This is music to my eyes:
ON THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER (AP) – Israeli tanks and hundreds of troops moved in and out of Lebanon on Saturday, taking over a village and battling Hezbollah militants by land, sea and air as part of a limited ground campaign.
The soldiers – backed by artillery and tank fire – moved into the large Lebanese village of Maroun al-Ras in several waves and took control, military officials said on condition of anonymity.
Hezbullah wanted a ground offensive, and they’ve got it. Meet the boys of the IDF, terrorists. Hope you survive the experience.
Israel is getting ready for (sigh) more prisoners:
Preparing for an extended ground operation: The IDF has started constructing a temporary detention center designed to hold the Lebanese prisoners that will be captured during army operations in Southern Lebanon, Ynet has learned recently.
A truck convoy carrying barbed-wire fences, containers, and mobile showers and toilets started unloading equipment at the Filon military base near Rosh Pina Friday, and construction works at the place are already underway. According to plans, the structure should be able to hold up to hundreds of Hizbullah prisoners at any given time.
An exercise in the difference between Hezbullah and the IDF. Hezbullah:
Kassem, who at first sight seem healthy, reiterated Nasrallah’s stance and tried his hand at psychological warfare.
“Over the last few days there were six attempts for ground incursions in Maroun el-Ras area, Aitaroun and other places. The enemy saw that the fatalities will be heavy and this caused confusion over the benefit of a ground invasion,” he said.
The IDF:
Israel ousted Hezbollah guerrillas from a stronghold just inside Lebanon on Saturday after several days of fierce fighting, the army said, as it bombarded targets across the south of the country.
Israel Defense Forces ground forces commander Major-General Benny Gantz said troops took the hilltop village of Meron A-Ras, where four soldiers were killed last Thursday, inflicting dozens of casualties on Hezbollah.
IDF troops took positions in the vicinity of Meron A-Ras, in southern Lebanon, on Saturday and carried out operations to detect rocket launchers and underground bunkers where Hezbollah militants are holed up.
This is why Hezbullah will be defeated. You cannot defeate a movement; true. You cannot defeat an ideology; true. But you can defeat an army, and that is what the IDF is doing: Defeating Hezbullah’s army.
May Gd protect the IDF, and may your enemies fall quickly, easily, and thoroughly. And may you enjoy the pizza that my readers are going to send you.
Whoopsie, there I go, bringing the Big Guy into this again. Well, hey. Sue me if you don’t like it.
That’s it for this edition of: Eff you, Nasrallah, and may you meet an Israeli smart bomb in the next 24 hours, or at most, 48.
Actually, I rather hope they don’t. Except maybe for one to bear the tale of how going up against the IDF is a bad idea between glasses of the local potent swill. I’m thinking this lone survivor should have to live like the old blind beggar Matuin(sp?) in Kipling’s “The Truce Of The Bear”. (Of course, I’m one of those who believes that Vlad Tepes had the right idea about detering attacks by the Religion Of Peace©)
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Welcome back Meryl, hope you are feeling better.
“Matun the old blind beggar, bandaged from brow to chin.
“Eyeless, noseless, and lipless — toothless, broken of speech,
“Seeking a dole at the doorway he mumbles his tale to each”
What can I say, I’m a big Kipling fan.
And of course I had to google it. Here it is, folks.
WHOO! Meryl is back!! And in true form! We missed ya! :)
Wouldn’t ya love to be a fly on the wall when the Nasrallah meets the Almighty face-to-face?
I can see it now… “You thought I said to do WHAT?”