The Threat From Lebanon


The terror group Hezbollah, which is financed by Iran, has amassed an arsenal of 150,000 missiles and rockets aimed at Israel.


cluding Kiryat Shmona, a city of 26,000 inhabitants. Not even during the 2006


war, which I covered for Newsmax, did Israel issue evacuation orders to resi- dents in the north, although many of them left on their own.


The United States and Is-


rael have estimated Hezbol- lah’s rocket and missile arse- nal at over 150,000. Most are unguided Zel-


zal-1 and Zelzal-2, a variant of the 1960s-era Soviet FROG artillery rocket. But they pack an enormous punch, carrying a deadly 1,300-pound high explosive warhead to targets up to 120 miles away, putting Israel’s three largest cities within range. In addition, Israeli re-


searchers believe Hezbollah can now deploy anywhere from several hundred to several thousand Iranian- supplied Fateh-110 ballistic missiles, which can deliver a 1,000-pound warhead to within 10 yards of a target up to 180 miles away. These precision-guided


missiles are “a red line for the State of Israel,” says Tal Beeri, a researcher for the Alma Research and Educa- tion Center, a think tank set up by former IDF offi cers and


Israeli military intelligence analysts. Israeli and U.S. leaders


fear that the sheer quantity of the Hezbollah arsenal could overwhelm Israel’s sophisti- cated Iron Dome and David’s Sling missile defenses, lead- ing to even greater destruc- tion than the smaller Hamas rockets fi red so far. “We don’t know if [the]


Iron Dome can hold up against that,” former Director


of National Intelligence John Ratcliff e said Oct. 22.


Terrorism With Global


Reach The Iranian regime has per- fected the art of terrorism as foreign policy since 1979. Its recorded act of terror-


ism was the assassination of Ali Akbar Tabatabai, a diplo-


The Iranian regime’s terror war against America unequivocally began on April 18, 1983, when a young Lebanese Shiite


named Imad Mughniyeh, along with his IRGC handler, Ali Reza Asgari, orchestrated the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut.


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