Update from Lebanon

Posted on July 26, 2006 by Sappho

From Elaph’s sources in Lebanon, 38 Israeli sol­diers Golani Brigade [accord­ing to Israel they the best of the best spe­cial forces] killed in clashes inside the city Bint Jubail.

Hizbal­lah fight­ers seceded to push the Israelis out­side the city.

On the Mid­dle East Buddy list, there are wrong infor­ma­tion about Hizbal­lah in Iraq.

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3 Responses to Update from Lebanon

  1. brian says:
    July 27, 2006 at 03:18

    I may as well post this here:

    I wish also to draw peo­ples atten­tion to the fol­low­ing, to which my atten­tion has been drawn: how Joseph Panossians’s (Asso­ci­ated Press) story changes from legit­i­mate news­piece to war propaganda.

    ====================================

    1.
    July 12 5.41 am

    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.

    The Israeli mil­i­tary would not con­firm the report.

    Ear­lier, Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Ehud Olmert called an
    emer­gency Cab­i­net meet­ing and said Lebanese guer­ril­las
    would pay a “heavy price” for Wednesday’s attacks.

    “These are dif­fi­cult days for the state of Israel and
    its cit­i­zens,” Olmert said. “There are peo­ple … who
    are try­ing to test our resolve. They will fail and
    they will pay a heavy price for their actions.”

    Copy­right 2006 Asso­ci­ated Press. All rights reserved.
    This mate­r­ial may not be pub­lished broad­cast,
    rewrit­ten, or redistributed

    http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2006/07/12/ap2873051.html

    NOTE THIS FIRST REPORT HAS ISRAEL SAYING ‘NO COMMENT’

    ================================
    2.
    July 12 7.09 AM ET

    Hezbol­lah cap­tures 2 Israeli sol­diers By JOSEPH
    PANOSSIAN, Asso­ci­ated Press Writer
    Wed Jul 12, 7:09 AM ET

    BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Hezbol­lah mil­i­tant group
    cap­tured two Israeli sol­diers dur­ing clashes along the
    Lebanese bor­der on Wednes­day, trig­ger­ing an Israeli
    assault with war­planes, tanks and gun­boats as Israeli
    troops crossed the fron­tier to hunt for the captives.

    Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Ehud Olmert called the
    guer­rilla attack “an act of war” and warned that
    Hezbol­lah would pay a “heavy price” for its actions.

    etc

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060712/ap_on_re_mi_ea/lebanon_israel_clash_9

    ISRAEL NOW READY WITH COMMENTS: AND ‘ACT OF WAR’
    DECLARED
    =======================
    3.
    July 12 4.13PM ET

    Israel hits Lebanon after sol­diers grabbed By JOSEPH
    PANOSSIAN, Asso­ci­ated Press Writer
    Wed Jul 12, 4:13 PM ET

    BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hezbol­lah mil­i­tants crossed into
    Israel on Wednes­day and cap­tured two Israeli
    sol­diers. Israel responded in south­ern Lebanon with
    war­planes, tanks and gun­boats, and said eight of its
    sol­diers had been killed in the violence.

    Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Ehud Olmert called the
    sol­diers’ cap­ture “an act of war,” and his Cab­i­net
    pre­pared to approve more mil­i­tary action in Lebanon —
    a sec­ond front in the fight against Islamic mil­i­tants
    by Israel, which already is wag­ing an oper­a­tion to
    free a cap­tured sol­dier in the Gaza Strip.

    Israel, how­ever, appeared deter­mined to win free­dom
    for its troops with a show of force.
    ETC

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060712/ap_on_re_mi_ea/lebanon_israel_clash

    STORY UNDERGOES FURTHER EVOLUTION: CAPTURE TOOK PART
    IN ISRAEL, AND ISRAEL NOW DECLARES ITSELF A
    SELF-RIGHTEOUS VICTIM
    ==============================

    Part 2.

    This is chart­ing of the evo­lu­tion of a legit newsitem
    into war pro­pa­ganda, shown first at
    http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2006/07/where-exactly-were-those-israeli.html

    is cru­cial to the anti­war case…

    Now, theres no guar­an­tee that all these pieces with
    his name are by Panoss­ian, and not some sub-editor
    doing some cre­ative edit­ing. But at least Joseph
    Panoss­ian should be con­fronted with this
    evi­dence and made to explain himself.

    Brian

  2. Robert Frost says:
    July 28, 2006 at 05:40

    :-) what a hoot this site is!

  3. Charles says:
    July 28, 2006 at 06:42

    Sure Frost.

    Its amaz­ing that LB didn’t con­sider the time stamps on the reports that rep­re­sent updates on a rapidly break­ing and dynamic story. You know — as more facts become avail­able, they get filled in.

    July 12th WAS Wednes­day. Wednes­day is the day the attacks occurred — right? The first report was pub­lished before the god damned sun was up. I can’t believe the Israeli PM didn’t have a pre­pared state­ment for the press while he was sleeping.

    Am I miss­ing some­thing? Am I a racist? That must be it…