The IDF sent out more than a shot across Hebullah’s bow last week. They’ve followed it up with a warning:
Lebanon and Hizbullah will pay a “heavy price,” senior IDF officers warned Monday, if the Iranian-funded group fails to learn its lesson from Israel’s massive retaliatory strike on Sunday and launches additional attacks against northern Israel.
“We hope the message from our response [on Sunday] was understood correctly by the other side [Hizbullah],” Commander of the Galilee Division Brig.-Gen. Gal Hirsch told reporters on Monday as a tense quiet prevailed in the north after rockets flew over both sides of the border on Sunday .
“If the message was not internalized and violence recurs, we will know how to retaliate even stronger,” he added. “We are ready for another day of fighting if it comes to that.”
But despite the quiet in the region, the IDF Northern Command continued to maintain a high level of alert on Monday, as the defense establishment expressed fears that Hizbullah might renew its rocket attacks along the northern border.
On Sunday, Israel destroyed most of the Hizbullah’s military positions along its northern border in the heaviest fighting since the IDF withdrew from southern Lebanon six years ago. Sunday’s rocket and artillery exchanges killed two gunmen in Lebanon and wounded two IDF soldiers.
It’s about damned time Israel started working on getting rid of the Iranian proxy army on her northern flank. It’s also past time for the UN and Lebanon to take action on that UN resolution that tells Hezbullah to disband.
The pharaohs of Teheran will fight to the last Lebanese against the eeeevil Zionists.
All those people determined to negotiate with the pharaohs, who treat their advances with contempt and who will not give up their nuke ambitions for anything, ought to think about what the Mullahs’ beef is with Israel. They want to destroy the country and kill all the Jews there because Israel exists; there is no other reason than that. Israel never did anything to Iran. Just because the Jews rule their own state the Mad Mullahs want to carry out genocide. What does that tell you, Condi and Company, Eurotwerps and all, about Iran’s disposition and the prospects for serious negotiations? Trying to appease the unappeasable is futile.