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Hezbollah declares victory after Israel announces troop withdrawal
2006-07-31
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah declared victory on Saturday after Israel announced it was withdrawing its forces from the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbail where Israeli troops found unexpected difficulty in dislodging the guerrilla group from its strongholds.

“The Israelis are ready to halt the aggression because they are afraid of the unknown...”
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev defended the decision to pull troops from Bint Jbeil, saying Israel had never intended to occupy the town, but Nasrallah's quick declaration of victory underscored the propaganda gains Hezbollah is reaping across the Muslim world as it battles Israel to a stalemate. "The Israelis are ready to halt the aggression because they are afraid of the unknown," Nasrallah said in a speech in which he also expressed measured support for the Lebanese government's efforts to reach a peace agreement.
Posted by:Fred

#12  Dump Olmert !
What do they intend to do, go back home for a week and then fight and die for the same piece of dirt again ?
Israel, wake up and attack.Take ground, kill every hezby there and drive the people into refugee camps. Repeat until you run out of hezbies or Lebanon. At that point, replace Lebanon with Syria and repeat the process. Anything else is smoke and baseless rhetoric.
And when the EU comes knockin at your door with a stop action decree, ask them who among them will stop you. France ? Ha, keep attacking.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-07-31 14:08  

#11  Well, as long as they don't start worshiping Great Cthulhu, I'm okay with that... but of course, since old mo' actually was a power-hungry fool deluded by one of the masks of Nyarlathotep, it's practically the same thing, isn't it?
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-07-31 13:19  

#10  People, the time to declare victory is when Islam joins the worship of Huitzilopochtli, and not a moment sooner.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-07-31 10:46  

#9  I wouldn't be surprised if Israel waits 48 hours and then levels the place with artillery and airpower now that the civies are out of the way.
Posted by: DarthVader   2006-07-31 09:53  

#8  Right now, I'd say their claim is not insubstantial.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-07-31 08:06  

#7  If there ain't no more hizbillies, there ain't no more rockets on Israel. There ain't no more war on the border. There ain't no kind of victory. You can't make a victory out of abject defeat. Israel needs to accelerate through the green light and get it done. World opinion usually goes with the winner.
Posted by: JohnQC   2006-07-31 07:40  

#6  French msm have already declared the hizbillies the victors of all this...

No doubt -- the press, by uncritically accepting and repeating the Hezbollah lies, helped them win. The press has a major victory on their hands in this one. I'm sure they feel it makes up for their loss during Rathergate.

Reporters are, by and large, scum. They're traitors to civilization.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2006-07-31 07:19  

#5  As long as Hezzy has a remaining working mouth, it will declare victory.....like as long as it has one working ass, it will fart.
Posted by: Duh!   2006-07-31 04:14  

#4  French msm have already declared the hizbillies the victors of all this...
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-07-31 03:14  

#3  It's an Arab tradition to claim credit for just about everything, no matter how absurd. It's a human tradition for the moonbats and morons and symps and Arabs to believe what suits their fantasies.

You can't fix stupid, you can only tolerate it or kill it.
Posted by: Supple Whomper9999   2006-07-31 02:54  

#2  Hezbollah will declare victory no matter what happens. The question is how seriously people take them. Unfortunately, many of our fellow Westerners, who are normally smart and skeptical people, who pride themselves on being able to see through transparent spin of their own ruling parties, suddenly become susceptible, credulous fools who will swallow any piece of Jihadi propaganda, no matter how ridiculous.
Posted by: Monsieur Moonbat   2006-07-31 02:46  

#1  Give 'em 24 to move back in, then wipe the place.
Posted by: Glomort Hupelet6713   2006-07-31 01:03  

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