There will be defeat, or the continuation of terror.
The Hezbollah representative in Iran struck a defiant tone Monday, warning that his militant group plans to widen its attacks on Israel until “no place” is safe for Israelis.
“We are going to make Israel not safe for Israelis. There will be no place they are safe,” Hossein Safiadeen told a conference that included the Tehran-based representative of the Palestinian group Hamas and the ambassadors from Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinian Authority.
“You will see a new Middle East in the way of Hezbollah and Islam, not in the way of Rice and Israel,” Safiadeen said.
Please note that he is in Tehran, the nation that (with Syria) funds, sponsors, arms, and trains Hezbullah terrorists.
Safiadeen reinforced earlier threats by Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah to widen their attacks, which have included unprecedented missile strikes deep into northern Israel.
The comments by Safiadeen reflected the deep opposition within Hezbollah to the efforts to broker a truce to halt the two-week fighting, including apparent attempts by Arab powers to pressure Syria into ending its support for Hezbollah and leave Iran as its lone major backer.
You have to remember that this is a wire services story.
Safiadeen told The Associated Press he “had no news” about Syria considering withdrawing its support for Hezbollah, which touched off the crisis July 12 with a cross-border raid that captured two Israeli soldiers.
“We will expand attacks,” he said. “The people who came to Israel, (they) moved there to live, not to die. If we continue to attack, they will leave.”
Israel claims Iran has supplied Hezbollah with long-range missiles, which have hit the port of Haifa and other places. Iran denies the charges, but it does not hide its high-level support for Hezbollah. Among those attending Monday’s conference was a top Foreign Ministry official and Gen. Mirfaisal Bagherzadeh of the powerful Revolutionary Guards.
“This war will be remembered as the beginning of the end for Israel,” Safiadeen said.
Okay. Now read that last sentence again, exchange “Israel” for “Hezbullah,” and you have the truth. But notice the breathless way the AP reports this crap. Oh, but wait—there’s more.
Israel Defense Forces incursions in south Lebanon would not stop Hezbollah from firing rockets into northern Israel, the Lebanese guerrilla group’s leader, Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said in remarks published on Monday.
“Any Israeli incursion will not have political results unless it achieves any of the announced goals, most importantly to stop the bombardment of Zionist settlements … and I assure you that this will goal will not be achieved,” he told Lebanon’s As-Safir daily newspaper.
Actually, Chipmunk Cheeks, the rockets will stop—after the IDF takes out your launchers, one by one. They got quite a few of them today. They’ll get more tomorrow. And soon, it is to be hoped, an American-made smart bomb with your name on it will be knocking at your bunker door.