> By the way, how are they going to get there? I don't believe they have deployed troops since their lost battle at Marathon.
btw, Israeli troops never fought at Marathon. Here's a wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon,_Ontario
{
As long ago as 500 BC the area was inhabited by Ojibway Natives who
lived along the Pic River and there are still their descendants living
in the area today.
Marathon of today was born as a railroad community named Peninsula,
due to its location on a peninsula on Lake Superior. Constructing the
railroad, between 1881 and 1883, over the region's terrain was a great
engineering feat. At the time of the construction, some 12,000 men and
5,000 horses worked out of the town.
It has been said, but not verified, that certain sections of track
would be laid one day, only to be devoured by the earth the next. Like
most railroad communities, once the railroad had been completed
Peninsula's population dwindled considerably, and by 1935, the census
of the town was just 23.
It wasn't until a pulp mill was constructed in town, between 1944 and
1946, that the population rose back to 2,500, and the town's name was
changed, first to Everest - after D.C. Everest, president of Marathon
Corporation of Wisconsin, owners of the pulp mill in the town - then,
later the same year, to Marathon, in honor of the paper company
itself. The Everest name was discarded due to sounding too close to
Everett, Ontario.
Marathon Corporation operated the mill for eleven years before the
company was acquired by American Can Company in 1957. The Marathon
mill operated under the name American Can of Canada Limited for over
25 years. Then James River Corporation, which had purchased American
Can's US-based towel and tissue division in late 1981, entered into a
joint venture with Buchanan Forest Products to create James River-
Marathon Ltd. that purchased the mill in April 1983. In May 1997,
James River Corporation merged with Fort Howard Corporation and the
Marathon mill became Fort James-Marathon Ltd. Finally, in January
2000, Fort James sold Marathon to a 50/50 joint venture of Tembec and
Kruger, creating Marathon Pulp Inc.
In the early 1980s, gold was discovered at Hemlo, an uninhabited area
adjacent to the Trans Canada highway some 40 kilometres (25 mi) east
of Marathon. By the late 1980s, three mines were running at Hemlo,
with two of the three mines locating their employees in Marathon,
which effectively doubled its population making it the largest town
along the North Shore between Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Bay.
}
ps: get your fax straight