IDF Rehearsing for Nightmare Scenario: 4,000 Killed in Days
IDF Rehearsing for Nightmare Scenario: 4,000 Killed in Days, Israel National News, Gil Ronen, June 7, 2015
Security forces are currently rehearsing and preparing for a scenario in which Israel’s enemies launch a “carpet” missile attack that Iron Dome will be unable to counter, due to the sheer number of missiles involved, Arutz Sheva has learned from knowledgeable sources that wish to remain anonymous.
In this scenario, up to 4,000 Israelis will be killed in the first days of the attack, which could happen as early as this summer.
“Iran is seeking to cover Israel with intense fire,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned in a special briefing for journalists at the week’s end.
“In Lebanon, the Iranians are inserting the most advanced weapons in the world, and strengthening Hezbollah, so that it can hit any spot in Israel,” Netanyahu was quoted as saying in the daily Makor Rishon. “They are trying to build a second front in the Golan, and of course, in Gaza.”
‘Earth-shaking shock’
Former prime minister and defense minister Ehud Barak also sounded dire warnings last week, regarding Hezbollah’s ability to deal a heavy blow to Israel, and Israel’s unpreparedness for this.
“Our rival is serious, and we have no room for smugness on any front,” he said. “We must not be smug and take our superiority as something that is self-evident and supposedly God-given. Superiority is the result of serious work. We have not really dealt with 100,000 rockets, and we have not started to deal with the matter of their accuracy. When the rockets are accurate, it is not more of the same thing. It is something completely different.”
“The country has no choice but to reach conclusions,” Barak warned. “One cannot deal with this challenge by deploying in all of the places, from which [anti-missile] missiles can be fired. These things are very expensive: Iron Dome and Magic Wand, Arrow and Super-Arrow are expensive projects.
“One cannot exaggerate the importance of safeguarding security,” he added, “and one cannot exaggerate the earth-shaking shock that can take place when it turns out that we did not prepare and we did not understand the urgency and practicality of challenges of this sort, and the need to translate clear thought to conclusions, and we will find ourselves [in a situation where] citizens suddenly discover that one cannot walk slowly and lackadaisically to the bomb shelters, knowing that nothing can happen, as we did in during Operation Protective Edge. These things must be done now, we must not wait.”
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WarSclerotic 
June 8, 2015 at 2:57 AM
What Neville Netanyahu wrought. Still sound like things will be ok Joe?
June 8, 2015 at 10:36 PM
“The problem with these platitudes, say debkafile’s military analysts, is that they represent a repeat of the mistake Israel made on its northern front, by letting the Hizballah terrorists pile up a huge arsenal of up to 100,000 rockets and missiles, all pointing one way – south.” Blame no one but Neville Netanyahu.
Future historians will be calling this Netanyahu’s greatest blunder!!!
It is written.
June 9, 2015 at 2:03 AM
The best defense is to attack ! See 67 and 73 . What should have be done long ago must be done now quickly – not waiting for all those terror-states and terror-organisations to set up another 100’000 Missiles on Israels borders….What is the israeli government waiting for ? A green light from Mr BHO ? For the UN to give Israel a green light ? C’mon – do what has to be done. Or is the plan to take this massive hit, so that afterwards the world will finally agree that Israel is right and its enemies are wrong ? You may as well wait
for the cat stopping to kill birds…..it will never happen, so dont wait, do fast what has to be done !
June 9, 2015 at 4:01 AM
Neville Netanyahu did not have the stomach for it when it was easy, he’ll not have the stomach for it now that it’s hard. Neville Netanyahu gutless wonder has put lots of Israeli lives in peril.
It is written.