PLA, I’d like to see your sources about Zionizm.
Just for the most basic knowledge, Zionizm comes from the word Zion, or Tzion, which is one of the names of Jerusalem. Basicly, being Zionist is to be an Israeli patriot. In Israel, when you say one is Zionist, you say he is a great man and patriot of Israel, for example the late Ilan Ramon.
BTW, Zionizm doesn’t sound too good in English in my opinion. In Israel you say Tzi’ionot.

I don’t wanna get into politics. There are other places for that.
I do suggest everyone to learn more about this situation between Israel and the Palestinians before experssing their opinions, which sometimes aren’t true, for both ways.
It’s so easy to judge others from far away, but it’s even easier if you don’t know all the details.

According to the Israeli Air Force website, the first F-16I had its first flight yesterday:)

The F-4 is as good as withdrawn from Israeli service, if not completely by now. You are right about it still being in use in considerable numbers in Iran, but you are most delusional in your ‘backbone of the IDF/AF’-statement. The Pahtom might have been that 25 years ago, it definately has lost that title a long time ago.

Backbone? no, not at all. That would be the F-16.
The F-4s are flying today. The latest date I heard of retirement is in less than a year, but that was told by a man I don’t know over the internet. He said that it will be in 24.08.04 (and he said that two months ago, it just happen to be the 24th today also). It sounds logical, but who knows. Or how do they say, “ever since the temple was destroyed, prophesy was given to the fools”. It all depends on how soon we’ll have a squadron of F-16Is..

Question to the MiG-29 experts.
Which version of the 29 is all in all better, SMT or M2, and what is different between them?
The MiG-29M2 looks like a good airplane, kind of a Strike Eagleski (in a good way). Does it has a chance to go into service in Russia?
Is there any country showing interest in it? (would be a shame to see it as an enemy)

Ok, I’m not going to Eilat in the near future…:D

I do?
And except of Ramallah and other Palestinian places. I don’t live next to them.

By that logic, Dimona should be destroyed as well.

I wish.
Funny that some people in the world are thinking that we are such an aggresive nation. We have the right to have nuclear weapons, as a last option, or at least for scaring off enemy nations. While we aren’t planning to use it, Iran does.
Technically, can they actually destroy Israel without damaging or destroying Al-Aqtza, Al-quds, the entire Arab population in Israel and the Palestinian authority, as well as parts of the other countries around us?
Not really.