WEEKLY STANDARD
Missiles Everywhere
by Willy Stern
June 20, 2016

Hezbollah has a nasty collection of more than 130,000 rockets, missiles, and mortars aimed at Israel. This is a bigger arsenal than all NATO countries (except the United States) combined. Why, a reasonable person might wonder, does Hezbollah need an offensive arsenal bigger than that of all Western Europe? “You don’t collect 130,000 missiles if you don’t intend to use them,” says Matthew Levitt, a counterterrorism expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy…Former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) major general Yaakov Amidror is talking about [Hezbollah’s] M-600 missile. It’s a fairly accurate ballistic missile that weighs more than a Hummer H2 and carries a formidable warhead. The M-600 can also deliver chemical weapons. A single M-600 could wipe out a good chunk of Times Square and maim and kill people four football fields away from the point of impact. Hezbollah has a lot of M-600s. READ MORE