The Prime Minister of Lebanon is disavowing any responsibility for the Hizbullah attack that killed at least seven Israeli soldiers.
Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said on Wednesday the Lebanese government did not condone a cross-border Hizbullah attack against Israel.
“The government was not aware of and does not take responsibility for, nor endorses what happened on the international border,” Siniora told reporters after an emergency cabinet meeting. He condemned the Israeli retaliation and said his government would call for a UN Security Council meeting.
Translation: We have no control over an entire army that lives in our south, and we’re here to tell the world that we’re as flaccid as a broken balloon when it comes to Hizbullah.
Picture the world’s tiniest violin playing. No, don’t bother. I have no sympathy. This was a disaster in the making, and the international community has ignored it for decades, as have the Lebanese.
Isn’t it funny that whenever a terrorist organization attacks, nobody ever seems to blame the countries that harbor the terrorists? Well, except for Afghanistan. Any time anyone attacks Israel, the Exception Clause is in order. Somehow, Israel is always at fault.
I assume the UN will use words to that effect soon.
Don’t worry about the UN. More useless resolutions. Unless it is an Article 7 resolution, they have no more effect than an Internet poll.
Cheer up. Look at the US responses. Even the State Department made a good statement!
Now is the chance for the IDF to scour the countryside of South Lebanon, hectare by hectare, even if it takes months, and locate all those 10,000 rockets Hezbollah has stockpiled.
When they find them, truck half of them to the Gaza border, and allow the residents of Sderot to fire 5,000 of them into Gaza.
The other 5,000 rockets should be set up along the border with Syria and fired by the residents of Kiryat Shemona and other nearby Israeli border towns.
Repeat as necessary.
History repeats itself. This is pretty much the same situation Lebanon was in when in 1982 the PLO ran South Lebanon and its terrorist activities there provoked Operation Peace For Galillee. If a government will not or cannot exert control over the territory it claims sovereignty over, thus letting terrorists commit acts of war against a neighboring country from that terrirtory, it has no valid reason to complain when the attacked nation takes steps to safeguard itself. In other words, if Lebanon does not want Israel to put down Hezbollah on Lebanese terrotory then Lebanon should put it down first.
Or does not want to. It is far easier for a government to let a terrorist organization do their dirty work. Would be an act of war if they attacked Israel but by letting Hezbollah do it, Lebanon is blameless. It is common knowledge that all the Arab/Islamic countries want to wipe Israel off the map.