Reply #47: Israel fears Hezbollah anti-aircraft missiles could spark war

[Richard01]

It's about time that someone clipped the IAF's wings.
I lived in Beirut in 1974-5. Israeli jets would come streaking in low, directly over my top floor apartment, on their way to rocket the Palestinian camps in South Beirut. The truly frightening thing was that they looserd their rockets before they passed overhead.
I also witnessed regular sonic booms over Beirut, buzzing of the new airport runway in Amman, and buzzing a Jordanian airliner over Lebanon.
A deterrent would do them good. Hizbollah should cultivate the same kind of ambiguity that Israel uses for its nuclear arsenal, and use them only on the occasion of the next Israeli invasion.
Perhaps Hamas could use some, too, to deter the next Gaza massacre.