Background of the recent Hizballah’s assault on Israel

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1. LadyBird says:

   July 13, 2006 at 16:40

   All com­ments will be moderated
2. Grigory Rasputin says:

   July 14, 2006 at 05:29

   Islamic Craps

   Paleos, Hizzies, Sun­nis, Aya­tol­lahs and their sup­port­ers all remind me degen­er­ate gam­blers play­ing against the HOUSE.

   These play­ers are so addicted that every time some of them lose every­thing, the house, the fam­ily even their life — the rest become even more greedy and full of lust, the worst is when when they win, they keep gam­bling until they lose again.

   They are degen­er­ate gam­blers they live in order to beat the HOUSE, for cen­turies, they’ve tried dozens and dozens of meth­ods and sys­tems all for naught.

   You’d think these degen­er­ate gam­blers would be addicted to the high of win­ning, But the more you lis­ten and watch them, you dis­cover they feel most alive when they are los­ing. What they remem­ber are the losses, not the wins. The wins just slip through their fin­gers because they are addicted to los­ing. It’s quite sim­ple really the Ummah must lose in order to feel alive; which btw is char­ac­ter­is­tic of all nat­ural born LOSERS!

   THE HOUSE NEVER LOSES
3. boy palpal says:

   July 15, 2006 at 13:07

   i cant under­stand why chris­tians defend the jews and hate the mus­lims. jews does even believe in jesus christ.…… for­got who nailed him to the cross?.….….
4. Michael says:

   July 15, 2006 at 23:01

   The Prop-Masters
   http://webwarper.net/ww/~s/www.revisionisthistory.org/communist.html

   Per­pe­tra­tors of the holo­caust against Chris­t­ian Rus­sia trans­form them­selves into “sur­vivors” of a holocaust.
5. Jon says:

   July 16, 2006 at 00:40

   G — “THE HOUSE NEVER LOSES”

   Lay off the crack, brother.

   BP — “i cant under­stand why chris­tians defend the jews and hate the muslims.”

   None of the Chris­tians I know hate Mus­lims. Maybe you’ve been hang­ing out with the wrong sort of people.

   “for­got who nailed him to the cross?”

   I’m bet­ting that you were mis­tak­enly think­ing it was the Jews, when it was actu­ally (or report­edly) the Romans.

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7. brian says:

   July 21, 2006 at 08:48

   ere the cap­tured Israeli sol­diers inside Lebanon?
   Cat­e­gory: Lebanon — Bob @ 12:14 am

   From The National Coun­cil of Arab Amer­i­cans blog

   The Israelis so far have not been able to enter
   Aita al-Shaab to recover the tank that was exploded by
   Hizbul­lah and the bod­ies of the sol­diers that were
   killed in the orig­i­nal oper­a­tion (this is a main
   indi­ca­tion that the oper­a­tion did take place on
   Lebanese soil, not that in my opin­ion it would ever be
   an ille­git­i­mate oper­a­tion, but still the media has
   been say­ing that it was inside ‘Israel’ thus an
   aggres­sion first started by Hizbullah).

   http://polizeros.com/2006/07/18/captured-israeli-soldiers
   ===============================

   CONFIRMATION: ISRAELI SOLDIERS WERE INSIDE LEBANON
   WHEN CAPTURED
   TRANSLATION OF SECOND PARAGRAPH: “Here facts:
   Hezbol­lah requires since long years the release of
   pris­on­ers held by Israel, such as Samir el Kan­tar,
   impris­oned since 1978, Nas­sim Nisr and Yahia Skaff
   which is impris­oned since 1982. In many occa­sion, it
   let know that the weather would not fail to be cap­tive
   in its turn Israeli sol­diers — if Ci-that-Ci had been
   sud­denly intro­duced in Lebanon, and to use them like
   mon­naire of exchange. In a delib­er­ated way, Tsa­hal
   sent a com­mando in the Lebanese back-country to Aïta
   Al Chaab. It was attacked by Hezbol­lah, mak­ing two
   pris­on­ers. Israel A then pre­tends to be attacked and
   attacked Lebanon. Hezbol­lah, which pre­pared to face an
   Israeli aggres­sion that each one knew immi­nent since
   the Syr­ian with­drawal, drew from the
   intermediate-range mis­siles on Israel. “
   Posted Jul 20, 2006 05:47 PM PST
   Cat­e­gory: LEBANON

   This story, in French, con­firms what the Asia Times
   reported. Israel sent their sol­diers across the bor­der
   into Aïta Al Chaab. It was there, on the Lebanese side
   of the bor­der, where Hezbol­lah took them pris­oner.
   http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

   the french orig­i­nal is here:
   http://www.voltairenet.org/article142056.html

   also the story is here:

   ‘Tyre, South­ern Lebanon — Lebanon\‘s pro-Syrian Shi­ite
   move­ment is back in the spot­light after cap­tur­ing two
   Israeli sol­diers on Wednes­day, plung­ing the coun­try
   into a cri­sis that could lead to new vio­lence in the
   region.

   Accord­ing to ana­lysts here, Hezbol­lah fol­lowed in the
   foot­steps of the Pales­tin­ian move­ment Hamas, whose
   mil­i­tants last month cap­tured an Israeli sol­dier
   spark­ing a mas­sive Israeli offen­sive into the Gaza
   Strip.

   Despite the fear of a wide-scale Israeli assault
   oper­a­tion sim­i­lar to Gaza\‘s offen­sive, the cap­tur­ing
   of the two sol­diers have prompted many Lebanese,
   espe­cially fol­low­ers of the Shi­ite move­ment, to
   cel­e­brate with gun­fire. The kid­nap­ping was described
   by Hezbol­lah chief Sheikh Has­san Nas­ral­lah as the
   \‘hon­est promise to all Lebanese prisoners.\’

   In the after­noon, the scene changed in the streets of
   south­ern Lebanon, which was the tar­get of 32 Israeli
   raids that mainly tar­geted areas near the area where
   the two sol­diers were cap­tured in Aita al Chaab, close
   to the bor­der with Israel.
   http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/article_1180404.php/Hezbollah_back_in_the_spotlight_after_capturing_soldiers

   Asia times has also reported the sam:

   ‘It all started on July 12 when Israel troops were
   ambushed on LEBANON’S SIDE OF THE BORDER with Israel.
   Hezbol­lah, which com­mands the Lebanese south,
   imme­di­ately seized on their cross­ing. They arrested
   two Israeli sol­diers, killed eight Israelis and
   wounded over 20 in attacks inside Israeli ter­ri­tory.
   http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HG15Ak02.html

   This sup­ports the israeli provo­ca­tion thesis,such as
   they used in 1967.
8. Michael says:

   July 21, 2006 at 15:32

   Yes you are right Brian, the two Israeli ter­ror­ists were inside the Lebanon when they were arrested by His­bol­lah. The point is how­ever that Israel planned the inva­sion of the Lebanon before these 2 Israelis were arrested or before Hizbol­lah fired a sin­gle rocket.
   Israeli Forces Enter Lebanon After 2 Sol­diers Are Seized
   By GREG MYRE and STEVEN ERLANGER
   http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/world/middleeast/12cnd-mideast.html?
   JERUSALEM, July 12 — With two more sol­diers cap­tured today, Israel launched a major mil­i­tary offen­sive on a sec­ond front, send­ing armored forces into south­ern Lebanon in response to a brazen bor­der raid by the mil­i­tant group Hezbol­lah that killed at least seven sol­diers in addi­tion to those abducted.

   Reservists called up for Lebanon strike
   By YAAKOV KATZ AND JPOST STAFF
   http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150885978380&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
   Jul. 12, 2006 13:13 | Updated Jul. 13, 2006 5:44

   The IAF on Wednes­day began to issue call up orders in prepa­ra­tion for retal­ia­tory air strikes against Hizbul­lah tar­gets in Lebanon, Chan­nel 2 reported. The air force will tar­get power sta­tions and Hizbul­lah out­posts inside Lebanon.

   The army was also call­ing up reservists. Only weeks ago, an entire reserve divi­sion was drafted in order to train for an oper­a­tion such as the one the IDF is plan­ning in response to Wednes­day morning’s Hizbul­lah attacks on IDF forces along the north­ern bor­der.

   A very high rank­ing mil­i­tary offi­cer said that if the sol­diers were not returned in good con­di­tion, Israel would turn Lebanon back 20 years by strik­ing its vital infra­struc­ture.
9. Charles says:

   July 22, 2006 at 06:11

   Israel launched the raids after Hezbol­lah, the Lebanese polit­i­cal and mil­i­tary organ­i­sa­tion, attacked north­ern Israel on Wednes­day killing eight sol­diers and abduct­ing two.

   http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A67F0AD3-7964-41BC-98A9-CA752CA5B89F.htm

   I haven’t seen any reports that the sol­diers were inside Lebanon at the time of the attack. No one is cov­er­ing that angle.

   All the media out­lets are say­ing the same thing (although they could be wrong of course).

   Or by ‘Lebanon’ do you mean ter­ri­tory on the Israeli side of the cur­rent bor­der that Lebanon claims?
10. Jon says:

    July 22, 2006 at 08:53

    Charles — “I haven’t seen any reports that the sol­diers were inside Lebanon at the time of the attack.”

    One of hezballah’s MOs is to send in a rab­bit to pro­voke a pur­suit by a small unit and then ambush with over­whelm­ing num­bers. Not say­ing that’s what hap­pened, but that’s prob­a­bly what happened.

    “Or by ‘Lebanon’ do you mean ter­ri­tory on the Israeli side of the cur­rent bor­der that Lebanon claims?”

    True dat.
11. Truth About Iraqis says:

    July 22, 2006 at 09:52

    Charles, wrong again, as usual.

    The Lebanese Shi­ite Hezbol­lah move­ment announced on Wednes­day that its guer­ril­las have cap­tured two Israeli sol­diers in south­ern Lebanon. “Imple­ment­ing our promise to free Arab pris­on­ers in Israeli jails, our strug­glers have cap­tured two Israeli sol­diers in south­ern Lebanon,” a state­ment by Hezbol­lah said.

    “The two sol­diers have already been moved to a safe place,” it added. The Lebanese police said that the two sol­diers were cap­tured as they “infil­trated” into the town of Aitaa al-Chaab inside the Lebanese bor­der. [Hin­dus­tan Times 7/12/06]

    The Lebanese Hezbol­lah move­ment announced Wednes­day the arrest of two Israeli sol­diers in south­ern Lebanon. Lebanese police said that the two sol­diers were arrested as they entered the town of Aitaa al-Chaab inside the Lebanese bor­der. Israeli air­craft were active in the air over south­ern Lebanon, police said, with jets bomb­ing roads lead­ing to the mar­ket town of Nabatiyeh, 60 kilo­me­ters south of Beirut. [Bahrain News Agency 7/12/06]

    TRANSLATION: Accord­ing to the Lebanese police force, the two sol­diers were cap­tured in Lebanese ter­ri­tory, in the area of Aïta Al-Chaab close to the bor­der, whereas Israeli tele­vi­sion indi­cated that they had been cap­tured in Israeli ter­ri­tory. [fr.news.yahoo 7/12/06]

    In the after­noon, the scene changed in the streets of south­ern Lebanon, which was the tar­get of 32 Israeli raids that mainly tar­geted areas near the area where the two sol­diers were cap­tured in Aita al Chaab, close to the bor­der with Israel. [news.monstersandcritics.com 7/12/06]

    It all started on July 12 when Israel troops were ambushed on Lebanon’s side of the bor­der with Israel. Hezbol­lah, which com­mands the Lebanese south, imme­di­ately seized on their cross­ing. They arrested two Israeli sol­diers, killed eight Israelis and wounded over 20 in attacks inside Israeli ter­ri­tory. [Asia Times 7/15/06]

    TRANSLATION: In a delib­er­ated way, Tsa­hal sent a com­mando in the Lebanese back-country to Aïta Al Chaab. It was attacked by Hezbol­lah, mak­ing two pris­on­ers. [voltairenet.org 7/18/06]

    And lastly, your dar­ling Forbes online:

    Asso­ci­ated Press
    Hezbol­lah Cap­tures 2 Israeli Sol­diers
    By JOSEPH PANOSSIAN , 07.12.2006, 05:41 AM

    The mil­i­tant group Hezbol­lah cap­tured two Israeli sol­diers dur­ing clashes Wednes­day across the bor­der in south­ern Lebanon, prompt­ing a swift reac­tion from Israel, which sent ground forces into its neigh­bor to look for them.

    The forces were try­ing to keep the sol­diers’ cap­tors from mov­ing them deeper into Lebanon, Israeli gov­ern­ment offi­cials said on con­di­tion of anonymity.

    Wanna see a map?

    Here you go:

    http://uruknet.info/uruknet-images/carte-finul.gif
12. Charles says:

    July 22, 2006 at 14:02

    Thanks TAI. Seri­ously. I have already seen the map. Aita Al Chaab seems to be right on the border.

    The ‘wrong again as usual’ isn’t nec­es­sary. You links don’t prove anything.

    I still don’t think it is entirely clear. The major­ity of media out­lets, includ­ing al jazeera, reported it as a pris­oner grab inside Israel.

    The ref­er­ences to inside Lebanon may just be pos­tur­ing dure to dis­puted boundary.

    Has the Lebanese gov­ern­ment said any­thing defin­i­tive on this?

    There is obvi­ously a big dif­fer­ence between an armed incur­sion into Israel to kill soldiers/snatch pris­on­ers, and ambush­ing a patrol that is inside YOUR country.

    In either case, its an esca­la­tion by Hezbol­lah with no approval from sov­er­eign Lebanon, but the dif­fer­ence is still significant.
13. Jon says:

    July 22, 2006 at 14:28

    Intereting stuff. How will this keep Lebanon from being bombed back to the stone age?

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