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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Jonathan Marcus, “Israeli New Missile Defense in Action”, BBC Online, 8 3)(#4*$' 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13013322, )(<.A/., 3)(*4#$% 2011. 2 Maj. Gen. (Res.) Yitzhak Ben Israel, “The Hizbullah Rocket War July 12th – August 14th, The Land Battle,” )/($'.*/., .2$ 32$ Tel Aviv Workshop for Science, Technology and Defense µ9 L7µ/ “The Land Battle in the Age of Technology,” .2$ Uzi Rubin, The Rocket Campaign Against Israel during the 2006 Lebanon War, The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (Ramat Gan: The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, 2007), 5. 12$ +#/+*02'$: http://www.biu.ac.il/Besa/MSPS71.pdf ()(<.A/., 3)(*4#$% 2011). 3 5.(/,4#6< P)$'(>9*$ &EF29(#0G6, The Second Lebanon War (2006), 2006, http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Terrorism+from+Lebanon-+Hizbullah/Hizbullah+attack+in+northern+Israel+and+Israels+response+12-Jul-2006.htm (accessed 3)(*4#$% 2011). 4 Ibid. 5 Ibid. 6 Ibid. 7 Embassy of Israel Backgrounder, “Israel’s War with Hezbollah: Facts and Figures,” 15 August 2006 .2$ William M. Arkin, Divining Victory: Airpower in the 2006 Israel - Hezbollah War (Maxwell AFB: Air University Press, 2007), 60.

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