Posted on 08/09/2006 11:31:06 AM PDT by tobyhill
JERUSALEM — Hezbollah chief Sheik Hassan Nasrallah warned that southern Lebanon would be turned into a "graveyard" if Israel continued its attacks and attempts to occupy the region that has been bombarded relentlessly for the last four weeks, in a speech aired on al-Manar television.
He also advised Lebanon to send its 15,000-soldier army to the Israeli border in an attempt to sway the United Nations to pass a resolution supporting its demands for a cease-fire.
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Muslim Arabs have terrible logistics and re-supply. They always need phony ceasefires (hudna) to bring in more ammunition, more weaponry and to lick their wounds. The Israelis can fight non stop.
Muhammad advocated phony truces and ceasefires. The Hizb'Allah merely copy their false prophet
He said this from his blasted, burned out shell of a bunker as bombs rained down around him outside.....
.....and where is this brave individual hiding? Amongst civilians, women and children?
"Take out the black turbans and bring this mess to a screeching halt."
Double-Dog Dittos to that! If the Israelis are holding back, they should just let loose the dogs of war and take them all out. The Lebanese people have been warned.
Only about 1 in 10 are actually making it to the cities and I figure the ones that do make it are packed with a bit more camel crap.
Well this is obvious, they'd have to bury the Hezzies in southern Lebanon after Israel kills them all. But maybe they could bury all of their terrorists in a cemetary instead of storing them in freezers to be used for later photo-ops.
Not if his orders are to hold until August 22nd.
Oh..... he's not winning this war. They're blasting the heck out of open fields in Israel. Israel is destroying the infrastructure of his country. And he'll be a dead man if he EVER sticks his head out of his bunker. The battles are all being fought on his turf, because Israel is taking it to him.
The press like so many love an underdog. He's an underdog and he's survied the first 3 weeks of the war. Surviving is not the same thing as winning..... unless you're the mainstream media.
July 31 speech by Ohlmert
Ladies and gentlemen, leaders of the world, I, the Prime Minister of Israel, am speaking to you from Jerusalem in the face of the terrible pictures from Kfar Kana. Any human heart, wherever it is, must sicken and recoil at the sight of such pictures. There are no words of comfort that can mitigate the enormity of this tragedy. Still, I am looking you straight in the eye and telling you that the State of Israel will continue its military campaign in Lebanon. The Israel Defense Forces will continue to attack targets from which missiles and Katyusha rockets are fired at hospitals, old age homes and kindergartens in Israel. I have instructed the security forces and the IDF to continue to hunt for the Katyusha stockpiles and launch sites from which these savages are bombarding the State of Israel. We will not hesitate, we will not apologize and we will not back off. If they continue to launch missiles into Israel from Kfar Kana, we will continue to bomb Kfar Kana. Today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Here, there and everywhere. The children of Kfar Kana could now be sleeping peacefully in their homes, unmolested, had the agents of the devil not taken over their land and turned the lives of our children into hell. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time you understood: the Jewish state will no longer be trampled upon. We will no longer allow anyone to exploit population centers in order to bomb our citizens. No one will be able to hide anymore behind women and children in order to kill our women and children. This anarchy is over. You can condemn us, you can boycott us, you can stop visiting us and, if necessary, we will stop visiting you. Today I am serving as the voice of six million bombarded Israeli citizens who serve as the voice of six million murdered Jews who were melted down to dust and ashes by savages in Europe. In both cases, those responsible for these evil acts were, and are, barbarians devoid of all humanity, who set themselves one simple goal: to wipe the Jewish people off the face of the earth, as Adolph Hitler said, or to wipe the State of Israel off the map, as Mahmoud Ahmedinjad proclaims. And you - just as you did not take those words seriously then, you are ignoring them again now. And that, ladies and gentlemen, leaders of the world, will not happen again. Never again will we wait for bombs that never came to hit the gas chambers. Never again will we wait for salvation that never arrives. Now we have our own air force. The Jewish people are now capable of standing up to those who seek their destruction - those people will no longer be able to hide behind women and children. They will no longer be able to evade their responsibility. Every place from which a Katyusha is fired into the State of Israel will be a legitimate target for us to attack. This must be stated clearly and publicly, once and for all. You are welcome to judge us, to ostracize us, to boycott us and to vilify us. But to kill us? Absolutely not.
Four months ago I was elected by hundreds of thousands of citizens to the office of Prime Minister of the government of Israel, on the basis of my plan for unilaterally withdrawing from 90 percent of the areas of Judea and Samaria, the birth place and cradle of the Jewish people; to end most of the occupation and to enable the Palestinian people to turn over a new leaf and to calm things down until conditions are ripe for attaining a permanent settlement between us. The Prime Minister who preceded me, Ariel Sharon, made a full withdrawal from the Gaza Strip back to the international border, and gave the Palestinians there a chance to build a new reality for themselves. The Prime Minister who preceded him, Ehud Barak, ended the lengthy Israeli presence in Lebanon and pulled the IDF back to the international border, leaving the land of the cedars to flourish, develop and establish its democracy and its economy. What did the State of Israel get in exchange for all of this? Did we win even one minute of quiet? Was our hand, outstretched in peace, met with a handshake of encouragement? Ehud Barak's peace initiative at Camp David let loose on us a wave of suicide bombers who smashed and blew to pieces over 1,000 citizens, men, women and children. I don't remember you being so enraged then. Maybe that happened because we did not allow TV close-ups of the dismembered body parts of the Israeli youngsters at the Dolphinarium? Or of the shattered lives of the people butchered while celebrating the Passover seder at the Park Hotel in Netanya? What can you do - that's the way we are. We don't wave body parts at the camera. We grieve quietly. We do not dance on the roofs at the sight of the bodies of our enemy's children - we express genuine sorrow and regret. That is the monstrous behavior of our enemies. Now they have risen up against us. Tomorrow they will rise up against you. You are already familiar with the murderous taste of this terror. And you will taste more. And Ariel Sharon's withdrawal from Gaza -- what did it get us? A barrage of Kassem missiles fired at peaceful settlements and the kidnapping of soldiers. Then too, I don't recall you reacting with such alarm. And for six years, the withdrawal from Lebanon has drawn the vituperation and crimes of a dangerous, extremist Iranian agent, who took over an entire country in the name of religious fanaticism, and is trying to take Israel hostage on his way to Jerusalem - and from there to Paris and London. An enormous terrorist infrastructure has been established by Iran on our border, threatening our citizens, growing stronger before our very eyes, awaiting the moment when the land of the Ayatollahs becomes a nuclear power in order to bring us to our knees. And make no mistake - we won't go down alone. You, the leaders of the free and enlightened world, will go down along with us. So today, here and now, I am putting an end to this parade of hypocrisy. I don't recall such a wave of reaction in the face of the 100 citizens killed every single day in Iraq. Sunnis kill Shiites who kill Sunnis, and all of them kill Americans - and the world remains silent. And I am hard pressed to recall a similar reaction when the Russians destroyed entire villages and burned down large cities in order to repress the revolt in Chechnya. And when NATO bombed Kosovo for almost three months and crushed the civilian population - then you also kept silent. What is it about us, the Jews, the minority, the persecuted, that arouses this cosmic sense of justice in you? What do we have that all the others don't? In a loud clear voice, looking you straight in the eye, I stand before you openly and I will not apologize. I will not capitulate. I will not whine. This is a battle for our freedom. For our humanity. For the right to lead normal lives within our recognized, legitimate borders. It is also your battle. I pray and I believe that now you will understand that. Because if you don't, you may regret it later, when it's too late.
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I guess at that time we'll see if horses really do fly?
"How so?"
Hezbollah is kicking Israel's ass, so to speak:
1. Missiles indiscriminately fired into Israel for weeks.
2. Israel can't hold a few miles of territory in puny Lebanon. Even one town, Bint Jbail that can't, or won't, hold. For decades that town will bne the rallying call for fanatic Arabs, increasing theirthem genocidal hopes and satisfying their insecure sense of honor.
3. Today's announcement about a possible further invasion is another defeat. Why? Because Israel has talked big about going to the Litani for weeks. Today's announcement is more of the same, repackaged, reiterating Olmert's hope the UN will save his cowardly soul. All of this will be replayed for decades by Arabs as the defeat of big, bad Israel by the few hundred men of Hezbollah.
This has been a critical defeat for Israel. F-16's bombing bridges is just a smokescreen.
Israel's only "out" is to impeach Olmert and widely advertise their military failures were not due to their military, but the decisions of an incompetent politician. And if they have military deficiencies, they better correct them soon.
It just occured to me...what exactly is the difference between "demanding a cease fire" and "crying uncle"?
Really? How far into Israel have they gone?
Why didn't Israel bomb his press conference? It would be relatively easy to track a live broadcast wouldn't it? It would have been great to have him interrupted mid-live-rant by a couple of 500 pounders.
Yeah yeah..."Mother of All Battles," blah, blah, blah...
Go Israel go! Once the terrorists are removed from southern Lebanon, the troublemaking palis can then have their own nation by resettling southern Lebanon after the terrorists hamas, al-aqsa, fatah, plf, etc. have been removed and sent to the hereafter. Good show, Israel!
Which war? He would't be calling for Lebanon to post their troops at the border if Hezbully was beating Israel.
"Really? How far into Israel have they gone?"
Missiles have gone many miles. Nasrallah threatens Tel Aviv with militarily insignificant missiles, the Israeli government makes all sorts of noise showing the terror works.
How far did Israel go in 1967 against big armies?
A victory for Hezbollah so far. Relatively. This smells like Fallujah 1 when Bush didn't pull the trigger and stopped the attack. That emboldened the Sadr, Sunnis, many others to increase terrorism and attacks. All they understand is balance of power.
I wish they would but I figure they're playing the old raise their stature only to pull the rug out from under them.
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