EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton calls on both sides ‘to refrain from exacerbating the situation,’ hails Egyptian mediation efforts
By Raphael Ahren November 12, 2012, 1:38 pm 5
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) with EU diplomats in Jerusalem, October 16 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The PM spoke of the fifteen second waring to take shelter:
“If an alarm is sounded, people in southern Israel — one million people — have 15 seconds to find shelter. I don’t know if any of your governments will accept this reality. I cannot accept this,” he told some 50 ambassadors in Ashkelon. “The world needs to understand that Israel has the right and duty to defend its citizens. We will act to stop the rocket fire.”Fifteen seconds is a very short time. Here is a video illustrating that
