Posted on 12/27/2005 7:31:42 PM PST by HHKrepublican_2
Edited on 12/27/2005 9:45:59 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
JERUSALEM - Israeli jets attacked a Palestinian militant group's training base in southern Lebanon early Wednesday, hours after an Israeli border town was hit by rocket fire, the military said.
The base located south of Beirut is operated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a small group that has been waging a decades long fight against the Jewish state.
"This is in response to the firing of projectile rockets last night toward Israeli communities," the military said.
It said it views such attacks with "extreme severity" and holds Lebanon responsible.
There was no immediate word on casualties or damage in the strike, launched after three rockets landed in a residential area of Kiryat Shemona. The army said the rockets damaged some property but caused no injuries.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Both Hezbollah guerrillas and Palestinian militants operate in nearby southern Lebanon.
The raid came a month after Israeli jets attacked a command post of the Hezbollah guerrilla group in south Lebanon, responding to Hezbollah rocket and mortar attacks that wounded 11 Israeli soldiers and damaged a house in a border community.
Israel withdrew from an occupied enclave in southern Lebanon in 2000. While fighting in the area has dropped since then, the border remains tense and Hezbollah frequently targets Israeli troops in the disputed Chebaa Farms area.
Lebanon and Syria say Chebaa Farms is Lebanese territory, but U.N. cartographers who surveyed the border after the Israeli withdrawal said it belongs to that part of Syria which Israel has occupied since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Israel says it will discuss control of the area only in future peace talks with Syria.
Re your #96 -
Hopefully, that was a "bunker buster" that took the head Mullah behind the desk right on top of the turban and drove him straight to Hades like a bloody pile driver.
If so; well played indeed, IAF!
Re your 107: "... if Bush condemns Israel for this,..."
I fully expect him to. As a matter of fact he probably already has, I just have yet to read or watch the news yet this morning.
Applauding Israel for such bold initiative would certainly offend our "Friends" the Saudis, don't we know, and that would simply never do.
The best we might hope for, I opine, is tacit acknowledgement of Israel's "right to defend itself".
No kiddin', eh?
Yes, it's sad. The best and the right strategy for Bush is to applaud them.......that would give the middle-east something to ponder.
You really missed the point I was making.
Iran and Syria are getting free passes by both Bush (relating to Iraq) and Israel (in regards to their terrorists attacks).
I don't argue the point that Israel should take out any terrorist camp in Lebanon--I agree. My complaint is that Syria and Iran feed Hezbollah (among others) and little is done against them. In Bush's case, Iran has built many of the IEDs that have killed a lot of our troops, and Syria is funneling thugs into Iraq--again, Bush is not taking effective action to put a hurt on those two for doing that. That is my point that "Bush and Israel continue to give Iran and Syria a free pass".
Hmmmmm. That ole Jerry Lee Lewis song keeps going through my head.....with a slight change..."Come on over baby, whole lotta smitin' goin' on...."
(It said it views such attacks with "extreme severity" and holds Lebanon responsible.)
Israel reminds me of the school yard bully. Everybody knows that Hezbollah is more powerful than the Lebanese Army, and that Hezbollah is supported by Syria and Iran. Yet, Israel rarely if ever attack Syrians directly. However, they have for years bombed Lebanese electrical installations (that make electricity to ALL Lebanese, not just Hezbollah) and other Lebanese economic assets in retaliation for Hezbollah's attacks.
Most Americans don't realize that Lebanon is a major competitor of Syria and Israel in terms of tourist dollars. They both have done their best to never allow there to be peace in Lebanon so as to scare those tourists.
Sunna or later,Shi'ite will happen! Allahu fubar!
There'll be "Great Balls of Fire"!
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