Israel heeds Iranian warning - says no plans to attack Iran, Syria

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Although, Israel claims that Iran and Syria are helping Hezbollah, they are powerless to do anything, and admit that they are bogged down in Gaza and Lebanon.

Peres: Israel has no plans to attack Iran, Syria

Israel is not planning to attack Iran or Syria, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres said, noting that the Jewish state already had its “hands full” with Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. It is up to the international community to tackle Tehran, Peres told BBC television in an interview broadcast late on Tuesday. Asked whether his country would hit Syria or Iran, he said: “No, I don’t think they will attack us… and we shall not attack them because I think Iran is a world problem.” He continued: “It is not for us to deal with. We don’t want to convert it into an Iranian-Israeli conflict. We have our hands full anyway.” Israel has accused Iran and Syria of arming Hezbollah and Hamas militants with the guns and bullets that are aimed at the Jewish state. “The missiles, the rockets. All of them are coming either from Iran or Syria,” Peres said.

He defended his government’s decision to strike Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon and Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. “We would not attack Lebanon either, we wouldn’t attack even Hezbollah, we wouldn’t attack even Hamas if they wouldn’t attack us and they wouldn’t provoke,” he said. “It is not our choice it is our lack of alternative that brought us to this confrontation.” Peres was speaking as the crisis in Lebanon entered its second week, with Israel’s bombardment showing no sign of letting up. In addition, Israel has been operating inside the Gaza Strip for three weeks since June 28, when troops rolled back into the territory in a bid to retrieve a soldier abducted by militants and halt rocket attacks.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=17012

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President Lahoud thanks Iran’s support for Lebanon

Lebanese President Emile Lahoud in a meeting with Iran’s Ambassador to Beirut Mohammad-Reza Sheybani on Wednesday appreciated Iran’s support for his country. At the meeting held in Lebanon’s presidential palace, Lahoud lauded President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s character and said that convergence and unity is the only way to overcome the brutal aggression of the Zionist regime. For his part, Sheybani strongly condemned the savage crimes of the Zionist regime against the Lebanese people, government and resistance movement. “Israel’s measures, including attack on public places and innocent people as well as using banned weapons violate all international laws and criteria,” he added. Stressing Iran’s support for Lebanon, he said that the Iranian nation will stand by the Lebanese people to enable them to gain their legitimate and legal rights. The Iranian diplomat said that the silence of the world and regional community vis-a-vis the crimes committed by the Zionist regime is unjustifiable.

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0607195720171908.htm

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**Iran Claims Solidarity with Lebanon… So Do the French **

Jim Kouri, CPP Late Sunday night, Iran’s top religious leader praised the Lebanese Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah for launching attacks on Israel.

“The [Israelis] want Lebanon to be a meat in their mouth, but the powerful Hezbollah has prevented their dream from being realized.” Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised speech on Iran’s state-controlled news.

“The crimes and the atrocities in the recent weeks in Palestine and Lebanon have proved again that the existence of Israel in this region is an evil and cancerous being and an infected tumor,” he added.

Meanwhile, former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami hailed Hezbollah as “a radiant sun that emblazons and warms the all Muslims and free nations, including the Palestinians,” Iran’s Fars news agency reported.

“What is going on in Lebanon today eliminates all the possible doubts about the necessity for the powerful presence of the resistance movement in that country,” Khatami was quoted as saying.

The Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar stressed that Israel would “regret its crimes once [the] Muslim states resort to action,” according to the Fars report.

Najjar condemned the Israeli aggressions against the Palestinian and Lebanese people, accusing Washington of indulging Israeli escalation. He also warned Israel of the consequences of invasion into Syria.

In an obvious show of unanimous support for the terrorists, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi also expressed support for Syria. “Iran [is] standing by the Syrian people and Israel [will] face unimaginable losses if it attacks Syria.”

“We have offered and will still offer Syria and Lebanon [military] and humanitarian support,” he added.

On Saturday, the Israeli army said that it had bombed the no-man’s land laying between Lebanon and Syria. But Israel’s head of military operations General Gadi Azincot told a news conference in Jerusalem that Syria was not an objective.

Israel launched its offensive Wednesday on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah guerillas. Over 700 rockets have been fired on northern Israel by Hezbollah since the intense and escalating battle broke out.

It’s no secret that Iran wishes to see the Jewish State annihilated. It’s been a constant theme for that terrorist-supporting nation. However, many American observers appear surprised that France said it is sending Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin to Beirut to express support for Lebanon’s government and solidarity between the French people and the Lebanese.

De Villepin did not offer any praise or sympathy to Israel, but that shouldn’t surprise anyone familiar with Frances history of anti-Semitism.

During the Nazi occupation of France, the French police and security forces were more than willing to help the Nazis round up Jews to send them to the concentration camps. In fact, the French were so good out apprehending Jewish people, the Nazis allowed them to operate practically unsupervised by the Gestapo and the SS.

Even in unoccupied France, under the Vichy government, Jews were rousted by the French police and military as a symbol of their allegiance to the Third Reich. But French anti-Semitism didn’t end with their liberation from the Nazis. France has a track record of opposing Israel at every turn and voting for every United Nations resolution condemning Israel. In fact, according to United Nations observers, the UN has passed more resoultions condemning Israel than they have any other country including Iran, Cuba, North Korea, etc. And the Israel-haters could always count on the French vote.

In addition, the French have been experiencing a great deal of civil unrest on the part of their Muslim population, and France’s leftist President Chirac was slow to act when riots broke out within the Islamic community and spread into the heart of Paris. It’s believed de Villepin trip to Lebanon is a symbolic gesture of solidarity with France’s own Muslims. Some may point out that in France, there is a very thin line between solidarity and appeasement; just as there’s a thin line between appeasement and cowardice – appeasers and cowards

http://www.opinioneditorials.com/freedomwriters/jcpp_20060721.html

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Syria has issued a similar warning to Israel i.e. that if it invades Lebanon then it will intervene militarily. It is becoming clear that Israel is failing to defeat Hezbollah, and is not going for a full-scale invasion especially considering it's previous experiences in Lebanon.

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^ I am not sure to what extent Syria's help will assist Hezbollah.

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So true!

it is heart warming to see Iran and Syria step in to save Lebanon purely with a French kiss.
It is heart warming to see airplanes from Iran and Syria fighting Israeli planes over Beirut with big help from French chefs.
It is heart warming to see Iranian and Syrian tanks roling into Hiafa, forcing Israel to run like heck with intelligence beamed down straight from French satellites.

It is heart warming to see Iranian and Syrian ships putting blockade around Israeli ports, while French dedicate their air craft carrier for Iran and Syria.

And then some body wakes up and smells the coffee.

Just so that as soon as coffee is finished, that same person goes back to taking long nap on the big heap of sand.

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Was that you? Go back to your nap, proobl :)

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Only a Bidduin can put smilies on while his country men are kicked around by a tiny state of Israel. So what else is new? Oh Yea! Iran and Syria are coming. Iran is coming. Syria is coming. run run!

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I'm not a Bedouin, you retarded imbecile.

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Hezbollah is doing a good job on it’s own so far.

**Hezbollah proving to be tough foe for Israel **

Figures released by the Israeli army show the pace of Hezbollah rockets raining down on Israel has not slowed - and the guerrillas are nowhere close to being neutralized. Air power alone is proving insufficient to rout Hezbollah, whose determination and intimate knowledge of the terrain are making them a tougher-than-expected foe. Mideast observers say Hezbollah only has to remain standing - not beat Israel - to emerge victorious in Arab eyes. Hezbollah actions such as blowing up an Israeli warship with an Iranian-made radar-guided missile or firing rockets at the once out-of-range city of Haifa have shattered taboos and astounded Israel and the world. The Shiite group has built Viet Cong-style bunkers and tunnels near the Israeli border to shelter weapons and fighters, and its members easily blend in among civilians.‘‘You are dealing with groups of 10 to 12 very well organized, very well trained people who work out of their homes,’’ said Timur Goksel, a university professor who spent more than two decades as a senior U.N. adviser in south Lebanon. ‘‘Don’t underestimate the resilience of these people.’’

Israel says it has already taken out nearly half of the estimated 10,000 to 12,000 Hezbollah rockets in south Lebanon, and that its blockade of the country should help keep the guerrillas from restocking. **But Israeli army figures show there’s been no letup in the number of rockets Hezbollah has fired at Israel. Since fighting began, the count stands at more than 1,100, with the number more or less evenly divided over the past 12 days. At least 80 rockets hit Israel on Monday, and two days ago the number was 129. **Most of Hezbollah’s rockets have been Iranian-made Katyushas and Syrian-made Raads, with ranges up to 28 miles. Israel also believes Hezbollah possesses the Iranian-made ‘‘Zalzal’’ rocket, which has the range to hit Tel Aviv and cities farther south. **‘‘Certainly Hezbollah doesn’t seem to have suffered many casualties and I don’t think their military capability has been degraded,’’ **Goksel said. Israel’s army chief of staff maintained Friday that nearly 100 guerrillas had been killed in fighting that broke out July 12 when Hezbollah crossed into Israel and captured two Israeli soldiers. But military officials have privately lamented what they called the low number of Hezbollah casualties. Hezbollah itself reports only 11 dead.

Fearing a prolonged quagmire and heavy casualties among its troops, Israel says it has no intention of launching a massive land invasion to defeat Hezbollah. But the past several days’ small-scale pinpoint operations to root out guerrilla positions along the border are proving far more daunting than expected, according to soldiers returning from battle. The troops complain of difficult terrain and being surprised by Hezbollah guerrillas who pop out from behind bushes firing automatic weapons or rocket-propelled grenades. Two Israeli soldiers were killed and 20 were wounded Monday as they tried to take the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbail amid a heavy exchange of gunfire, missiles and mortars. The pinpoint incursions are supposed to accomplish what the 4,000 Israeli air sorties have been unable to achieve. But the twin strategy of airstrikes and limited ground offensives will not be enough to force Hezbollah to refrain from launching attacks, said Israeli counter terrorism expert Boaz Ganor. The issue is fraught with dilemmas for the Jewish state. Israel is determined not to reoccupy south Lebanon as it did disastrously from 1982 to 2000, but that may be the only way to neutralize Hezbollah. Israel might want to use a cease-fire to achieve its strategic goals. But a cease-fire that leaves Hezbollah’s fighting ability intact could, in the eyes of many Israelis, cause irreparable damage to Israel’s deterrent posture and hand a major victory to archenemy Iran, Hezbollah’s prime supporter. Israeli Cabinet minister Avi Dichter insisted the army’s offensive is going fine and that Israel can’t be expected to achieve its military objectives overnight, especially given what he said was the government’s determination to limit casualties among civilians and Israeli soldiers. ‘‘We know that only in Hollywood it starts at 8 and ends at 10 and normally it’s a happy end,’’ he said. More than 350 people have been killed in Lebanon since the fighting began, according to security officials. Some 600,000 people have fled their homes. More than 35 Israeli’s have died, including 22 soldiers. If Hezbollah emerges from the fighting with its ‘‘military arm more or less intact … my God they’re going to use it as a victory,’’ Goksel said. ‘‘As long as they don’t lose, they don’t have to win … because they’ll be standing up to the Israelis and in this part of the world that is a victory.’’

http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article…75473704732051

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As if the world gives a hoot to the "Arab eyes".

Damage to Lebanon is done, while Iran and Syria stand on the borders issuing empty threats. Hizbis may be victorious in their own empty brains. Would that change the realities on the ground. Will that bring back the bridges and roads and cell towers, and hospitals. Heck no!

My fear is that Israel will occupy more land and put more settlements. Victory for Azabullah, and loss for Lebanon.

Hooway tum dost jiskay, Dushman uska asman keon ho!
(With friends like Hizbis, who needs enemies).

What did you pray for today?
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Hezbollah is kicking arse. Israel IS struggling to defeat them. Thus the innocent killings.

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Please don’t judge all Pakis by one deranged Paki..

thank you.

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At least it'll save them from furthur destruction.

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Isralis r just cowards! pushing a button and there goes a missile in the babies..orphans.. widows even a 3 yrs old can do what they so called tecnology war.. Hezbollah r LIONS ! Isralis r pigs! hiding in the tanks so scared to die! COWARDS!PUNKS!HUMAN TRASH! RUBBISH!!! get a life! saddo! And there's another a$$hole bush!A retarded dog! Biting humans around ! don't know y the americans made a retarded their president? when'll they realize dat his brain is just a bucket full of $hit! the ameircans who vote him to be their leader r nothing but a bunch of stupid crazy idiots ! only idiots vote for an idiot! FullSTOP!

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Azabullah may be Loins of Lions. What matters most is that Israelis are inside Lebanon. Hmmm what kind of lion would allow a pig to enter? May be a a pesky dog in Lion's clothing!

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Only a hungry Lion attacks !! Isralies r hungry pigs that's y they r crashing around looking for food! So Hungry to smell Lion's fart! hahahaha! Grow up man!

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lol, right, I was surprised when they re-elected him, I'm like how dumb can u get.

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Some selective quotes by yourself from a factual news piece which points out Israel's total failure against Hezbollah.

Figures released by the Israeli army show the pace of Hezbollah rockets raining down on Israel has not slowed - and the guerrillas are nowhere close to being neutralized.

Hezbollah actions such as blowing up an Israeli warship with an Iranian-made radar-guided missile or firing rockets at the once out-of-range city of Haifa have shattered taboos and astounded Israel and the world.

But Israeli army figures show there's been no letup in the number of rockets Hezbollah has fired at Israel. Since fighting began, the count stands at more than 1,100, with the number more or less evenly divided over the past 12 days. At least 80 rockets hit Israel on Monday, and two days ago the number was 129.

What exactly does Rose Water do for your skin?
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Bhai sahib, I read the papers, and I have seen the news. We can either

all live in the la la land or
realize that Azabullah started something terrible for their country.

Iran or Syria will stand on the side line and warm their footsies and tootsies in the Lebanese fires. That is so unfortunate. iran and Syrian are shoving the mad-nasrullah azabullah Arab brother into war just to have fun.