Netanyahu: Israel won't hold back when attacked

Newsmax.com ^ | 9-13-09 | Amy Teibel

[444Flyer]

JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Lebanon on Sunday that Israel "will not hold back" when attacked and holds the Lebanese government responsible for any assault on his country.

Netanyahu delivered the warning after two rockets fired from Lebanon struck northern Israel on Friday. Israel responded immediately with artillery fire, and the exchange ratcheted up persisting tensions between the two countries.

"We view this very gravely," Netanyahu told his Cabinet. "We will not hold back when Israeli territory comes under fire, and will not reconcile ourselves to missile fire or any other form of terror directed at Israeli citizens."

It was not immediately known who fired the rockets Friday. But radical Palestinian factions in Lebanon have been blamed in four firings at Israel this year.

The Israel-Lebanon border has been tense since Israel mounted a monthlong war against Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas in the summer of 2006. More than 1,200 people in Lebanon and 160 Israelis died in that conflict, which ended in a United Nations-brokered truce.

On Sunday, Netanyahu put the onus of maintaining the cease-fire squarely on the shoulders of the Lebanese government.

"We see it responsible for all these violations and hostilities directed at our territory that originate from Lebanese soil," he said.

Hezbollah has a large rocket arsenal, but is not believed to have used

[444Flyer]

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[agrace]

Hezbollah = Iran by proxy.

I think Israel is going to move on Iran proper soon.

[Nachum]

Hope he means it and Israel won’t cave to US pressure when the response is necessary.

[The Comedian]

Attention Tehran: Your fried mushroom special is ready.

[Cinnamon Girl]

This is the BIBI ping list.

[Iscool]

Unlike some of the previous Israeli leaders, I’m thinkin’ the Arab world may be a little wary of BiBi...

[444Flyer]

Yes. He does tend to project his “Real Man” image quite effortlessly.

[RoshYisrael]

Why not send ten or twenty rockets right back at them for about two months. The rag heads would be scrambling like a bunch of filthy cockroaches. Oh come to think of it islimemics are a bunch of filthy cockroaches.

[Bigh4u2]

The problem I see with that scenario is that the Iranian people are basically good.

It’s the government of Iran and the ‘radicals’ amongst them that is the problem.

How do you discriminate between the two with an A bomb?

(rhetorical. I know)

[crazydad]

But Osamabama will probably protest and threaten Isreal.

[SevenofNine]

You didn’t know CG

Obama going talk Crazy Nut job to death

[The Comedian]

The problem I see with that scenario is that the Iranian people are basically good.

Same with WWII-era Japanese. Same with today's Americans. Sometimes, people get to suffer for their dereliction of duty in failing to remove a hideous, dangerous government.

Sometimes, Anytown get's nuked because John and Jane didn't depose the Emperor in time.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[BARLF]

Thanks Cinnamon Girl

[Centurion2000]

bump

[happygrl]

Thanks for posting!

[proudofthesouth]

God bless Bibi!

[444Flyer]

Bump that!

[happygrl]

Sign me up Sister!

[444Flyer]

Welcome aboard.:)

[Cinnamon Girl]

You're on. ;)

[happygrl]

Be still, my beating heart!

[SJackson]

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[stephenjohnbanker]

“Hope he means it and Israel won’t cave to US pressure when the response is necessary.”

Bibi knows that Obama is a wannabe Marxist dictator, and will deal with him accordingly.

[SunkenCiv]

...and holds the Lebanese government responsible for any assault on his country.

[RobbyS]

The German people were basically good and a good many of them were not enamored with Hitler.

[Eleutheria5]

Thank you, Bibi. And if Barry has a problem with it, he can go sit on a mountaintop in Lebanon and rotate.