'Israel Will Devastate Lebanon If Tel Aviv Attacked'

[ECH1969]

Israel will retaliate harshly against an attack on Tel Aviv and will destroy the entire infrastructure in Lebanon, according to a highly-positioned IDF officer quoted by Channel One's Mabat news program.

The IDF has restricted bombing attacks in Lebanon to the enforcing a land and sea embargo on Lebanon and to hitting Hizbullah terrorist homes, offices and weapons centers. In the bombings on Beirut, only about one per cent of the Lebanon capital's area has been attacked.

http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=109110

[sabra]

1. Israel warns of consequences of Tel Aviv attack-TV

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03458104.htm

Israel warns of consequences of Tel Aviv attack-TV

JERUSALEM, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Israel will destroy Lebanon's infrastructure if Hizbollah fires rockets at Tel Aviv as Hizbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah threatened on Thursday, a senior Israeli defence source told Channel One television.

"If Tel Aviv is attacked, Lebanese national infrastructure will be destroyed," the state-owned television station said, quoting a senior military source.

Nasrallah, in a taped television message, had said his guerrillas would fire rockets at Tel Aviv, if Israel attacked central Beirut.

[LiberalVoice]

32. So there you go.

Israel exclaims outright that if Hizballah attacks Tel-Aviv the entire LEbanese infrastructure will be destroyed. I wonder what would happen if the Lebanese threatened to break international humanitarian rights laws? Fucking POS hypocrites.

[saigon68]

66. I wonder if they will use Nukes

Or just put everyone in Barb wire camps, with little or no food?

Or just make all the middle east-- LOOK LIKE THIS

[hoboken123]

106. Yeah, that makes sense

Repeatedly invaded by superior forces, yet they've never used nukes.

But now? Of course.

[xultar]

2. Buhwawawawawawawawawawa! Is there anything left they haven't bombed?

[doubleplusgood]

43. they'll make the rubble bounce twice

they'll make the rubble bounce twice (to borrow a quote from Churchill)

[Ghost Dog]

55. At some points, so it seems:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5992081,00.html

-In the first air raids on Beirut in almost a week, witnesses said at least four missiles hit the southern suburb of Dahieh, a Shiite Muslim area repeatedly shelled by Israel. Lebanese television said the attacks targeted a Hezbollah compound that includes a center for religious teaching. The compound already was damaged by earlier raids.

[truth2power]

118. You beat me to it, Xultar. Bwahaha.

I didn't want to seem to be making light of the horror that Israel is inflicting on Lebanon, but I'll admit, my first reaction to the OP was to laugh.

That crafty Olmert is going to "destroy the entire infrastructure of Lebanon"? This whole Israeli operation has progressed past terror into absolute FARCE!

Another week of this disgusting display of "self-defense" and there wil be no reason for Hezbollah NOT to hit Tel Aviv. You reap what you sow.

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[IndianaGreen]

7. But they are barbarians in the way they have attacked Lebanon

They care as much for innocent civilians as the Germans did during the Second World War.

[iconoclastic cat]

4. Massive aerial bombing campaign.

Hmmm...when has that occurred elsewhere in history? Let me think...

[saigon68]

68. THIS IS BEIRUT ON DRUGS--- ANY QUESTIONS ?

[David__77]

5. War crimes, nothing else.

They are seriously sounding like the Nazis with such talk. It's terrorist talk. This is an outlaw state.

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[sabra]

8. "Right now I hope Tel Aviv gets it's dues."

wow

[IndianaGreen]

12. Violence begets violence

and we have been screaming for a ceasefire while Bush, Blair, and Olmert oppose it.

It's decision time! Ceasefire or holocaust? Insanity or reason?

We better let our political leaders know that we are about to lose the entire enchilada unless someone stops this carnage.

[wakeme2008]

19. Sad to say Bush, Blair, and Olmert do not care

what happens to the Israel ppl.... They have their war they wanted

[IndianaGreen]

22. We are reaching the point beyond which no one will be able to stop war

and that is a very dangerous situation in which we find ourselves.

[Seabiscuit]

85. I put the exact same words into a post last week and I got jumped on

by a mod who, I think, was trying to prove me wrong about something.

I'll say it again: Violence begets violence.

[midnight armadillo]

23. let's be fair here

Israel claims it's the fault of the Lebanese for tolerating Hezbollah, therefore they're legit targets (i.e. anyone left after leafletting is implicit a Hezbollah supporter). So, the Lebanese can claim any Israeli is a legit target for tolerating and voting for the war mongers leveling Lebanon.

I think a large portion of the Middle East population, Jew, Muslim, Christian, whomever, would not know what to do with themselves if peace and diplomacy broke out in the region.

[dogfacedboy]

81. I have always believed

that there is some sort of inherent/cultural mental illness that runs rampant in the Middle East. A fellow employee of mine, who emigrated from Jordan, believes the same thing. That is why he left.

[Karenina]

116. I agree!

:toast:

[The Stranger]

33. "Wow" because Tel Aviv has never been bombed?

Or has it?

[sabra]

34. "wow", that a I would see a statement like that on this site.

[villager]

36. the hypocrisy of many alleged "peace loving" DUers has been staggering...

...of late...

[Zhade]

30. But quite a large percentage of Israelis DIDN'T vote for this...

...and don't support it.

You can't make a comment like that without realizing it must be applied to us, here, or you're setting up a double standard.

I don't think even those Israelis blinded by nationalism or fearful enough to vote for the rightwing Israeli government should die for that, any more than I think the Lebanese should die for their accepting Hezbollah charity.

The deaths should stop on all sides, because it's accomplishing absolutely nothing worthwhile.

[last1standing]

60. Exactly!

Every "Israel is always right" fanatic and every "Israel is always wrong" nut-job on this site is just egging on the carnage and falls right into the trap of the bush* administration which wants a full scale Armageddon in the Middle East.

To all the extremists at DU today I have to ask, how many Muslims and how many Jews have to die before you realize that the people in charge of this war don't give a damn about Allah or Jehovah? Their only God is Power.

[wellst0nev0ter]

9. So They're Gonna Bomb American University? (n/t)

[Zhade]

10. Don't they mean, devastate again?

What, are they going to bomb the rubble and murder even more innocent Lebanese?

EDIT: "The IDF has restricted bombing attacks in Lebanon..." - LIE.

[enid602]

11. Israel

Poor Israel is being goaded into escalated warfare, at a time when the US is broke and over-extended, and the EU is against them. Can't they see what they're getting themselved into? Do they think they have such an advantage as to stand up to 1 billion + Arabs who also happen to have all the oil?

[IndianaGreen]

15. General Curtis LeMay has been reincarnated in the IDF

there is no shortage of insane generals that would not flinch in destroying the planet.

[neoblues]

67. That's a key point... they have all the oil...

and between IRAQ and IRAN and Saudi Arabia... that's most of it--and Saudi is way past it's prime. And if we let IRAQ fall to pieces and we walk out on them... Ahmedinehjhad will make them Western IRAN in a heartbeat. IRAN has been behind most of our greatest problems in the world, at least in the middle east and with them controlling the world's remaining oil supplies...

We can't leave IRAQ. Does anybody realize this? Am I insane?

[enid602]

73. Iraq

We've already lost Iraq. It will be 3 countries, and the one with most of the oil (the Si'ite portion) will ally itself with Iran to make the world's largest oil producer. We did this. We bought and paid for it.

[The Deacon]

13. Okay

Fuckit - I'm digging a bomb shelter out back. Anyone care to join me? I have enough MREs, canned tuna, Vienna Sausages, Underwood Devilled Ham, bottled water & power bars to last four people for three weeks (I live near Hurricane Alley.) I have a wife & child so there's one spot left - first person who can sing all the verses of "Thunder Road" or "Born in the USA" (the real Springsteen version, not the Reagan/Bush ripoff) gets it!

[midnight armadillo]

25. How about Dylan?

Would "Masters of War" get me a slot ;-)?

[The Deacon]

Only If You Can Do It Without His Nasal Twang

But "Blowin' In The Wind" might be a better choice - what with Hurricane Season fully here and all...

[Wednesdays]

99. I'm on my way...

even if there are no bombs falling, I gotta get some of that Deviled Ham! :)

[Lerkfish]

14. aren't they going to do this anyway?

I see no indication they will not.

[lovuian]

16. This is WWIII make no mistake about it

israel knows its fighting for its life...I just hope we are all ready for whats about to take place ...This will stop ...

[The Deacon]

20. "Fighting For Its Life"?

Anything Iran/Hezbollah has that can make it to Tel Aviv will have a warhead about the size of a popcorn fart. How does this threaten Israel's existence?

[lovuian]

24. A nuclear bomb direct hit to TelAviv would destroy Israel

They are fighting for their lifes...

[endarkenment]

26. Why would Israel nuke Tel Aviv?

As the only nuclear nation in the region I just can't imagine their motivation.

[malaise]

101. Ouch!!

You know!

[Zhade]

38. Um, Israel is the only nuclear-armed country in the Middle East.

So what exactly is Tel Aviv going to get nuked with, one they send out that accidentally returns to sender?

Jesus, you don't even know they're the only ones with nukes! Please, learn something about the region before you make yourself look silly.

[lovuian]

44. Uhmmm I hope you are both right but if Iran gets a nuke from

Pakistan or Korea...

so believe me I hope you both are right because if your not thats the Israel nation poof gone

Its paranoia thats driving it and thats sad...

[Zhade]

52. Do you honestly think the Iranian government is suicidal?

If you believe such a nonsensical bit of irrationality, our conversation can't continue until you realize that, like all rulers, they want to live out long full lives fat and happy.

With that, it should be apparent that their nuking Israel would be signing their death warrant. Knowing the usual trend of theocrats historically being as tied to material comfort and wealth as they are to their religious ideals (see Popes during the Crusades, for example), I think it's safe to conclude the Iranian government isn't ready to leave this planet.

[lovuian]

90. I think Iran is fighting for its life too... because its neighbor

Iraq was invaded by America for the premise of developing WMD which they are in the process doing...

So yes Iran is suicidal ... Paranoid schizoid... as well as America and Israel

This is a sick civilization

Fear is the mindkiller

[LostinVA]

53. No one is going to nuke Israel

And, why are you talking about IRAN??? Bought into the RW spin or something??? I thought it was Hezbollah whom the Israels were supposedly targeting, even though they are actually targeting Lebanon and its civilians.

[Ghost Dog]

61. Well, that would likely be the whole of Palestine poof, gone,

and probably a lot of the Lebanon and Jordan and Syria and other points downwind sorely hurt...

But in one sense you're right: Such an all-out attack on the Muslim world could very easily provoke the overthrow of the US-UK-friendly unelected Pakistani President Musharraf with, let's say, not entirely unpredictable possible consequences...

[LostinVA]

39. Why would Israel nuke herself?

[lovuian]

47. Iran would nuke Israel

:nuke: As well as Israel bombing Iran :nuke:

Its a no win situation Stalemate & disaster

Its not logical its religious...its paranoia

[Zhade]

50. With WHAT, precursor materials?

IRAN. DOES. NOT. HAVE. NUKES.

For fuck's sake, get informed. Spreading untruths like this one do us no good. At BEST, Iran MIGHT have a nuke in about TEN YEARS.

[LostinVA]

54. MAYBE ten years

[neoblues]

63. It didn't take us 10 years...

and we had to make the nuclear reactors to and figure every last detail out from scratch; it shouldn't take them more than five years tops if they make a concerted effort.

[daleo]

84. That was an all-out war effort during WWII

With the world's most eminent scientists, incredible amounts of money, fantastic amounts of electricity, etc. It is not a good comparison.

On the other hand, the design of a nuclear weapon is quite well known now, so it might not take Iran all that long. For all we know, Pakistan has already "lent them" a bomb or two. Invading Iran would be a gamble in all sorts of ways.

[neoblues]

102. And...

They already have nuclear reactors, and modern technology is off-the-shelf available these days including high explosives and compact detonators and microelectronics. The "bomb" just isn't that hard for a nation-state to pull off (and who's to say they don't have connections with Pakistan for the right $$$).

So too, they already have modest missile technology, if they can buy some guidance technology, plans or expertise, add another five years and... ouch (even before that, regionally, ouch).

[daleo]

104. They don't have reactors to make plutonium

So they would have to use a uranium core. Enriching uranium is time consuming, and very technical, involving lots of finicky centrifuges. But all things are possible if a population is sufficiently well educated, motivated, and has the resources.

I don't doubt Iran will eventually get a bomb. I don't worry about it much - plenty of countries have the bomb and we are still here. I don't agree with the "mad Iranians will commit national suicide to get rid of the Jews" theory. I grew up hearing "mad Red Chinese will nuke us all to get rid of capitalism", same for "mad Russians". Then it was "crazy Indians who don't care about death because they believe in reincarnation", etc.

People will just have to learn to get along, because nuclear weapons are bound to continue proliferating. Bush guaranteed that when he invaded Iraq.

[LostinVA]

110. 10-20 years, IF they get everything they need

We are talking Iran. Not the US, or the UK, or even Israel.

[lovuian]

65. Hey Guys and gals I hope you are all right... You know

what iran has. You know what Hezbohlah has. You know what Syria has



Its too bad Israel doesn't know this... because Israel is paranoid about this

Everybody knows what israel has...:nukes:and lots of them but the joke is if they nuke they will feel the consequences as well as Iran feels the consequences

The Dalai Llama spoke true wisdom when he said Globilization is knowing that what happens in one country effects the whole world and us... Nukes are not the answer I hope that little fact is figured out but evidentally its not...It is a fact... no war will be won by nuclear bombs ...

You all bring up excellent points if they nuke everybody is devastated... I just worry about dealing logically with people who strap on bombs and die for 41 virgins...

I hope Israel knows what its doing??? I personally don't agree with it but I understand the sick psychology here of paranoia

and what hangs over the israeli people is passively walking into furnaces... THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN EVER AGAIN... Israel is not Pro passive its Pro active...

If they die they'll die fighting

just laying it all out there

[endarkenment]

86. "dealing logically with people who strap on bombs and die for 41 virgins"

You've bought the whole line.

Do some research on the motivation of suicide bombers. While some are religious fanatics, in general the suicide bomber is not a religious fanatic. Instead it seems that suicide attacks are most likely used by people living under a military occupation where they have no other means available to strike effectively against the occupying nation. Rather than irrational fanaticism the suicide bomber is acting out of a rational desperation in the only way that he or she sees as effective.

"The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
ROBERT A. PAPE The University of Chicago
Suicide terrorism is rising around the world, but the most common explanations do not help us
understand why. Religious fanaticism does not explain why the world leader in suicide terrorism is
the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, a group that adheres to a Marxist/Leninist ideology, while existing
psychological explanations have been contradicted by the widening range of socio-economic backgrounds
of suicide terrorists. To advance our understanding of this growing phenomenon, this study collects the
universe of suicide terrorist attacks worldwide from 1980 to 2001, 187 in all. In contrast to the existing
explanations, this study shows that suicide terrorism follows a strategic logic, one specifically designed
to coerce modern liberal democracies to make significant territorial concessions. Moreover, over the past
two decades, suicide terrorism has been rising largely because terrorists have learned that it pays. Suicide
terrorists sought to compel American and French military forces to abandon Lebanon in 1983, Israeli
forces to leave Lebanon in 1985, Israeli forces to quit the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in 1994 and
1995, the Sri Lankan government to create an independent Tamil state from 1990 on, and the Turkish
government to grant autonomy to the Kurds in the late 1990s. In all but the case of Turkey, the terrorist
political cause made more gains after the resort to suicide operations than it had before. Thus, Western
democracies should pursue policies that teach terrorists that the lesson of the 1980s and 1990s no longer
holds, policies which in practice may have more to do with improving homeland security than with
offensive military action."


http://www.danieldrezner.com/research/guest/Pape1.pdf

[lovuian]

95. Suicide Bombers "rational desperation"

I agree their people who feel DESPERATE without HOPE ... the only power they have over their life is the ability to choose when they die...

But make no mistake its REVENGE, ANGER, and no respect for human life act also. They definitely believe they will be a hero...its their way of going out in a blaze of glory... Its a act of a warrior...
Self Sacrifice ...

This is one very sad person which means a very dangerous person also...

would you agree that maybe in their sick mind this may look like a logical reason

but lets face it

very sad civilization we live in...

[Ghost Dog]

97. passively walking into furnaces... THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN EVER AGAIN

This absolutely not. No people on this Earth. :thumbsup:

Please don't wish the same upon others, that's all.

[LostinVA]

51. Iran doesn't have nuclear capabilities

Israel is the only nuclear nation in teh entire region... so I guess they'll be nuking themselves, if we go by what you're suggesting.

[lovuian]

69. Its working on it and after repeatedly being asked to stop

they haven't...They want nuclear bombs They want to be like Pakistan ... nuclear

Just nobody wants them to have them...So what does Israel do wait??? Thats not their style

They bombed Iraq facilities...

Israel has an agenda just Lebanon is in the middle of it...

This is all about Iran and its oil and its wanting nukes and its leader not being controlled by Bush

and the Powers to be...they were suppose to take over Iraq and Bush completely made a mess out of it...
The PNAC plan continues on... Its a sick society that controls the Earth in a time when they should be working together ...The Earth will eventually take care of the problem...and when she's ticked stand back and theres no place to run and hide either...

We are ALL connected OOO

[armin]

96. coz shes so damned ugly and she knows it

one of those self hating chicks doncha know:eyes:

[LiberalVoice]

46. What?

And who exactly is going to nuke Israel? :eyes:

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[megatherium]

64. Israel's nukes are not illegal. They are not signatories to the NPT. nt

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[Minstrel Boy]

42. There's a nice answer to that in Ha'aretz yesterday:

"Moreover, the ordinary citizen is asking himself another question: If several thousand guerrilla fighters do constitute an existential danger to a country with a strike force and weaponry that are unparalleled in this part of the world, how is it that during the past five or six years we heard nothing to that effect from government leaders?"

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/745313.html

pretext, pretext, pretext

[LiberalVoice]

45. Funny I thought it was Lebanon...

Israel is certainly in no threat of being destroyed. Its Lebanon whos fighting for its life now. The Israeli government has vowed to level the infrstructure in Lebanon should Hizballah attack Tel-Aviv. So I would say thery are the ones in danger.

[lovuian]

76. Well then Tel a Viv is safe and there are no worries

but if Lebanon or Hezbohlah hit Telaviv well then somebody is shooting at Israel...

[LiberalVoice]

113. I dont understand your post nt

[theanarch]

78. all this "Israel fighting for its life..." BS...

...is just the latest escalation of paranoid rhetoric from the Likud/Kadima media echo-chamber; Olmert blundered into a one-sided "war" that has so far proven to be an unmitigated disaster for Israel (militarily, financially, politically AND diplomaticly)...vague,undefined, changing-every-day goals; no contingency planning; absolutely no discussion regarding possible consequences (any of this sound familiar?); etc...and pro-war, pro-government talking heads ratcheting up the polemical looniness with each frustration and set-back. Israel has the world's fourth largest army, complete with a navy, an air force, heavy artillery, main battle tanks, cruise missiles and fully-motorized divisions with several hundred thousand soldiers (regular army and reserves). Hezbollah has (according to the IDF) about 2,000 soldiers (of whom the IDF claims to have killed, uh, 2,000); they are primarily armed with automatic rifles, a few medium machine guns, RPG's, and light (unguided) rockets...no planes/attack helicopters, no tanks, no heavy artillery, no cruise missiles, no mechanized units...how anyone in their right (as distinct from Far Right) mind can conflate this home-defense force into a threat serious enough to threaten Israel's very existance is beyond me. If "lovuian" knows how this is possible, i'm ready to hear it. Israel isn't fighting for its "life"; it's fighting for its embarrassed pride, and nothing more...well, okay, maybe for the water and more "elbow room".

[lovuian]

80. Its not what I think that matters here its what Israel thinks

and it thinks its fighting for its life

"well maybe for water"

The Water of LIFE and yes they have got their Springs back which is their water...

More elbow room ... More land...

Hey I said that I think this is a stupid idea but what I meant is israel really believes its fighting for its life here...

these people were tremendously scarred psychologically by WWII

I just feel that Bush is using this fear and Israel is making bad choices... but I do understand the fear these people feel ... Its the same fear instilled by BUSh of WMD in Iraq...

Iran is using FEAR
ISRAEL is using fear
and Bush is using them both

[theanarch]

89. i have to disagree, even in the context you...

...provide: i can't imagine ordinary Israeli's believing this nonsense--they've been through these drills (and much worse) before, and just keep on suriving, expanding, planting new settlements on more occupied land, etc., etc. This is just the propoganda an increasingly desparate regime is feeding the people through the mostly pro-government, pro-war media...no different from the "they hate U.S. for our freedoms/if we don't fight them there..." scare-rhetoric that's shoved down our throats by our mostly pro-government, pro-war M$M.

As for those "scarred psychologically by WWII", i hate to be the one to break the news to you, but WWII ended 61 years ago, and that generation is dying off (same as our "greatest generation"). The typical Israeli of today is the grandchild of the founding generation, and has known nothing but military success (until recently) and relative prosperity all their lives. And while they have to live with the underlying anxiety of unguided rocket attacks and the occasional suicide bomber, their fears of being the victim of someone else's violence is pretty insignificant compared to the same fears that Palestinians and Lebanese have of being victims of Israel's violence.

And: Israel and Iran are both using the propoganda of hate, fear, ignorence and religious self-righteousness; and everyone's trying to manipulate everyone else...some with better success than others, and mostly through no effort of their own.

[Nihil]

117. So if Israel wants it, Israel gets it?

> The Water of LIFE and yes they have got their Springs back which is
> their water...
>
> More elbow room ... More land...

If Israel was a child, it would be a spoilt brat, a fat greedy slug
of a bully - the son of privileged parents who will not hear a harsh
word about their offspring's behaviour but who will lie themselves
blue in the face to defend his name, bribing and threatening the
accusers in turn.

Sometimes the victims fight back. That day is fast arriving.

[Karenina]

82. Tiny Israel

is sure armed to the teeth, eh?

[armin]

98. if you say so...

if israel is fighting for its life, lebanon is already dead and in the gutter... but WHO CARES
tel aviv is just worth that much more than beirut, or the entire lebanese infrastructure for that matter

[endarkenment]

17. INN is Arutz Sheva is Rightwing bullshit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arutz_Sheva

Please do not source this site.

[sabra]

18. reuters has the quote up too

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2433678#2433685

[endarkenment]

21. That's fine.

my complaint is not the veracity it is the source. The op might as well have linked drudge or newsmax.

[sabra]

35. I see, makes sense.

[Bretttido]

41. It has sick adds, thats for sure

I was presented with a "lovely" ad when clicking on the link that said, "Preventing, Treating Homosexuality"

[endarkenment]

71. Which is my point.

This is like posting links to drudge or newsmax, it ought to be not allowed.

[Bretttido]

72. No argument here

[Ghost Dog]

100. I think it should be ok to post such links, occasionaly,

providing explanation and context, just so as to be able to point to the sickness that's to be found out there.

[Snivi Yllom]

27. obvious, but it's foolish to posture w/ statements like that

It's exactly what hezbollah wants. In fact, Nasrallah would love to have Beirut leveled to the ground so he can waltz in among the chaos.

[manic expression]

28. More than they have already?

IDF are a bunch of jackbooted thugs. They are drooling at the prospect of getting an excuse to murder more Lebanese people.

[The Stranger]

29. Escalation. Great.

How much better can it get?

[ckramer]

31. That means more cilvilians will be killed

Israel is doomed by the new leader in a few months. How stupid!

[Karmakaze]

40. Amazing! ONLY 1 percent???

How did they contain themselves?? I mean they could have bombed 10 or 20 percent of Beirut, but NO! They made sure to bomb no more than 1 percent! How considerate of them!

[KamaAina]

103. More propaganda from the right-wing source

most of the areas that have been rubbled lie adjacent to, but just outside Beirut proper, and so they apparently don't count. :sarcasm:

[Rex]

48. '...entire infrastructure in Lebanon...'

When I said a week ago, Israel will flatten Lebanon I wasn't kidding. Of course Hezbollah will fire rockets into Tel Aviv. Just to piss off Israel and recruit more people into Hezbollah, IMO.

[Az_lefty]

49. 9th of Av

& the rapture-ready crowd is licking their blood thirsty lips.
:hide:

[daleo]

56. Hezbollah leader offers ceasefire, but threatens Tel Aviv

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said his militant group will stop firing rockets on Israeli cities if Israel stops its attacks on Lebanese towns.

"You attack our cities, villages, civilians and our capital, we will react," he said in a televised speech. "Anytime you decide to stop your campaign against our cities, villages, civilians and infrastructure, we will not fire rockets on any Israeli settlement or city."

But he also threatened to fire rockets at Tel Aviv if central Beirut is attacked. Israeli warplanes have hit Hezbollah strongholds in southern Beirut suburbs repeatedly.

"If you strike Beirut, the Islamic Resistance will strike Tel Aviv and it is able to do so," Nasrallah said.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/08/03/mideast-fighting.html

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I don't think the part about the ceasefire offer got much play elsewhere

[Tom Joad]

57. Perhaps they could do what Israel did... give everyone in Tel Aviv

48 hours to leave their homes, and then bomb away.

Or perhaps we should support Kucinich and others proposal for an immediate cease-fire, even if israel has not had a chance to "win", even if it will not make the warlords of Israel happy. I support this alternative.

[GAPeace]

58. We should support Kucinich -- and McKinney

If McKinney is thrown out by the coalition of Israeli and conservative groups that have rallied throughout the state for her opponent, then we can be sure that the small minority of believers in Palestinian rights in our Congress will be narrowed even further.

[Rex]

59. Perhaps we should demand Dennis be the man in 2008.

I love Wes Clark, but DK will ALWAYS be my choice for POTUS.

[bvar22]

87. Hezbollah true to its word here.

The number of rocket attacks from Lebanon have been in direct porportion and response to the bombing attacks by Isreal.

[BillZBubb]

62. More proof that Israel is a terror state. "Devastate Lebanon"...

They will inflict even more pain on innocent Lebanese if the Hezbollah minority does something--something the Lebanese have no control over.

Israel has become an abomination.

[Tom Joad]

75. Why did Israel start the bombing in the first place? Why didn't it just

negotiate for its captured soldiers?

[Bjornsdotter]

107. My thoughts also

That's the part I just can't wrap my head around...I just don't get it.

Cheers

[saigon68]

70. FEEL THE LOVE

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[lovuian]

77. I agree its a done deal thats what the word Escallation means

and Syria is next...

[Jacobin]

79. Well, that pretty much seals the NeoCon deal then, doesn't it

:cry:

I hope all these 'holy warriors' enjoy their carnage. I'm not looking forward to the expansion of these hostilities to the rest of the world which looks planned, to me.

[warrens]

88. Perhaps he ought to look at those NY Times satellite photos

Looks like most of the infrastructure is already gone to me.

[6000eliot]

91. And get exactly what they wanted all along.

If they can draw Syria and Iran into it, then the neocons in this country get what they want as well.

[2020]

92. Yes, Lebanon is too weak to restrain Hezbollah. Let's weaken it even more!

Not unlike what Likud thinking has done to the Palestinians over the years.

[Barkley]

111. You're right on the money 2020!

A weak Lebanon will justify a extended Israeli military occupation.

In the mean time, Hizbollah's resistance is going on week 4.

[aquart]

93. Why does Hezbollah have bombs?

Where are they keeping these bombs?

[2020]

105. They don't. They have rockets. They store them underground.

Their bunkers are generally impervious to Israeli bombs.

[aquart]

109. Why do they have rockets?

[eridani]

112. To defend themselves against Israel

Though, given that they can't possibly be effective for that purpose, probably just to make their conquerers enjoy their conquest less than they might have otherwise.

[AnOhioan]

94. Check out the satellite photos in.....

this thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1811927&mesg_id=1811927

[w4rma]

108. Whackjobs. (nt)

[magellan]

114. There seems little chance

...that the bastards on either side will be convinced to put their dicks back in their pants and call it even before a lot more children die.

[western mass]

115. Refreshing that Isreal finally openly admits to war crime behavior.

Collective punishment at its finest.

Why not just line up Lebanese villagers and kill every tenth person?