ISRAHELL TO LAUNCH MASSIVE MULTI-FRONT WAR GAMES ON THURSDAY http://www.namnewsnetwork.org/v2/read.php?id=160087

Israel will embark on Thursday one of its biggest war games in many years in order to test its military preparedness for a war on many fronts. The Isreali forces will resort to a simulation system of rockets falling on Israeli cities and residential compounds. Israel dubbed the five-day war games "Turning Point 5". Various branches of its armed forces, state bodies, security apparatus and more than 80 local departments where 70 per cent of Israelis live will participate in the military drills. 

The drills will also be a test of the preparedness of the Israeli home front to tackle unconventional rockets falling across the country and to gauge the possible damage to the infrastructure and how to devise various scenario in which the infrastructure, intranet and telecommunications network face an electronic assault. The drills also include training to counter a Iranian-Lebanese-Syrian joint blast including rocket firing by the Lebanese Hezbolllah and from Gaza, along with taking into account a great possibility of being attacked by chemical and gaseous warheads. 

Matan Vilani, Israeli Home Front Defence Minister, said that thousands of missiles are expected to hit Israel in the event of any future war against the Arabs. "In this possible war, power plants, infrastructure, and economic installations will be targeted besides Tel Aviv undergoing a possible intensive blast," the Hebrew media outlets quoted Vilani as saying Monday. Vilani estimated the probable damage that may happen to the energy industry at hundreds of millions of dollars, describing Israeli natural gas prospecting sites off the coast as "the fluid waist of Israel". 

"Arabs cannot defeat Israel at the battlefield, so they make preparations to strike it at depth via rockets," Vilani said. A new impression is reigning supreme now in the country following the power changes that some Arab countries are experiencing, signalling a problematic situation of a change in the balance of power with people of the region drifting to a more antagonistic stance towards Israel.