How will Israel respond to the bombardment of Haifa?
The hundreds of ongoing rocket attacks from Lebanon by Hezbullah against Haifa and Israel’s north, in which a number of civilians have been killed and scores wounded, should dispel once and for all any popular myth depicting Hezbullah as an ill-equipped guerrilla force. As the proxy of Iran created in the 1980s to carry out that country’s hostile acts toward Israel – in disregard and violation of Lebanese sovereignty – Hezbullah has received massive shipments of state-of-the-art weaponry from Teheran’s arsenal, transshipped through Syria. A senior Iranian army officer stated Sunday to the Arabic-language newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat that the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guard set up dozens of advanced rocket and missile bases in the Lebanon Valley and along the border with Israel. Between 1992 and 2005 Hezbullah received some 11,500 short to medium range missiles and rockets. The official also said Hezbullah is in possession of four types of advanced ground-to-ground missiles: Fajr
