January 4, 2012
Jerusalem.
In one of the most blacked-out stories in America right now, the
US military is preparing to send thousands of US troops, along with US Naval
anti-missile ships and accompanying support personnel, to Israel.
It took forever to find a second source for confirmation of this
story and both relatively mainstream media outlets are in Israel.
With one source saying the military deployment and corresponding
exercises are to occur in January, the source providing most of the details
suggests it will occur later this spring.
Calling it not just an
“exercise”, but a “deployment”, the Jerusalem Post quotes US Lt.-Gen
Frank Gorenc, Commander of the US Third Air Force based in Germany. The US
Commander visited Israel two weeks ago to confirm details for “the deployment
of several thousand American soldiers to Israel.”
In an effort to respond
to recent Iranian threats and counter-threats, Israel announced the largest
ever missile defense exercise in its history. Now, it’s reported that the US
military, including the US Navy, will be stationed throughout Israel, also
taking part.
Also confirming the
upcoming US-Israeli military missile exercises is JTA.org ~
‘global news service of the Jewish people’. In their account, they report,
‘Last week, plans for Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. Joint
Chiefs of Staff, to visit Israel in January were leaked to Israeli media; his
visit likely will coincide with the largest-ever joint U.S.-Israel anti-missile
exercise’.
While American troops
will be stationed in Israel for an unspecified amount of time, Israeli military
personnel will be added to EUCOM in Germany. EUCOM stands for United States
European Command.
In preparation for
anticipated Iranian missile attacks upon Israel, the US is reportedly bringing
its THAAD, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, and ship-based Aegis ballistic
missile systems to Israel. The US forces will join Israeli missile defense
systems like the Patriot and Arrow.
The deployment comes with
“the ultimate goal of establishing joint task forces in the event of a
large-scale conflict in the Middle East”.
The Jerusalem Post
reports that US Lt.-Gen Frank Gorenc was in Israel meeting with his Israeli
counterpart, Brig.-Gen Doron Gavish, commander of the Air Defense Division.
While there, the US General visited one of Israel’s three ‘Iron Dome’
anti-missile outposts.
The Israeli Air Force has
announced plans to deploy a fourth Iron Dome system in the coming months.
Additional spending increases in the Jewish state will guarantee the
manufacture and deployment of three more Iron Dome systems by the end of 2012.
The Israelis are hoping
to eventually have at least a dozen of the anti-missile systems deployed along
its northern and southern borders.
In a show of escalated
tensions in the region, Iran test fired two long range missiles today. One,
called the Qadar, is a powerful sea-to-shore missile. The other was an advanced
surface-to-surface missile called the Nour. According to Iranian state news,
the Nour is an ‘advanced radar-evading, target-seeking, guided and controlled
missile’.
Additionally, the Iranian
military reportedly test-fired numerous other short, medium and long-range
missiles. Yesterday, Iranian authorities reported that they test-fired the
medium-range, surface-to-air, radar-evading Mehrab missile. Today is supposed
to be the final day of Iranian naval drills in the Straits of Hormuz.
Iran recently made global
headlines when it threatened to blockade the Straits of Hormuz if Europe and
the US went ahead with their boycott of Iranian oil and the country’s central
bank.
One-quarter of the
world’s oil passes through that waterway every day. President Obama has
announced that a closure of the Straits was unacceptable and vowed to take
whatever measures are necessary to keep the vital shipping lane open.
In response to the
Iranian missile tests this weekend, French authorities were the first to
respond, calling it a, “very bad signal to the international community.”We want
to underline that the development by Iran of a missile program is a source of
great concern to the international community,”the French Foreign Ministry said
in a written statement. Israeli officials suggested the flamboyant Iranian
military drills this weekend were a sign that international sanctions on the
country were taking a heavy toll and that any additional boycotts, on its banks
or oil industry, would be crippling.
Israeli Defense Minister
Ehud Barak said the large missile tests showed, “the dire straits of Iran in
light of the tightening sanctions around her, including the considerations in
the last few days regarding the sanctions of exporting petroleum as well as the
possibility of sanctions against the Iranian Central Bank.”
While the chances of Iran
going through with its threat of closing the Straits of Hormuz are slim, the
deployment of thousands of US troops and naval ships to Israel shows the US
isn’t taking any chances.
will those jews one day strop from making the world suffer ?
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