Saturday December 4, 2010

I've Been Thinking:

The fire in Israel has been devastating. The damage to nature, property, industry and the Israeli people is still growing. Property damage caused by these flames is far worse than damage that has been caused by war.

1,500,000 tress have been burnt.
20,000 dunams (5,000 acres) of land has been destroyed.
15,000 people have been evacuated.
And 41 people have been killed.

Many FOI (friends of Israel) have stepped up with offers of help. Cyprus and Greece and even Turkey sent over materials, equipment and teams.

The hope is that the entire fire will be contained by Saturday night. The reality is that no one anticipated such a catastrophe. There were no emergency measures in place with which to begin to respond to a fire as destructive as this.

This is deeply troubling on many levels.
For years we have known that one of the standard terror plots against Israel was to attempt to set fire to large amounts of land, specifically around Haifa.

Why were there no safety plans in place?
The prime minister must now answer that question.

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