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| Hezbollah weapons rights draw Israel ire |
| 2009-12-08 |
| Tel Aviv has warned that it will hold Beirut responsible for any Hezbollah attempt against Israel after Lebanon endorsed a bill allowing the movement to keep its arms. "The Lebanese government and Hezbollah are becoming entwined and they will bear responsibility for any attack against Israel," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday. "Hezbollah is today the real Lebanese army and it has replaced Lebanon's army as the dominant force by arming and organizing itself as a full-fledged military," he added. After a unity government that included Hezbollah was formed, Lebanon's cabinet adopted a policy statement granting the movement the right to keep its arms. Israel, however, has expressed concerned over the move, saying it is the violation of the UN Security Council Resolution 1701. "Resolution 1701, as an international agreement aimed at preventing Hezbollah's rearmament, has totally failed. The number of rockets Hezbollah possesses today is much larger" than before the 33-day war, the premier said. The regime had formerly voiced concern over the movement's military possesses, saying it is capable of putting the main cities of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Al-Quds in range of its rockets. Israel fought the 33-day war to destroy Hezbollah's military power but eventually left southern Lebanon without achieving any of its objectives. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Admittedly, it would be great fun to force them to deal exclusively in Yiddish, only to find the only people they'd be able to talk to would be a few ancient Holocaust survivors and the residents of a few ultra-orthodox Jewish enclaves in New York City and Toronto... and no doubt a few other places I'm not aware of. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-12-08 22:41 |
| #5 Sorry TW fingers got ahead of my brain on that one. I knew it wasn't Yiddish but my fingers already flew past. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-12-08 20:34 |
| #4 I think you mean Hebrew, Redneck Jim. The Jews switched over from Yiddish in the 1920s or '30s, as I recall. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-12-08 15:22 |
| #3 Regarding Lebanon's actions, can you speak Yiddish? you better learn it. It'll be your new national language if You don't behave and leave Israel alone. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-12-08 12:49 |
| #2 Any country that allows some military organization sponsored by a foreign country to be "legal" INSIDE their own sovereignty...is no country. Pure and simple. Lebanon doesnt exist. They deserve what happens to them. They dont have a Country, they pussed it away. If they dont have the balls to protect their sovereignty they get the sweet f8ckall. And that's it for those Chuckies. If you come home and Hizbollah is in bed with your wife...you either kick him out minus his cods and hang the wife from the ceiling fan or you dont have a home. You can always get another wife. Sovereignty is or it isnt. Lebanon's flag is a whore on its knees. Some things you dont "share". |
| Posted by: Angleton9 2009-12-08 05:54 |
| #1 F*ck ire, how about some artillery fire? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-12-08 04:02 |