TEL AVIV — Foreign militaries have sought briefings from Israel on
its response to the missile and rocket assault by Hizbullah during the recent war.
Israeli officials said the Israel Defense Forces and Defense Ministry
have been requested to provide briefings and solutions to missile and rocket
strikes based on Israel's 33-day war with Hizbullah, Middle East Newsline reported. They said despite the
military failure to stop Hizbullah rocket strikes foreign militaries regard
the August conflict as a harbinger of future insurgency and conventional
wars.
"We are seen by the world as a combat laboratory in all of the years of
our existence," Yossi Ben-Hanan, director of the Defense Ministry's Sibat,
said. "And after the war in Lebanon, the professional interest in us rises."
Ben-Hannan attended the MSPO defense exhibition in Poland in early
September that included more than a dozen Israeli contractors. He recalled
that foreign military and government delegations sought details of Israeli
anti-missile and rocket programs.
"They asked us many questions, regarding Nautilus and laser to defense
against short- and long-range missiles," Ben-Hannan said. "I gave truthful
and updated answers."
Ben-Hannan said Israel does not have what he termed "complete solutions"
regarding enemy missile and rocket threats. He said the Defense Ministry
outlined solutions for the interception of long-range rockets at a seminar
organized by Poland.
"Regarding short-range rockets, there is no answer and we have to launch
a ground assault," Ben-Hannan said. "There is no hocus-pocus. I think the
Jewish genius will find the suitable answer. You can't build everything on
fences."
