Don't be so hasty to call people liars when you don't follow the news:
Hizbullah hits Israel's INS Hanit with anti-ship missile
By Alon Ben-David JDW Correspondent
on the Israeli-Lebanese border
Israel's INS Hanit, a Eilat (Sa'ar 5)-class missile corvette, was struck on 14 July by an Iranian-made C-802 Noor (Tondar) radar-guided anti-ship missile, fired by Hizbullah from Beirut.
"We were not aware that Hizbullah possessed this kind of missile," said Rear Admiral Noam Faig, Israel Navy (IN) head of operations, told Jane's.
"We are familiar with that missile from other areas but assumed that the threat was not present in Lebanon."
The Noor, based on the Chinese C-802, was reported to have a 200 km range during manoeuvres conducted by the Iranian Navy in April 2005.
An initial debrief of the incident suggested that the Hanit was sailing without fully activating its Barak-point defence system.
For other, undisclosed reasons, the Hanit's electronic countermeasures and electronic support measures, as well as the Vulcan Phalanx close-in weapon system failed to block or intercept the missile.
"It's a very painful blow to the IN," admitted an IN source, "but it could have been worse if they had hit another section of the ship."
janes.com
Besides, to get the two kidnapped soldiers back, did Israel have to go and bomb civilians in Lebanon. Is it not all about two soldiers!!!!
No, it's not just about two soldiers anymore. It's about Nasrallah's confidence that Israel was, as he called it, "a nation of spiderwebs" that he could attack with impunity; it's about the 13,000 rockets and the Iranian backed army that he assembled that answers to Tehran and not Beirut; it's about whether using civilians as human shields for your ammo dumps & rocket launchers should work to shield you from reprisals when you attack another country. |
