Whenever anything happens from Morocco to Pakistan, you can be certain someone’s going to try to tie it back to Israel. In this case, however, it seems like the concern may be valid that the Libyan War is going to make Israel’s constant bombardment of the Gaza Strip far more dangerous.
The ouster of Moammar Gadhafi led to wholesale looting of weapons depots in western Libya, and much of this military hardware has wound up on the arms black market. Unsurprisingly, Hamas and other factions within Gaza are among those keen to acquire what they can.
Which isn’t surprising, and it was reported earlier this month that Libyan weapons were showing up in the Sinai Peninsula, presumably en route to Gaza. Anti-aircraft missiles were said to be top on the list.
Now, Israeli officials say, Hamas is also keen to acquire anti-tank weapons. This makes sense too, as when Israel launches one of its random invasions it usually does send tanks. The surface to air missiles are a bigger concern for Israeli military officials, however, as this is likely to make the constant aerial bombardment of the strip potentially dangerous.
Palestinians have all the right in the world to acquire weapons to defend themselves. The US after all is supplying far mote lethal weapons to Israel, so why should the Palestinians not have weapons to retaliate against the illegal and barbaric onslaught of the Zionists.
Give weapons to the ones who want to liberate themselves from the occupation.
In the WWII all freedom lovers resisted Hitlers occupation with weapons.
Palestinians need weapons to liberate from the Nazi occupiers….
we are not talking about tens or hundereds of missile. Everybody is talking about thousands of missile. France and UK are old Imperial states. However they seem to be loosing that imperial touch! They planned their campaign so miserably to the extent that they didnt oversee what would be the fate of thousands of missiles.
The world and especially the world civilian avaition would have to shoulder the burden of this mistake
Gee what a horror. The old woman and children of Gaza being able to shot back. What a cruel world we live in. How will that hurt the Israel organ business? Will NATO come and bomb Gaza now that they finished destroying Libya? The IDF has only faced the few in Lebanon since the 1973 war. There record since have sure placed a big question mark as to how good they are compared to how good they are reported to be. The shoulder held rockets are not very good in most situations but they will be very lethal in city use. It will be interest to see the reaction when Israel loses one of the billion dollar f35 to an arab kid.
Oh, yeah. Let's all stop, drop and roll. Israel cries wolf yet again.
"The surface to air missiles are a bigger concern for Israeli military officials, however, as this is likely to make the constant aerial bombardment of the strip potentially dangerous." I really hope so.
just like in iran, oh no! they are buying/building anti aircraft weapons its a terrible threat to all the innocent people flying bombing runs against them.
well its a good thing that it will be a robot doing the bombing… but still think of all the innocent hardware!
didn’t Saddams WMDs end up in Israel? oh, I forgot, there weren’t any found in Iraq. Israel has plenty of own.