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Originally posted by Britguy
reply to post by mattpryor
Yeah, Hezbollah are for ever invading Israel. Hezbollah attacks against Israeli targets has always been in response to Israeli aggression and border incursions. Of course, the Israeli owned media machine will always spin it differently, which is why I don't read the corporate stuff any more.
The Israelis just last week rolled tanks up to the border and overflew Lebanese airspace...again! They do this all the time but where is the western media outrage to this provocative incursion into another sovereign state's airspace? If this was happening elsewhere it'd be all over the papers.
Originally posted by mattpryor
reply to post by Britguy
It beggars belief that people living in the civilized world actually support them and vilify the IDF for protecting its citizens (who have only EVER wanted to live in peace and be left the hell alone).
Originally posted by dragonridr
Nothing happens in that country without Hezbollahs permision.Everyone knows if there is a spitball sent across the border they knew about it there in total control.
Originally posted by mrmonsoon
reply to post by dzonatas
No, clearly his simple idea got past you...
He meant that every intrusion/terrorist attack/every rocket that flies from Lebanon to Israel is from the terrorisite group Hezbolla.
And regardless of their lies, please, they know about every one of their terrorist attacks.
The area is also a key source of water for an arid region. Rainwater from the Golan's catchment feeds into the Jordan River. The area provides a third of Israel's water supply.
The land is fertile, with the volcanic soil being used to cultivate vineyards and orchards and to raise cattle. The Golan is also home to Israel's only ski resort.
BBC
Originally posted by mattpryor
Hezbollah's beef with Israel has nothing to do with Lebanon. Lebanon is an independent country and is not at war with Israel. Hezbollah does not represent Lebanese people, it is not sanctioned by the Lebanese government, and is not controlled by the Lebanese government.
Hezbollah's beef with Israel has nothing to do with land. Or water. Or resources. Or resistance. And it has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with Palestinians.
Hezbollah's beef with Israel is very, very simple to understand. Here are two quotes from Hassan Nazrallah, leader of Hezbollah, which hopefully illustrate my point:
Originally posted by mattpryor
reply to post by Britguy
"If they [the Jews] all gather in Israel it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide."
"They [the Jews] are a cancer which is liable to spread at any moment."
Shall I spell it out?
THEY HATE JEWS.
Originally posted by Ignorance Denied
Originally posted by mrmonsoon
reply to post by stumason
Please allow me to assist you with that.
www.israelshallstandforever.org...
In there it gives the reference statement by him and it's source:
article.nationalreview.com...
BTW, here is another quote for the terrorist leader:
" the destruction of Israel, and liberation of Palestine and Jerusalem is the primary principle of Hezbolla.
You have to be F**KING kidding me, are you living in another dimension or something, Hizbollah are the agressers?
If this is your conclusion my friend, then i hope you are standing on the highest building in tel aviv when they bomb the sh*t outta the place.. Israel is like a scurge, and you are one of the flee's on her bollocks!!!!!
Eugene Goodheart asks whether I am familiar with two statements he attributes to Hizbullah’s secretary-general, Sayed Hassan Nasrallah (Letters, 7 September). Goodheart uses the inflammatory quotations to accuse Nasrallah of being ‘an anti-semite with fantasies of genocide’. If I am unfamiliar with the statements, it is because they are in all likelihood fabrications. The first (‘If they [the Jews] all gather in Israel it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide’) was circulated widely on neo-con websites, which give as its original source an article by Badih Chayban in Beirut’s English-language Daily Star on 23 October 2002. It seems that Chayban left the Star three years ago and moved to Washington. The Star’s managing editor writes of Chayban’s article on Nasrallah, that ‘I have faith in neither the accuracy of the translation [from Arabic to English] nor the agenda of the translator [Chayban].’ The editor-in-chief and publisher of the Star, Jamil Mrowe, adds that Chayban was ‘a reporter and briefly local desk sub and certainly did not interview Nasrallah or anyone else.’ The account of Nasrallah’s speech in the Lebanese daily As Safir for the same day makes no reference to any anti-semitic comments. Goodheart’s second quotation – ‘They [the Jews] are a cancer which is liable to spread at any moment’ – comes from the Israeli government’s website at /99hyz. For the record, a Hizbullah spokeswoman, Wafa Hoteit, denies that Nasrallah made either statement.
Source 1 by American Journalist Charles Glass
Charles Glass is an American author, journalist, and broadcaster specializing in the Middle East. He writes regularly for The Spectator, was ABC News chief Middle East correspondent from 1983-93, and has worked as a correspondent for Newsweek and The Observer. His work has appeared in newspapers and magazines, and on television networks, all over the world.
Glass is the author of Tribes With Flags: A Dangerous Passage Through the Chaos of the Middle East (1991) and a collection of essays, Money for Old Rope: Disorderly Compositions (1992). A sequel to Tribes with Flags, called The Tribes Triumphant, was published by Harper Collins in June 2006. His book on the beginning of the American war in Iraq, The Northern Front, was published in October 2006 by Saqi. His most recent book, Americans in Paris (Harper Collins), tells the story of the American citizens who chose to remain in Paris when the Germans occupied the city in 1940. He has received awards from the Overseas Press Club and the Commonwealth and George Foster Peabody Awards. [1]
One of Glass's best known stories was his 1986 interview on the tarmac of Beirut Airport of the crew of TWA Flight 847 after the flight was hijacked. He broke the news that the hijackers had removed the hostages and had hidden them in the suburbs of Beirut, which caused the Reagan administration to abort a rescue attempt that would have failed and led to loss of life at the airport. [2]
Glass himself made headlines in 1987, when he was taken hostage for 62 days in Lebanon by Hezbollah, the Shi'ite Muslim group, becoming in the process the only Western hostage in Lebanon known to have escaped, which he describes in his book, Tribes with Flags.
About Charles Glass