Damascus is looking to score a few propaganda points over the ongoing fighting in Lebanon and northern Israel.
Syria’s new UN ambassador, Dr. Jafar Ja’afari, told reporters in New York Friday that prior to US-backed efforts to end Syria’s occupation of Lebanon, the presence of the Syrian army resulted in far fewer attacks on northern Israel.
Lebanon’s own military, by comparison, has no chance of reining in Hizb’allah.
“They have no army. It is small, it has little control and everyone knows this.”
Washington is well aware of this fact, insisted Ja’afari, and therefore bears a certain degree of responsibility for the current crisis.
Of course, that is all a load of crap. Northern Israel suffered far fewer attacks during those years because the IDF had military control over southern Lebanon. Not because the Assad regime, which is still technically at war with Israel, was calling the shots in Beirut.
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1 Up Your Ego » Bloggers Blog Blogging // Jul 14, 2006 at 11:15 pm
[…] The Lebanon guy was basically saying “we’ll give your guy back if you give our guys back” and the Israeli guy basically said “shut the hell up, we’ll get our guy back anyway, you attacked us and we have bigger muscles”. […]
2 Tom Goodwin, G.G. // Aug 12, 2006 at 2:29 am
All of this current carnage was started when several Israeli soldiers ventured into Lebanon and were taken prisoner by Hezbollah “militants” on patrol. The disproportionate Israeli response was to BOMB Beirut and send tanks in. One has to wonder why? How about the old-time daring of a rescue raid? Remember Entebbe? That was a triumph for Israel over the arab hijackers. The whole world applauded Israel for military success. It isn’t so now. This conflict is spiraling out of control and there really isn’t any ryme or reason to the Israeli attacks. Hezbollah is a minor threat compared to what the Syrians and Iranians are capable of. They actually have REAL ARMIES. This situation apparently can’t be cured by diplomacy. Remember this: When diplomacy fails, war prevails.
3 Charles Wesley // Aug 24, 2006 at 12:01 am
Nobody seems to remember Israel was attacked by Hamas and then Hezballah while on patrol in Israel.The 8 IDF soldiers are also still dead from those incursions into Israel. Syria does not want to fight Israel so they found some real idiots with military advisers to do it for them. Israel has withdrawn from some areas and spent effort trying to appease those idiots. Israel has had enough of the missles and bombings and the U.S. people have too! GOD said they would rule like “wild” men ,and they do.
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