Posted on 07/16/2006 9:05:37 AM PDT by veronica
The cool rage of Hassan Nasrallah crackled over the telephone line to a Beirut television station. Israeli jets had just tried to kill him from the air, destroying his home and office. "You wanted an open war, and we are ready for an open war," the Hizbullah leader warned. His missile-armed militia would reach deep into Israel. "Our homes will not be the only ones to be destroyed, our children will not be the only ones to die," he vowed. "You wanted to change the rules of the game? You don't know who you're fighting."
He had a point. Israel's nearby enemy was clear enough. The crisis began in Gaza on June 25, when a corporal in the Israeli Army was taken hostage by Hamas guerrillas. Then it exploded across the region last week after Hizbullah guerrillas crossed into Israel to snatch two more soldiers, killing eight. Israel's reaction was swift, brutal and massive. Its forces took the whole of Lebanon hostage, treating the state on its northern border just as it treated the Palestinian territory to its south, tearing apart highways, blockading ports, blowing up the runways and fuel dumps at Beirut's international airport—setting out not only to free the hostages but to eliminate Hizbullah once and for all. Yes, this was war. Nasrallah was right about that.
But battles—and battle lines—are rarely if ever simple in the Middle East. Nasrallah knows that. So do the Israelis, who saw hidden hands behind the Lebanese and Palestinian militants.
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What a loon. No one knows better than the Israelis who and what they are fighting.
That was the point of the article. Considering the source, I was really surprised that the article was so rational.
I hope folks take the time to read the whole article. It's quite good.
Let's see.
Iran is in increasing hot water over its nuke program. So much so, that seem that the papers and TV/SATCOM channels carry pretty nothing else, with the exception of an occation joke story, like North Corea.
Time to switch the pressure and take a little heat off the mullahs.
Bingo - provoke the IDF into another 'attack' on the poor Palis.
Problem solved.
And they can continue thier nuke effort without a spotlight and may have bought some time as well.
---"Our homes will not be the only ones to be destroyed, our children will not be the only ones to die," he vowed.---
Big holy man talking. Once again, what kind of religion is this?
"You don't know who you're fighting."
They turn everything around 180?. Ahmadinajud says Israel is like Hitler. He is.
Hezbollah says Israel doesn't know who they're fighting. They do. It's hezbollah. Lebanon, Syria, Iran and North Korea.
They don'y know who thjey are fighting: Zechariah: "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
012:003 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
012:004 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
012:005 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
012:006 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
012:007 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
012:008 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
012:009 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
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