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---- 2006 Lebanon War ----
Iran Increasing Control over Hizbullah
Operations - Amos Harel (Ha'aretz) [Courtesy -- Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Daily Alert, February 26, 2009]
Report: Iran Supplied Hizbullah with Advanced
Missiles - Roee Nahmias (Ynet News) [Courtesy -- Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Daily Alert, August 29, 2008]
Hizbullah Free to Decide on Military Action to
Defend Lebanon - Zvi Bar'el [Courtesy -- Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Daily Alert, August 4, 2008]
srael to Hold Lebanon Responsible for Hizbullah's Actions - Barak Ravid Israel will hold Lebanon responsible for any attacks against Israel, in particular for any Hizbullah efforts to avenge the death of its military leader Imad Mughniyeh. This decision on Wednesday by the security cabinet represents a change in Israeli policy, which had always firmly separated Hizbullah and the Lebanese government. Israel will treat the Lebanese unity government, which is headed by Fouad Siniora and includes Hizbullah, as responsible for any event that takes place in its sovereign territory or events for which Lebanese nationals are responsible. A senior Jerusalem source said if Hizbullah attacks Israel from Lebanese territory, shoots at Israel Air Force aircraft, or carries out a terror attack abroad, Israel will hold Lebanon responsible and respond appropriately. In the Second Lebanon War, Israel avoided damaging Lebanese civilian infrastructure such as power stations, ports or government institutions, despite the recommendation of then-IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz, due to pressure from Washington on Israel. Defense officials noted that the guidelines of the new Lebanese government, approved by President Michel Suleiman, allow Hizbullah to continue its military activity against Israel. (Ha'aretz) [Courtesy -- Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Daily Alert, August 8, 2008]
Barak: UN Resolution on Lebanon War a Failure [Courtesy -- Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Daily Alert, July 15, 2008]
IDF: Despite UNIFIL, Hizbullah Has Built Up
Underground Infrastructure in Southern Lebanon
- Rebecca Anna Stoil (Jerusalem Post) [Courtesy -- Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Daily Alert, June 18, 2008]
Palestinians Congratulate Hizbullah for "Freeing Heroes" - Ali Waked [Courtesy -- Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Daily Alert, July 16, 2008]
Lebanese Terrorist in Possible Prisoner Swap
Vows to Return to Jihad - Roni Shaked [Courtesy -- Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Daily Alert, May 30, 2008]
In Lebanon, Hizbullah Arms Stockpile Bigger,
Deadlier - Sebastian Rotella [Courtesy -- Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Daily Alert, May 6, 2008]
Hizbullah Militants Training in Iran for Next
War with Israel - Nicholas Blanford
Israel: Hizbullah Increases Rocket Range
- Matti Friedman (AP)
IDF: Hizbullah Missiles Deployed in South
Lebanon - Amos Harel (Ha'aretz) [Courtesy -- Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Daily Alert, February 11, 2008]
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Oct 2007: Thousands of Iranian Soldiers in Lebanon Hizballah says it's preparing for another major battle with Israel by regrouping and amassing some 33,000 missiles. Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah, February 2007: "We are completing our preparedness for a greater and more dangerous stage."
Lebanon Army / international force to disarm Hizballah? Lebanon, France say, "Forget it." (More than one third of the Lebanon's army is Shi'ite, a community in which Hizballah is overwhelmingly popular.) Even the U.S. goes soft. UN resolution 1701. Hypocrisy of China, Russia, EU. Meanwhile, Hizballah executes "collaborators" as Syrian weapons convoys flow & they count down to the destruction of Israel. Nov 2007- only 3 months since cease fire - Hizballah back in S. Lebanon stronger than ever - armed with more rockets than they had before the conflict. Moderate Arabs: If Israel can be beaten, the whole equation changes.
UNIFIL commander Maj.-Gen. Alain Pellegrini: UN force will not engage Hizballah even if it is in the midst of an attack against Israel.
Israel Takes Stock -- As should we all. Halevi: Israel's Broken Heart
The Stakes Are Enormous for Israel - The U.S. - The Region
The Conflict Reveals Extreme Anti-Semitism of "Progressive" Blogs: Daily Kos, Huffington Post -- Their detrimental effect on the Democratic Party
NYC Pro-Hizballah demonstration. Thousands rally FOR TERROR around the world (video)
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, July 18, 2007: "It is important to remember that until the morning of September 11, 2001, Hizballah had been responsible for the deaths of more Americans, our countrymen, than any other terrorist group in the world."
The leader they support, Hassan Nasrallah (2002): "If they [Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide." Washington D.C. Aug 12. July 26 -- Dearborn, Michigan: Publisher of the Arab American News, "If morally supporting Hizballah...is a crime, 'there is not going to be enough buses to haul the people out and take them to jail.'"
Tom Gross: Large sections of the international media not only misreported the conflict in Lebanon, they actively fanned the flames. Media War: How pictures were selected and manipulated. Amnesty Int'l [more]- War Crimes? Disproportionate civilian casualties? Fauxtography Scandal - in depth; Shame on Time Magazine.
The Red Cross Ambulance Incident: How the Media Legitimized an Anti-Israel Hoax
CNN's Nic Robertson in Beirut: "There's no doubt that the bombs are hitting Hizballah facilities.... When you hear their claims they have to come with more than a grain of salt."
Marvin Kalb: "The Israeli-Hizbullah War of 2006: The Media as a Weapon in Asymmetrical Conflict" The Media's coverage of Lebanon's mini-civil war against Fatah al-Islam reveals its double standard when it comes to Israel -----------------------
July 2007 - Iran-Syria proxies Hamas-Hizballah ATTACK ISRAEL from the two territories from which it unilaterally withdrew. Morning hours of July 12 - WORST ATTACK SINCE THE IDF LEFT LEBANON IN MAY 2000 -- Hizballah crosses Israeli-Lebanese international border, attacks routine Israel patrol, abducts 2 Israeli soldiers, kills 8 under cover of massive diversionary rocket barrages against IDF forces and Israeli civilians. When Israel retaliates, Hizballah rains missiles down across northern Israel prompting Israel's campaign to destroy Hizballah's offensive capabilities. July 19 -- the 8th day of fighting and 12th anniversary of bombing of Jewish Center in Buenos Aires by Hizballah
Hizballah strikes Haifa to the Galilee: 2,000,000 Israelis under missile threat. Rockets loaded with shrapnel to maximize civilian casualties. Missiles readied capable of striking Tel Aviv. Linked to up to 75% of terror attacks against Israel between late 2003 and late 2004, Hizballah planned this battle for many years, having built underground bunkers two and three stories deep and having assembled an immense arsenal --- stockpiled for strategic reasons among civilians (like Qana -- what really happened -- a press feeding frenzy) --- as UN monitors looked the other way. (Hizballah's tactic of attacking from UN positions, reminiscent of Palestinian terrorist use of UN ambulances, may have lead to Israel's unintentional strike) Proof of Hizballah's deliberate use of civilians as shields
July 16: At least 1/2 of Haifa's 250,000 residents have left the city. Haifa is Israel's 3rd largest city. August 5: More than half of the population in the north has left their homes and gone south. August 8: A million residents living in shelters.
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Israel responds in a controlled manner targeting Hizballah strongholds proportional to the threat posed by an enemy seeking to end Israel's existence and launched from hospitable Lebanese territory Most of the damage in Beirut limited to a single square mile of the southern suburbs UK Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells told the UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee that Hizballah's tactics in hiding weapons in civilian areas had gone to "new depths." The minister alleged that Hizballah had hidden caches of arms in schools and mosques, and rockets in apartment blocks in southern Lebanon. "Every time the Israelis responded...and smashed a building down, every picture of a burnt child and every picture of a building that had housed people [where] there was now pancake on the ground was propaganda for Hizballah. And if an organization like Hizballah is ruthless enough to exploit those tactics, then one wonder how it can ever be possible in the future to, if you like, win the justice on your side against such an enemy." (BBC News) -----------------------
Dershowitz: The Hizballah rocket attacks against Israel are the first battle of what is likely to become a world war of terrorists versus democracies. It must become a war crime to fire rockets from civilian population centers and then hide among civilians. The terrorists, not their victims, must be deemed the war criminals. Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Yaalon: The world is sending the opposite message.
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Abraham H. Foxman: By making it well-nigh impossible for Israel to hit its military infrastructure and arms without harming civilians, Hizballah calculatedly created an impossible dilemma: to avoid imposing civilian casualties in Lebanon by leaving Hizballah missiles intact and leaving Israeli citizens vulnerable, or taking out Hizballah missiles with civilian casualties. Israel observes the first responsibility of a state - to protect its people from outside attack. And, in the process, it tries its best to minimize the damage to the Lebanese. It is Hizballah that is ultimately responsible for what has happened, and it was an illusion to talk about a normal, independent Lebanon as long as a terrorist group, armed to the teeth by two of the most dangerous states on the planet, held sway in the south of the country.
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National Post-Canada,
The Qana Tragedy, Editorial
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Prominent Islamist preacher
Sheikh Yusef
al-Qaradawi:
------------------ 63% of Palestinians: emulate Hizballah -- fire rockets at Israeli cities
Palestinians Learning Lessons from Lebanon,
See Missiles as Answer to Israel's Security Fence
- Avi Issacharoff, (Ha'aretz) Rawda Atallah, head of the Arab Cultural Association in Haifa: "Hizballah's popularity has increased immensely among the Arabs in Israel"
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