Posted on 02/18/2010 8:36:48 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Amid growing fears of another Middle East war, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has thrown down the gauntlet for Israel by vowing to hammer Ben-Gurion Airport if Beirut's Rafik Hariri International is hit, as it was in their last conflict in 2006.
That was not likely an idle boast. Nasrallah was unusually specific in what targets Hezbollah would hit, thus signaling its capabilities.
"He's never been as detailed and candid," said Lebanese political scientist and Hezbollah expert Amal Saad-Ghorayeb of the American University of Beirut.
According to Israel's military intelligence, Hezbollah has in excess of 42,000 rockets and missiles stashed away, including weapons capable of hitting Tel Aviv, Israel's largest metropolis, and even the Dimona nuclear reactor further south in the Negev Desert.
Nasrallah's warning in a speech Tuesday night took the warlike rhetoric that has been coming from both sides in recent weeks to new heights. "If you hit our ports, we will hit your ports," he declared.
Israeli leaders have warned that in any new war their forces will be merciless, sparing nothing and no one in Lebanon, because Hezbollah is now in the government.
Khaled Saghiyeh, editor of Beirut's al-Akhbar newspaper, declared that Nasrallah's threat elevated this enmity to a new level by vowing not only to retaliate but to inflict equal damage.
This appeared to be a deliberate move by Nasrallah to portray Hezbollah's guerrillas as a conventional army on a par with Israel's vaunted military, which it fought to a standstill in the 34-day war of 2006, not just a feckless Arab militia.
The impact of his speech was somewhat reduced by the fact that he delivered it by closed-circuit video from the bunker where he has been forced to hole up because of at least two Israeli attempts to assassinate him.
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In 7 years if Chavez is still there Venezuela will have a nuke. And Hezbollah will have a nuke. All spreading from Iran.
I absolutely agree with you. Hezbollah does not need a rocket to deliver a nuke.
Where is Mitch Rapp? Why is this man still alive?
This cowardly boob wouldn’t open his trap if they didn’t already have missiles ready.
Can you believe that Hezbollah has 42,000 rockets all under the noses of UNIFIL?
"Israeli civilian casualties would likely be extremely heavy.
or...
"...maelstrom of global condemnation and international isolation."
...should they use the nuke option.
In other words....if you don't use nukes,many of you will die..and if you do use them,the world will bassically carry on as usual where you're concerned.
The bloated and bloviating turdstain needs to be turbanated.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8pVvJIzllA
If Israel were smart, they would make a quick example of this a$$ wipe if he makes good on his threat. Lebanon has tolerated Hezbollah and they are combatants in my book.
Can you believe the UN is an instrument of Islam?
"The ship is sinking and all of us, the Lebanese, should stick together and work together to stop the Israeli aggression," Amin Gemayel, a Maronite Christian who served as president from 1982 to 1988, told the Arabic-language TV station Al-Jazeera . . . Michel Aoun, a one-time commander in Lebanon's 15-year civil war who now serves in parliament, said . . . "I don't think that Israel has the capability to destroy Hezbollah militarily because Hezbollah is not a group of armed men," Aoun said. "Hezbollah is a major part of the Lebanese social fabric."
As a student of a Catholic high school, the Sisters of Loretta taught me, I am pleased to be at an institution of higher education with such strong and celebrated Catholic and Jesuit traditions . . . You see, I got my Master's Degree at Notre Dame. (Boos.) I acquired a passion for the fighting Irish . . . and my family has been college educated and Presbyterian ever since. (Laughter and applause.) . . . I wandered into a course on international politics taught by a Czech refugee who specialized in Soviet studies, a man who had a daughter by the name of Madeleine Albright. With that one class, I was hooked. I discovered that my passion was Russia and all things Russian.
Of course. They always have.
Here’s some old news. Israel probably has quite a few more of them now. ...not to mention a couple of closer-than-meets-the-eye allies with large nuclear weapons forces.
U.S. Air Force: Israel has 400 nukes, building naval force
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/710830/posts
IMO, before it’s all said and done, the nukes will fly due to the ignorance of world leaders (and their controlling constituents) who believe in their vanities, that they know it all.
You are right
Time to call in Mr. JDAM.
...by vowing to hammer Ben-Gurion Airport if Beirut's Rafik Hariri International is hit, as it was in their last conflict in 2006... According to Israel's military intelligence, Hezbollah has in excess of 42,000 rockets and missiles stashed away... Israeli leaders have warned that in any new war their forces will be merciless, sparing nothing and no one in Lebanon, because Hezbollah is now in the government.Thanks sonofstrangelove.
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