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| Lebanon's Hezbollah Zinger |
| 2007-02-11 |
Writing in the aftermath of the July War between Hezbollah and Israel, and the passage of resolution 1701 by the Security Council this past August, this writer opined the following: "Â… Nasrallah said on Monday that the Lebanese Army is "incapable" of defending the south, and he sure would love to put this theory to the test. Cornered as he is between international pressure and a weak Lebanese government still trying to provide him with a fig leaf, Nasrallah might engineer the "incident" needed to create new facts on the ground. Surrounded by a loyal Shiite base and an otherwise subservient Lebanese population, Nasrallah's "victory" might certainly give him the idea that he should be running Lebanon, rather than the Sunni, Druze and Christian weaklings in the Lebanese government and political establishment. That could serve as the platform for his evasion from the international will to disarm him, and he could trigger a confrontation between Hezbollah and the Lebanese Army. Better yet from Nasrallah's perspective, a confrontation between the Lebanese army and Israeli forces would vindicate Nasrallah's qualification of the Lebanese Army as "incapable" and would also ensure the death of resolution 1701"...Faced with a stalemate on his street power grab, he has now gone back to what has worked in the past: Hezbollah is, lest the Lebanese people forget, a "resistance". A Quixotic one, to be sure, against Israeli windmills and American goliaths, but a "resistance" nonetheless that is better at planting road side bombs and shooting from behind Lebanese Shiite women and children than at street revolutions. So to make sure his Lebanese compatriots are reminded that his "resistance" is still fighting the Zionist entity, Hassan Nasrallah's men planted 4 roadside bombs behind the Blue Line over the weekend, even with 15,000 Lebanese troops and another 15,000 UNIFIL troops serving as buffer between Hezbollahland in the south and the Israeli border. Nasrallah's men have even been reported to have taken joy rides late last week along the Israeli-Lebanese border, flying the vomit-colored flag of Hezbollah in the face of Israeli soldiers. And yesterday, the Lebanese Army reportedly shot at Israeli troops who crossed the Blue Line from their side of the border under the pretext of wanting to defuse more similar bombs. Israel also made claims earlier this week that Hezbollah has been rearming with anti-tank missiles and rockets coming in from Syria... Read more at the link... |
| Posted by:Fred |