Posted on 09/06/2006 7:13:39 PM PDT by Alouette
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said in an interview published yesterday in the Lebanese newspaper As-Safir that his organization would remain armed and reserve its right to attack Israel at Shaba Farms, but stressed he would not rush to do so.
"We are coming out of a war now and are not in a hurry to carry out actions at the farms, but this is our right and nobody is entitled to give the Israelis security guarantees gratis," Nasrallah said.
He underscored that Hezbollah would keep its missiles but not use them, as it did during the decade preceding the war. "They will be used only when there is a wide-scale military assault on Lebanon," he said.
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Doesn't sound like someone who just won a war going by the MSM. Sounds like someone who got his butt whipped.
He added that he knows Olmert is making use of his statement that Hezbollah would not have kidnapped the two soldiers had it known this would result in war. "I don't mind that Olmert is benefiting from this. If we have to choose between a foolish prime minister and another who is strong and capable, we prefer that the fool remain," he said.
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Laughing up his sleeve at the Left, he is.
Pay attention America! This is why the left opposes Bush so much.
Your question reminded me of a scene in a story by Arthur Koestler...I think it was 'Arrow in the Blue'...
An old arab is sitting on the ground, watching Jewish workers clear a hill of rocks, on which to build a kibbutz and plant a garden...the old man gets up, peers through the fence, asks for a cigarette. He's given one. And as he lights up, he is asked, 'tell me why did your people never think to do what we are doing here?'
Let me ask you something, the arab said...am I here for the hill, or is the hill there for me?
Paraphrased. I read that a long time ago. But you'll get the idea...just give it time to sink in.
Don't worry...within six months the Mosad will have found it, and you'll be frying in Hell. They have a way of doing that to "leaders" like you.
Very astute on Koestler's part.
I hope the Mossad and Shin Beit know where it is.
I don't understand the story's significance. Can you explain it to me? It's late. :)
Dial that cell phone!!!
If I may jump in........... Can an untended garden remain a garden? Can a garden which was never started bear any fruit? Without his own labor, should a man expect any pay out?
'The Mukhtar let his glass sink. His face had become a greyish yellow, as in an attack of malaria, and his eyes were bloodshot. His stomach almost turned over at the thought that henceforth every morning when he got up the first thing to meet his eyes would be this abomination, this defilement, this brazen challenge of the intruders. Dogs on the Hill of Dogs, dropping their filth, wallowing in it, building their citadel of filth...It was finished. The whole landscape was spoilt. Never again, would he, the Mukhtar of Kfar Tabiyeh, be allowed to enjoy the use of his own balcony. His eyes would no longer rest in peace on God's creation, watch the fellaheen in the valley walking behind their wooden ploughs in dignified leisure, watch the sheep flocking over the slopes - they would be drawn to that one spot in which the whole landscape had become focused, that poisoned fountain of evil, the well of blasphemy and temptation...'
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You can take the arab out of the 7th century, but you can't take the 7th century out of the arab? Islam doesn't allow it.
I don't understand the story's significance. Can you explain it to me? It's late. :)
I'm trying to think of a modern analogy.
Say, a rich relative dies and leaves you a bright and shiny new sports car. Something you have always wanted. You park it on the street. It gets dirty.
Your father says, Son, time to give that car a wash...
And you say, But Dad, I was born to get a sports car for nothing, not to wash the d*amn thing!
: ) Nuke him!
Shebaa farms were disputed territory between Syria and Lebanon, which Syria controlled as part of the Golan Heights.
After Israel took the Golan heights in 1967, Syria "gave" it to Lebanon after Israel annexed the Golan heights. When Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, the UN drew the line IAW the old boundary between Syria and Lebanon.
The intent: Get back the Shebaa Farms, then use it to shoot mortars, artillery, and rockets at Israel, as Syria had done for years before 1967.
Thank you.
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