Another BIG sign Israel is planning a war.
'Israel to ask for military facility in Cyprus'
PM could make request during Cyprus visit; Cypriot media says talks at "exploratory stage" regarding use of Paphos base.
Israel will ask Cyprus to station Israel Air Force fighter jets at a military facility on the island, Cyprus media reported Tuesday.
According to the reports, Israel will make the request during Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to Cyprus later this month.
According to the report in the Famagusta Gazette, the talks are currently at an “exploratory stage” regarding the possibility of using the Andrea
Paendreou airbase in Paphos, in southwestern Cyprus. The base reportedly used to host Greek F-16s.
Me thinks it's to have another ``aircrafts launch point`` not in Israel for when the retaliatory strike against Israel happens when war against Iran
begins.
Israel is not convinced that Hezbollah/Iran/Syria/Hamas won't be able to pound their airfields enough to make sure Israel have a hard time putting
lots of planes in the sky... and without total air superiority, you don't get far, even their troops on the ground could be in trouble because of
that.
Also : no or reduced air capability : unable to destroy Hezbollah missiles.
Not to mention if Egypt, which has hundreds of F-16s and more than a thousands Abrams tanks were to join the fight... Then Israel would be in very big
trouble.
If the worst case scenario were to happen right now, Israel would probably lose or be forced to use nukes... and they know it. So they are trying to
change the game.
edit on 7-2-2012 by Vitchilo because: (no reason given)
