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Likud Minister: Another Conflict With Lebanon Is 'Inevitable'
Jerusalem Post ^ | 23 Jan 2010 | JPost Staff

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hezbollah; iran; israel; lebanon; middleeast; syria; wot
Follow up to other stories posted on FR concerning Israeli troop movements near Lebanese and Syrian borders.

Excerpt from the article:

...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.

1 posted on 01/23/2010 7:40:09 AM PST by edpc
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To: edpc

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.


2 posted on 01/23/2010 7:48:03 AM PST by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Thanks edpc.
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..."
3 posted on 01/23/2010 7:50:29 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: rbg81

They have a not so secret human shield in the white house


4 posted on 01/23/2010 7:55:09 AM PST by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: edpc

Finish it this time.


5 posted on 01/23/2010 8:05:13 AM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: edpc
And not a sound on this from the Apologizer-In-Chief.

With the small exception of his infantile interview in Time this week, wherein he annouced his discovery that Israel/Palestinian issues are “really hard.”

6 posted on 01/23/2010 10:43:14 AM PST by mojito
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