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| Syria threatens to join fight, Ahmadinejad: Israel pushed button of its own destruction | |
| 2006-07-23 | |
MADRID - Syria will enter the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah if Israel Defense Forces ground troops enter Lebanon and approach Syria, Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal said in an interview published on Sunday. "If Israel invades Lebanon over ground and comes near to us, Syria will not sit tight. She will join the conflict," he told "ABC" newspaper.
Asked for Israel's reaction, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said: "Qatar is a country that we have met in the past ... If Qatar is working behind the scenes to secure the release of the hostages, that is a good thing." Qatar and European countries have criticized Israel's offensive while the United States, Israel's closest ally, has resisted growing calls for a ceasefire and joined Israel in blaming the Iranian-backed Hezbollah for the crisis. Ahmadinejad: Israel pushed button of its own destruction Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadeinejad declared Sunday that Israel had "pushed the button of its own destruction" by launching its military campaign against Hezbollah militia in Lebanon. Ahmadinejad didn't elaborate, but suggested that Islamic nations and others could somehow isolate Israel and its main backers, led by the United States. On Saturday, the chairman of Iran's armed forced joint chiefs, Major General Sayyed Hassan Firuzabadi, said Iran would never join the current Middle East fighting. "Britain and the United States are accomplices of the Zionist regime in its crimes in Lebanon and Palestine," Ahmadinejad said. He said "the people of the region will respond" unless Israel and its allies apologize for their policies. "Arrogant powers have set up a base for themselves to threaten and plunder nations in the region," he said. "But today, the occupier regime [Israel] - whose philosophy is based on threats, massacre and invasion - has reached its finishing line." In Tehran, the government has sanctioned billboards showing Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah and a message that it is the duty of Muslims to "wipe out" Israel. | |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #9 I see no reason to think Iran does NOT have nukes. What happens if they manage to deliver a nuclear-armed missile to HezbAllah to launch for detonation somewhere over Israel? Israeli defense is critically high-tech; is it sufficiently hardened to survive the EMP? One presumes their ballistic missiles are, but where do they target them? One presumes Iran would have been the supplier of HA nuke, but one can probably not be sure it was not Pakistan, or North Korea, or some part of the former Soviet Union. Regardless, I fear whatever Israel does will be a last dying gasp as the Muslim world unites to invade all the unirradiated remnants of Israel. I think Ahmanutjob would do it even if he KNEW Iran would get nuked back. That is why I cannot understand Europe's (including Russia's) refusal to cooperate in trying to keep Iran out of the nuclear fraternity these many years. Are they so anti-Semitic they really think they are better off being the last ones eaten by the crocodile? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2006-07-23 20:43 |
| #8 Ahmadinejad: Israel pushed button of its own destruction "See, mindless drones, it's all Israel's fault. Seethe and kill at will, as long as you don't pay any attention to your government's shortcomings. After they're gone, we're gonna have to come up with someone else to hate. Any ideas, anyone?" |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-07-23 18:55 |
| #7 Allan, meet my friend MOAB. |
| Posted by: Spike 2006-07-23 17:13 |
| #6 I gather the Sunni/Shitte split in Qatar is pretty even, with their even being two religious court systems. Their population is split with 40% being Arab, 10% Iranian, and the other 50%, other. They probably suspect that this is turning into a Sunni/Shiite fight, and that's something they don't want. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-07-23 16:42 |
| #5 LOL! Perfesser |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2006-07-23 16:23 |
| #4 I thought I recognized that character. |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2006-07-23 16:18 |
| #3 If you cross this line, & I'm gonna....Ok, cross this line & I'm gonna...Ok, this line & I'm gonna.... |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2006-07-23 16:06 |
| #2 And he's in for a very big surprise. Aug 22 is only dinnerjackets date - fun comes sooner. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-07-23 16:00 |
| #1 It sounds like Iran is trying to get Syria and Israel to fight each other. Get the other dogs to fight so you can take over as pack leader. |
| Posted by: Chereger Anginens2197 2006-07-23 15:48 |