Posted on 01/23/2010 7:40:08 AM PST by edpc
Another military conflict between Israel and Lebanon is "inevitable," Minister-without-Portfolio Yossi Peled (Likud) Saturday at a Beersheba event.
"Without a doubt we are heading for another round (of fighting) in the North. No one knows when, but it's clear that it will happen," the former OC Northern Command said. "We did not know that the Second Lebanon War was going to break out."
Peled's comments came some three-and-a-half years after the Second Lebanon War against Hizbullah.
Also Saturday, The Washington Post reported that Hizbullah had moved long-range-missile launch pads into both northern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, and that there was little the UN presence in the area could do to stop a war between Israel and the guerrilla group.
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...there was little the UN presence in the area could do to stop a war between Israel and the guerrilla group.
Could do is more accurate when replaced with is willing to do.
That’s for sure. If another war breaks out, I would not put it past the UN contingent to fight on the side of Hezbollah. Or at least serve as human shields for them.
Also Saturday, The Washington Post reported that Hizbullah had moved long-range-missile launch pads into both northern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, and that there was little the UN presence in the area could do to stop a war between Israel and the guerrilla group.may as well read, "in an unrelated story, the Washington Post..."
They have a not so secret human shield in the white house
Finish it this time.
With the small exception of his infantile interview in Time this week, wherein he annouced his discovery that Israel/Palestinian issues are “really hard.”
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