Saudi Arabia is blaming Hezbollah and its supporters, Iran and Syria, for provoking the Israeli attacks on the militant group’s strongholds in Lebanon, according to a statement posted on the Saudi Embassy Web site.
Although the statement does not specifically name Hezbollah or the governments in Damascus and Tehran, the message is a clear diplomatic denunciation of the group and its state sponsors.
So much for pan-Arab unity.
IAF foils rocket transports from Syria
Although Hizbullah has suffered a harsh blow from Israeli air force strikes…Syria was continuing to smuggle arms into Lebanon to rearm the group, IDF Operations Branch Head Major General Gadi Eisenkot said during a press briefing Tuesday….the IAF managed to intercept a number of trucks transporting rockets from Syria to Hizbullah, including trucks laden with the 20mm-diameter rockets with warheads like the one that hit the Haifa train depot Monday, claiming eight lives. Maj.-Gen. Eisenkot said he would be very surprised if official elements in Syria were unaware of these transports.
Good shooting by the IAF. The Chief concurs that the Syrian government is in this up to it’s hips, and should be held accountable.
Hizbullah preventing civilians from leaving villages in southern Lebanon
The old “human shield” strategy back again.
Iran’s Hizbollah says ready to attack US, Israel
NOTE: Hezbollah operates out of Iran.
Iran’s Hizbollah, which claims links to the Lebanese group of the same name, said on Tuesday it stood ready to attack Israeli and U.S. interests worldwide. “We have 2,000 volunteers who have registered since last year,” said Iranian Hizbollah’s spokesman Mojtaba Bigdeli, speaking by telephone from the central seminary city of Qom.
We should do all we can to grant them their wish for martyrdom – the sooner, the better.
Hizballah Wants Israel to Free Child-Killer
Among the prisoners that Hezbollah want’s released it this piece of human debris:
The Arab prisoner that Hizballah wants Israel to release in exchange for two abducted Israeli soldiers, is serving multiple life sentences for killing a four-year-old girl with a rifle butt.
Samir Kuntar is one of only two or three Lebanese prisoners still held by Israel, and Hizballah said its July 12 assault is aimed at winning his freedom.
The only liberation this character should get is liberation from life.
United States to Israel: you have one more week to blast Hizbullah
The US is giving Israel a window of a week to inflict maximum damage on Hizbullah before weighing in behind international calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon, according to British, European and Israeli sources.
If we have a “hard” time limit on this operation, it needs to ignored at need by the Israelis. If there is such a thing, it smacks of the typical Rovian/State Dept. weenie sort of approach.