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| Israel would destroy Hezbollah in war: general |
| 2008-10-04 |
| Israel would use "disproportionate" force to destroy Lebanese villages from which Hezbollah's group fired rockets at its cities in any future war, an Israeli general said in remarks published on Friday. "What happened in the Dahiya quarter of Beirut in 2006 will happen in every village from which Israel is fired on," said Gadi Eisenkot, head of the army's northern division. Dahiya was a Hezbollah stronghold that Israel flattened in sustained air raids during a 34-day war with the Shiite group two years ago. "We will apply disproportionate force on it (village) and cause great damage and destruction there. From our standpoint, these are not civilian villages, they are military bases," Eisenkot told the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. Some 1,200 Lebanese civilians and 159 Israel soldiers were killed during the war. Eisenkot rejected accusations that Israel was violating a U.N.-brokered ceasefire by sending aircraft on reconnaissance flights over Lebanon, saying the aerial missions were necessary given that Iran and Syria continue to arm Hezbollah in breach of the U.N. truce. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 So when you admit it, you are telling the villagers not to let Hezbollah hide there or you wil l die with them. You are also telling Hezbollah that if they want massive civilian casualities they should spread their rockets around. Perhaps starting the offensive from a van in the middle of a village that isn't friendly to Hezbollah so that it gets tarred by retaliation. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-10-04 21:45 |
| #10 If I were Israel, I'd begin looking into converting a Boeing 737 or 757 into a manned bomber, so I could really SEED an area with as few flights as possible. I don't think there's a functionally-specific bomber aircraft that would do for the Israelis, but they need a heavy load hauler that can speak with a deep voice in dealing with Arabs. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-10-04 21:22 |
| #9 Just be certain to smash the BBC roving propaganda crews at the same time as the villages. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-10-04 15:43 |
| #8 sounds more like a feature than a bug... |
| Posted by: Abu do you love 2008-10-04 13:26 |
| #7 That would be an unmitigated disaster. Southern Lebanon is Shi'a, and all such a plan would do is guarantee lots of bloodshed and casualties. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-10-04 12:39 |
| #6 Israel is great at "smashing seashells on the beach" after the tide has rolled out, but they never erect a sea wall to keep the tide from rolling back in again. If they had some wit about them, they would make a deal with Egypt, so that after Israel had thumped Hezbollah, Egypt would send a very large, Sunni "peacekeeping" unit into Lebanon to insure Lebanon remained peaceful. They might even convince the Saudis to pay for it. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-10-04 09:43 |
| #5 Let's hope this time Israel means it. With Olmert gone, there is at least the possibility they really do. |
| Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-10-04 08:14 |
| #4 "Israel would destroy Hezbollah in war" Faster please. |
| Posted by: Ulusoling Hatfield4645 2008-10-04 07:40 |
| #3 Or maybe they like the leash? Sooooo Victorian. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-10-04 06:54 |
| #2 LOL like they did the last 2 times. Israel needs to man up a little. Or maybe they like the leash? Eh Grom? Leash gives a little wiggle room for fear maybe? Intellectual room to blame every thing on a certain Ms. Rice and BushItler? A way to look past the absolute collapse of IDF deterance - in the name of armed purity. Jeeebus (c wut I did thar?) give it a break and get back to work. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-10-04 06:30 |
| #1 A phone call from Miss Rice in 5..4..3 |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-10-04 05:51 |