Hezbollah official discusses blockade

[maddezmom]

BEIRUT, Lebanon - A Hezbollah Cabinet minister on Tuesday said the government may attempt to break the Israeli naval and air blockade of Lebanon by calling on ships and aircraft to travel to Lebanese ports without prior Israeli approval.

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The Lebanese government has condemned the Israeli blockade, saying it violates the U.N. cease-fire resolution, and the Lebanese foreign minister Tuesday called on the international community to force Israel to end it. The Cabinet met Monday and called the siege one of Israel's "terrorist practices."

"Entry to Lebanon by sea and from air is a matter of sovereignty," Labor Minister Tarrad Hamadeh said on Hezbollah television. Hamadeh, one of two Hezbollah Cabinet ministers, said the Lebanese "must have be free to enter their country at will. We cannot accept the siege and blackmail."

Israel imposed a sea, land and air blockade of Lebanon shortly after its offensive against Hezbollah began on July 12. Israeli warplanes have attacked seaports and intercepted ships during the war, allowing the arrival of only those that apply for and are granted permission.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060822/ap_on_re_mi_ea/lebanon_israel

[mom cat]

1. These blockades are totally illegal.

[Tellurian]

2. Wait until Israel finds out the initial kidnapping incident

was concocted in the Bush WH by Baker and Rumsfeld.
Rumsfeld's comment: "well now we have the Israelis as our stalking horse!"

These two nations are blinded to the inside manipulations of the Bush WH.

It can't be too soon for them to realize they've been used to further WH ambitions!

[Fountain79]

4. Any proof of that? n/t

[Tellurian]

6. Read here-

Read this thread and scroll down to #11

..then you figure it out, bearing in mind what you already know to be true.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=229944

[Tellurian]

8. In case you overlooked the related article:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0609.dre...

[zreosumgame]

5. no worries

Israels hard-liners will just toss more billions of OUR money at public relations firms so they can 'catapult the propaganda'...

[FlavaKreemSnak]

3. I don't think any countries are going to do that

If they did we and Israel would say they were terrorists and they would have to be punished so all the countries would be scared to.

[MisterP]

7. Corellian Corvette blockade runners?