Wednesday war news, with snark

Egypt to Hezbullah: What you mean “we,” paleface?

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak rejected calls for tougher action in response to Israel’s offensive in Lebanon, in comments carried by the state-owned press on Wednesday.

“Those who urge Egypt to go to war to defend Lebanon or Hezbollah are not aware that the time of exterior adventures is over,” he told reporters on the flight back from talks with Saudi King Abdullah.

Mubarak stressed that throwing the country into a war would be irresponsible when 73 million Egyptians “need development, services, work and housing.”

“Those who are asking for war will make us lose all of that in a blink,” said Mubarak, quoted by the government Al-Gomhurriya daily. He stressed that he was not ready “to spend the people’s budget on a war… which isn’t their war”.

“The Egyptian army is for defending Egypt only and this is not going to change,” Mubarak added.

Translation: “We’re not gonna get our asses kicked by Israel again. Plus, the U.S. would take away our $2 billion a year.”

Bint Jbeil is no walk in the park

At least 30 soldiers were injured in battles in the town dubbed as Hizbullah’s ‘capital,’ in one of the most bitter battles the IDF has known in recent years; three soldiers sustained serious wounds, two others were moderately wounded while the rest were lightly hurt in the fighting.
IDF sources said an extremely difficult phase of the battle developed when soldiers encountered terrorists face to face, accompanied by the setting off of explosives and the firing of various missiles.

And oh, yeah—more Hezbullah war crimes:

On Tuesday, many weapons in some of the homes were found, and rooms have been turned into war rooms for Hizbullah members.

On Tuesday morning, during early searches, fire was opened on forces, who returned fire. A number of terrorists fled into a mosque in the area and continued to fire from within the structure at soldiers.

Last week, a missile launcher was found in the mosque, IDF sources said.

“Hizbullah members don’t discount any means to kill or injure, including the use of civilians as a holy human shields. If there will be no choice, we will hit every place from which they shoot at our forces,” a military source told Ynet.

The Lebanese have moved into action: They’re arresting “spies.”

Lebanese security forces have rounded up at least 36 people suspected of spying for Israeli intelligence amidst a two-week old conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, security sources said on Wednesday.

With the help of Hezbollah, security forces detained the informants, many of them former members of a now defunct pro-Israeli militia, in the eastern Bekaa Valley and the south, which have seen heavy Israeli bombardment, they said.

I don’t know what’s worse: That all the “spies” are Christians, that Reuters passes along this information uncritically (without happening to mention that the SLA was mostly a Lebanese Christian army) and that Hezbullah is “helping” the Lebanese capture “spies.”

Chipmunk Cheeks to Israel: We haven’t killed enough civilians yet, so we’re aiming for more.

In a televised address, Nasrallah said Israeli incursions into southern Lebanon would not stop Hezbollah rocket fire into northern Israel and that the conflict was moving “beyond Haifa”.

Another Hezbullah scumbag is saying the target is Netanya. Netanya is the town where the Passover Massacre took place—the suicide bombing that finally pushed Israel into dismantling the terrorists in the terrortories[sic].

A senior Hizbullah official said that the organization has set a new target for itself – the city of Netanya, as reported by the Iranian news agency Fars in Lebanon.

But back to Chipmunk Cheeks: He has figured out the master plan.

The radical Islamic group head said Israel’s offensive in Lebanon was part of a conspiracy with the U.S. to create a new Middle East.

“In the new Middle East, there is no place for any resistance movement. The resistance movements in Palestine and Lebanon must be eliminated,” Nasrallah added.

Damn straight, fatso. And believe me when I tell you we are so looking forward to the new Middle East sans, well, you. May a bunker-buster with your name on it find you soon.