Communicating Arts - Main Web SiteOvernight, November 28-29, 2011 Israel received four rocket strikes out of southern Lebanon. That activity may have capped or continued (tune in tomorrow) an acceleration in the tempo of things going boom out of sight: i.e., a few rocket launches from Gaza around the middle of the month; a huge blast in Iran on November 17; a Hezbollah arms depot explosion (November 22-23, 2011).
Every week: another small would-be country heard from . . . .
So let's say there's a war on -- how is one to watch it, track it, keep it on the home radar, so to speak: Facebook? Twitter? Skype? CNN?
In recent times, one generation had dispatches telegraphed from the frontier; another, radio and the fireside chat; a little later, how could we forget, live at 6 p.m. on television, just in time for the family's supper; and now: Like it, Tweet it, Share it, blog it, or Skype over it, whatever it is, it's "incoming", it's in realtime or close to it, and some, doubtless and macabre, will see on their computer screens whatever it is that has come to their doorstep.
If "the revolution will not be televised," count on it becoming iPodized after it has been camera phoned, YouTubed, and gone viral.
Reference
Israel Defense Forces. "Rockets Hit Northern Israel." November 29, 2011: http://idfspokesperson.com/2011/11/29/rockets-hit-northern-israel/
The Jerusalem Post. "Rocket from Lebanon lands in Galilee; none hurt." November 29, 2011: http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=247351
AFP. "Gaza rocket hits Israel, no casualties." November 26, 2011: http://www.france24.com/en/20111126-gaza-rocket-hits-israel-no-casualties -- ""One round after another; we shall in the end need to move to broader, more aggressive action in the Gaza Strip," Benny Gantz said on November 15, just hours before Gaza-based militants fired rockets into southern Israel."
Dehghan, Saeed Kamali. "Iran: explosion in Isfahan reported." The Guardian. November 28, 2011: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/28/isfahan-explosion-report-iran-nuclear-facilities?newsfeed=true -- "Zaker-Isfanai denied reports that the explosion was related to the nuclear facilities. "There is no such a thing, the sound of the explosion was from the military exercise," he said." Perhaps more telling from this piece and the way the fact was mentioned: "The semi-official Fars news agency reported that Maj. Gen. Hassan Tehrani-Moqadam, in charge of IRGC's Office of Self sufficiency, was killed as a result of the explosion."
Levine, Adam. "Satellite images of Iran explosion." Security Clearance, CNN. November 28, 2011: http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/28/satellite-images-of-iran-explosion/ -- "Senior defense officials told Barbara Starr on November 17th that the U.S. believes the Iranians were mixing volatile fuel for a rocket motor for a large ballistic missile when the accident occurred."
Durden, Tyler. "Russia Retaliates Against US; Puts Radar Station on Combat Alert, Prepares to Take Out European Missile Defense Systems." Zerohedge.com, November 23, 2011: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/russia-retaliates-against-us-puts-radar-station-combat-alert-prepares-take-out-european-missile
Issacharoff, Avi. "Explosion rocks Hezbollah arms depot in southern Lebanon." November 23, 2011: http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/explosion-rocks-hezbollah-arms-depot-in-southern-lebanon-1.397263
Arutz Sheva. "Report: 36 Dead in Iran Blast." November 17, 2011: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/224851 -- "AFP based its figures on the names of the victims, one of whom was General Hassan Moqaddam of the Guards' missile programme. Iran originally said the blast was an accident, but later jumped on a bandwagon of sources blaming Israel for the explosion."
Haaretz. "Western official: Israel is behind recent Iran explosion." November 14, 2011: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/western-official-israel-is-behind-recent-iran-explosion-1.395512 ""Don't believe the Iranians that it was an accident," the Western official told Time, insisting that widespread assumptions that Israel's Mossad was responsible for Saturday's blast, which killed 17 and wounded 15, were correct."
Vick, Karl. "Was Israel Behind a Deadly Explosion at an Iranian Missile Base?" Time, World, November 13, 2011: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2099376,00.html -- "Last week's report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran had experimented with removing the conventional warhead on the Shahab-3 and replacing it with one that would hold a nuclear device. Iran says the explosion was an accident that came while troops were transferring ammunition out of the depot "toward the appropriate site."
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