Reply #31: FYI just use google earth [View All]

[tocqueville]

1) even if newer models of Katjushas can have a MAXIMUM range of 20 km, a Katjusha (BM 21) fired from Tyre would fall INSIDE Lebanon, or barely reach the border. Firing a Katjusha north of the Litani/Tyre is meaningless. The normal range is 16 km.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/bm-21.htm

Draw a 20 km line westwards from the air base at Kyriat Shmona and look where you end up. Besides that I imagine the IDF doesn't have ballistic experts and radar assessment of projectiles.

2) it doesn't have to be Katjushas but Quassams

Shimon Peres, a prominent figure in the Israeli Left, claimed that Israel can afford to ignore Qassam fire <4>. "This hysteria over the Qassams must end," he told journalists at the Knesset. "We're just adding to the hysteria. What happened? Kiryat Shmona was shelled for years. What, there weren't missiles?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassam_Rocket

2) I have lived half of my life in the Mediterranean area and know exactly how an orchard looks like. And I have a training in satellite picture interpretation. A little googling shows that most of the fields in the region are outside the villages and not inside in a typical mediterranean pattern.