Friday, November 18, 2005
The Guardian seems to think it's pretty large. In an article about the Israeli use of sonic booms to annoy people in Gaza (the article, true to form, doesn't give much space for the Israeli reasoning, but to be honest it sounds like a fairly dubious practice), Palestinians hit by sonic boom air raids, the paper notes:
The military was forced to apologise after one sonic boom was unintentionally heard hundreds of kilometres inside Israel last week. Maariv newspaper described it as sounding "like a heavy bombardment. The noise that shook the Israeli skies was frightening. Thousands of citizens leapt in panic from their beds, and many of them placed worried calls to the police and the fire department. The Tel Aviv and central district police switchboards crashed."
Hundreds of kilometres? Talk about Greater Israel.
(With a hat tip to my emailer and Joe Katzman's comment here.)
Profound ignorance;
Chris McGreal is the Guardian foreign correspondent stationed full-time in Israel and Gaza. Makes you wonder what else he doesn't know.
Want to know how big Israel is? This site shows you. www.lookisrael.com
Shalom.