightly optimistic, however, about threats closer to Israel’s borders. “The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Hamas in Gaza are under great distress right now,” he said. “This is a serious opportunity for the State of Israel.”…
Indeed. If the U.S. doesn’t bail the jihadis out.

Sovereign Man says
I suspect if an all out rocket attack was launched on Israel, the resulting counter-battery fire would put an end to the “Palestinian” struggle permanently. He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword.
Watching history unfold is simultaneously incredibly interesting and gut-churningly horrifying.
Canto28 says
I doubt it. The Israelis are just too humane IMO for their own good:
“… We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children…. ”
-Golda Meir, former Israeli Prime Minister, 1972
That’s the kind of foolish, suicidal attitude I mean. She also said
“We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.”
That will not happen. There is no stronger emotion that hate and too many Arabs excel at it.
Walter Sieruk says
No matter how many rockets the murderous Islamic groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah may sent into Israel, the State of Israel will stand. For this land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people, for God has declared so in His Word [the Bible] As in Genesis 28!3-15. 35:10-12. Deuteronomy 32:48,49. Psalm 105:7-11. 135:4. So even though the members of these two groups along with members of P.I.J. may not know it. They are wicked. They are wicked because they are striving against the Will of God. Therefore, even if all the members of these Islamic terror groups join their forces together to destroy Israel,they will fail as in lose and lose hard. For the Bible teachers in Proverbs 11:21. “Though hand join in hand the wicked shall not go unpunished.”
Moreover, such an idea of joining forces against Israel go’s as far back as to ancient times. Such a uniting of forces only results in extreme futility, at best. For in Psalm 83:25 in reads “For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against they hidden ones. They have said,Come , and let us cut them off from being a nation: that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. For they have consulted together with one consent: and they confederate against thee.” This chapter go’s on in verses 16 -18 to further explain “Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name , O Lord Let them be confounded and troubled forever; yea let them be put to shame, and perish. That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JE-HO-VAH, art the most high over all the earth.” [K.J.V.]
That is Jehovah Who is the one and only true God and not the false lunar god Allah, the god of Islam. For despite the bogus claim by the apologists for Islam that The God of the Bible and the god of Islam are the same god . Many posting including some of mine have exposed that the God of the Bible is the god of the Quran . In short the Islamic terror groups Hamas, Hezbollah P.I.J., etc. are all fated to fail because the are striving against Jehovah the God of the Bible.
Jackie says
Amen!! You are exactly right!
Sovereign Man says
Sorry Walter, but prayer and belief do not save one from death. It is only the actions of the people of Israel that allow them to exist (and the total disorganized disaster that is muslim society, who’s military prowess is pathetic in the face of logical men).
They have varying sources for their strength, from the Torah, to self-preservation instinct, to a rightful belief that they deserve a home on earth to call their own and live peacefully within. Not all Israelis are devout Jews. If simple Jewish identity was a guarantor of safety and a happy life, explain the holocaust.
Now, the reality of modern weaponry and weapons of mass-destruction are a threat that Israel has never faced before, and more than ever they need the solidarity of the West – just as traitorous regimes such as the Obama administration make deals with their murderous enemies. So maybe you are right, and only God can help Israel now. Lets hope He does a better job than 75 years ago.
harbidoll says
the praying is for guidance, wisdom. as well as devine intervention which wins wars. I don’t think they are waiting for the rockets to start falling to do something. the planning starts Way before any rockets lift off.it will never get to that point. G W
No1 says
There’s not much to fear. Whatever Hamas has in some warehouse, to attempt to use these weapons would only result in another Operation Cast Lead. Obviously it’s impossible for Hamas to fire more than a few rockets at a time without opening themselves to preemptive strikes from Israel, who will detect the presence of the many launchers it would take to form a barrage.
Thomas wells says
There are other things than explosives which can be tossed it to Israel. World war I was triggered by one bullet fired by a terrorist. But of course, no group,nor splinter fraction would be insane enough to want to try and start Armageddon, would they?
pongidae rex says
WWI was caused by an international cadre of European political fools, the likes of which has not been seen again until the present era. Europeans are politically the stupidest and most self destructive people on earth. Say what you will about Muslims; they did not march an entire generation of young men into machine guns or invent a political ideology of suicidal self loathing to guide immigration and social policy.
Elliott says
” … they did not march an entire generation of young men into machine guns …”.
OH YES THEY DID!!
Don’t you remember during the Iraq-Iran war some time in the eighties I think: they used their (Muslim) children as mine-seekers; FORCED! them to walk into mine-fields to clear them for the brave soldiers.
Islam is very simply put a suicide organisation. The only trouble is, that they feel the need to take others with them.
kikorikid says
Yeah, I remember those boys. They wore a kind of kamaKAzi headband
and they were marched over mine fields. Hundreds and hundreds.
But they were promised 72 virgins and a lot of grapes and olive oil,
paradise.
Thomas Wells says
While it is true that European fools were involved in WW I, there was this group called the Ottoman Empire Muslims ,that also joined in the folly.
When a situation is assembled in a critically unstable form ;such as a huge mass of snow perched precariously on a mountain slope, a very small “trigger event”, can produce an enormously magnified runaway catastrophe engulfing a huge area.This is also true in human affairs where some demented people actively seek to cause chaos.
gravenimage says
170,000 rockets aimed at Israel”
“What’s this fear that’s struck us suddenly? They’ll kill Jews? Today?” — Shimon Peres
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Don’t forget that the foolish Shimon Peres also said that there was too much “hysteria” over Kassam rocket attacks. Good God.
More:
“We cannot continue to call Hezbollah a terror group,” Kohavi maintained. “They have over 100,000 rockets and missiles, some of them advanced. The same can be said of Hamas. The line between a terror organization and a military organization continues to blur.”
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Yes, it does—at this point, Hizb’allah is a part of the state of Lebanon, and Hamas is the elected “government” of Gaza. Israel is facing more than lone terrorist with suicide vests.
More:
“Today, Israel is threatened with warheads that contain half a ton of explosives – but also warheads that contain 900 kilograms of explosives,” Kohavi explained. “Our enemies are working on procuring weapons systems in the air and on the sea to break through our Air Force and Navy. IAF pilots can no longer move freely toward their targets and have to dodge missiles that threaten them.”
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And don’t forget Iran, which has been threatening to “wipe Israel off the map”—they may not have nukes yet, but they are probably not all that far away. And now that the US is playing footsie with the Mullahs, we seen to be farther away than ever from actually trying to stop them.
More:
Kohavi also related to Syria, which has been caught in an all-out Islamic holy war since 2011. According to the Major General, the security threat is enormous: over 30,000 global jihad terrorists are concentrated there, and many are in training camps to bring terrorism abroad.
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Kudos to Kohavi for calling a spade a spade.
“Syria has become a magnet for terrorists in Europe, America, Asia and North Africa,” he noted. “The terror will not stay there, but will spill over into sleeper camps in Lebanon and Sinai and infect the entire region.”
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Very true. There has been a lot of talk about Jihadists bring the Jihad back to the West, but the threat to Israel is also marked.
gravenimage says
Kohavi does remain slightly optimistic, however, about threats closer to Israel’s borders. “The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Hamas in Gaza are under great distress right now,” he said. “This is a serious opportunity for the State of Israel.”…
Indeed. If the U.S. doesn’t bail the jihadis out.
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And that sort of madness is not something we can count out these days—especially with Obama in the White House.
fair_dinkum says
That’s a lot of rockets.
and they take a lot of human shielding..
BexarKat says
Does it matter? 170,000 rockets or 17 million rockets? The Israelis only need one rocket, with a nuke attached and aimed at the Temple Mount. If Hezbollah/Hamas launches – who care about another intifada…as the t-shirt says (kill all the Muslims and let God sort them out).
Elliott says
BexarKat.
As a resident of Israel, I would much prefer – IF, AND ONLY IF, NECESSARY – that any nuclear missiles that Israel MIGHT possess, be aimed at Teheran (and / or Mecca).
bikeboy says
Nothing matters. If Israel, or should I say when, is attacked at that level the entire ME will no longer exist. For Islamists this is a way to god, fot the sane it is just insanity. May we all survive the madness.
gravenimage says
Bikewboy wrote:
Nothing matters. If Israel, or should I say when, is attacked at that level the entire ME will no longer exist.
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I’ve never understood why so many posters here write things like this. Israel is *not* going to wipe out the entire Middle East in revenge.
They will strike back at those who struck them, but mostly to disable the chance of their being attacked again.
Muslims dream of genocide—the civilized Jews do not.\\Israel may have the capacity to wipe out the entire Middle East, but they will not do so.
bikeboy says
When, not if this happens the ME will cease to exist. Jews will mourn, Islamists will celebrate.