Re: Only Hizbullah can defend against an Israeli invasion say Lebanese people
Yeah, just like they ran away from West Bank, Gaza, Sinai. I mean Israelis army is just a bunch of wimps. True warriors in the Middle East belong to different Arab clans like the clan of Arafat, the clan of Abu Nidal, and other clans of hijackers. What my fear is that Lebanon has already become
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Re: Only Hizbullah can defend against an Israeli invasion say Lebanese people
so true.
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Ah, I can see the outburst... Reason why South Lebanon is missing from your list? But don't worry
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Despite Being Homeless, Refugees Vow Allegiance to Hezbollah
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Did you see the latest news? has done it again, this time beat its own record in terrorism oops I mean bravery… ** **is now hiding in hospitals behind the sick…
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Lebanese PM on the other hand do not stand a chance if he makes a single comment against Hizbiz at this stage.
It is sad that Lebanese are caught between many rocks and hard places. Hariri and so many others got assasinated. Syria, Hizbiz, Amal etc etc. should now name Lebanon and just "non". Non-government, non-police, non-army, just bunch of malitias.
I don't know in which dimension you are these days...but haccording to Busharraf horse's mouth, it was the decedant and dastardly Osama and his Al-Qaida, which attempted to kill him...where did Sipah-e-Sahaba entered the fray...
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Reports coming in from Lebanon now say that the Palestinian groups have been providing all the rifles, ammunition, long range rockets, anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to Hezbollah that they were first provided with by Syria and others during the 1980's.
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Also read on the web 4
Re: Only Hizbullah can defend against an Israeli invasion say Lebanese people
Courtesy of the most prestigious defence publication, Janes:
JANE'S DEFENCE WEEKLY - AUGUST 09, 2006
IDF setback at Bint Jbeil
Ed Blanche JDW Special Correspondent
Beirut
*An elite unit of the Israel Defence Force (IDF) suffered a major setback in its thrust into south Lebanon on 26 July when it was confronted by fighters from the Islamic Resistance *- the armed wing of the Lebanese Shi'ite Party of God (Hizbullah) - in the strategic hilltop village of Bint Jbeil.
**In fierce close-quarter fighting, often hand-to-hand, two infantry companies of the IDF Golani Brigade's 51st Battalion were apparently ambushed in the village's narrow streets.
The IDF suffered eight dead - including the battalion's deputy commander, Major Roi Klein,** who threw himself on a grenade - and 25 wounded; they were forced to withdraw in some of the heaviest combat since the fighting began on 12 July.
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*The battle of Bint Jbeil *(Arabic for 'Daughter of the Mountain') **underlined the difficulties the IDF faces in pushing Hizbullah out of the chain of interlocking strongpoints, including fortified bunker networks, it has built since the Israelis unilaterally withdrew from south Lebanon on 23 May.
*Hizbullah is forcing the Israelis to fight on its terms on ground of its choosing, negating much of the IDF's firepower and its doctrine of highly mobile operations.
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Bint Jbeil, 4 km from the Israeli border, dominates several key roads in the rolling hills and wadis east of Tyre and was a strategic objective in the armour-led Israeli thrust that began on 20-21 July to establish a cordon sanitaire to halt Hizbullah rocket fire into northern Israel.
The IDF had declared on 25 July that it controlled Bint Jbeil, which proved to be totally false. Intelligence had estimated 30-40 Hizbullahis were holding the town, when in fact there were closer to 200, including men from surrounding villages who had reinforced the garrison during the night.
After six hours of combat, two more Israeli companies were sent in to help evacuate the wounded, carrying them 3 km under fire to four waiting UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopters. The IDF withdrew from Bint Jbeil on 29 July and by 31 July Hizbullah had given little ground.
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Yeah...it could have been even better if Hezb had some good air defences too...SAMs... :)
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2 killed and 2 wounded soldiers in south Lebanon
two soldiers were killed and another two were wounded from an anti-tank missile shot at an IDF tank in the Lebanese village in Rajameen, in south west Lebanon. All four were brought to Rambam Hospital in Haifa
Re: Only Hizbullah can defend against an Israeli invasion say Lebanese people
63 Israelis have died so far including 39 soldiers. The Zionist have realised that they cannot win and are seeking a ceasefire. Soon its puppet the U.S will present something to the U.N....to save its master.
Re: Only Hizbullah can defend against an Israeli invasion say Lebanese people
That figure has now gone upto 41 Israeli soldiers killed by Hezbollah.
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=109121
**Fourth IDF Soldier Killed **
The IDF has announced that a fourth soldier was killed in Hizbullah anti-tank fire Thursday. His name has not been released. Three others died in a separate incident when an advanced anti-tank weapon pierced the armor of their fortified Merkava tank. Two of the soldiers previously have been identified. The IDF has released for publication the name of the third soldier, Yohonatan Sharabi, 19, of Petach Tikva.
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Hizb is a tiny force which must be multiplied by several 1000 and armed with latest anti tank and AA weapons along with long range missiles 1000s of them.
Nightmare for terriorist in Lebanon.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3285821,00.html
4 terrorist killed in Lebanon
IDF’s nightmare in south Lebanon – Hizbullah’s anti-tank weapons – assault 74th Battalion: During operations in village of Rajmin 4 km into Lebanon, Merkava tank absorbs deadly strike. Two soldiers killed, two air-lifted with severe burns to hospital, where one later dies of his wounds; another soldier killed in evening by anti-tank missile in al-Taibeh village.
Efrat Weiss
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It is estimated Israel is using 15,000 troops, 300 tanks, 2,800 armoured fighting vehicles, 144 self-propelled artillery guns, 48 multi-barrel rocket launchers, 400 mortars, 72 attack helicopters, 100 support helicopters, 50 drones and at least 100 ground attack aircrafts.
They are fighting against an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 Hizbullah fighters.
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It is reported that 5 Israeli soldiers have been killed today so the total would be 44.
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Today many more Israeli soldiers killed by Hezbollah.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=893446
**Eight Israeli soldiers killed, wounded in clashes with Hezbollah – sources **
Eight Israeli soldiers were killed and wounded in fierce clashes with Hezbollah fighters in all southern border villages on Friday, security sources close to Hezbollah said. They told KUNA heavy confrontations were ongoing between Hezbollah militants and the Israeli forces in four juctures in southern Lebanon, with both parties using machineguns and rocket propelled grenades. The sources said the confrontations were taking place from one street to another and from one house to another. Israel confirmed the death of three soldiers and the destruction of a Mirkava tank. Hezbollah said in different statements its fighters fired shells at a group of Israeli forces who were trying to advance in Teiba project, Maroun Al-Ras, Eita Al-Shaab and Markaba. The attack killed and wounded several soldiers, said the party.
The fierce clashes coincide with Israeli artillery shelling against most of southern Lebanese towns and villages, estimated at around a 100. Hezbollah fighters and Israeli forces were battling in up to five kilometers deep inside the Lebanese territories. The Israeli warplanes destroyed earlier today four causeways linking the capital Beirut, with northern Lebanon. The attack killed five civilians and wounded 19 others. A Lebanese soldier was killed and another was wounded in an attack by the Isralei jet fighters on the southern entrance of Beirut. (pickup previous) oh
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Here is an excerpt taken from an interview taken by Vibes of Dr Ilan Pappe:
VIBES: Earlier you said that Hezbullah is a legitimate organization. What reasons would you give Israelis to accept the party?
Dr. Ilan Pappe: I must say it is not easy to tell Israelis this. I have always said this and I also said it on TV the other day, but and I was attacked. I was attacked by many for saying this, especially at a time like this. But I am not just saying it with no basis. I have done a lot of work on the topic and have written much on Israel, Islam and Peace. My work is centered against Islamophobia, and it is certainly not an easy task to convey a complex message.
But it goes without saying that this false demonizing image that Israel and the US project of the Muslims is a great distortion. There are many people in Israel, the Arab Israelis mainly who fight against this as well.
At the end, one has to do what one can to fight it. I certainly do, and I don’t want to give up trying because it is wrong for the world to project Israel as a European enclave in the Middle East, and we must not accept it.
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Hezbollah chief wins admirers - Nasrallah’s success unites Arab world
When the face of Sheik Hassan Nasrallah appeared on the television hanging over the bar, the customers at Lina’s, an upscale Beirut cafe serving coffee and cocktails, fell silent. For nearly 30 minutes, the middle-class patrons, none of them ever likely to vote for an Islamic fundamentalist party, sat spellbound on a recent evening as the black-turbaned Hezbollah leader delivered one of his periodic addresses that remind the world he is still alive. Others got up and stood around the television, to better hear the man at the center of the war engulfing their country. And when it was over, scattered applause rippled around the room as the customers went back to their drinks. “We are not Shiite, but we love him,” said Mona Saman, a 28-year-old accountant, who is Sunni. “He’s defending Lebanon.” It isn’t just in Lebanon that Nasrallah, a man considered a terrorist by Israel and the U.S., is winning admirers far beyond his Shiite Lebanese constituency. Across the largely Sunni Arab world, the Islamist leader whose fighters have defied the Israeli army for the past three weeks is being lionized. In Damascus, Nasrallah T-shirts and buttons are all the rage. In Egypt, demonstrators have held up his picture alongside that of the last generation’s Arab hero, Gamal Abdel Nasser. A new hit on Arabic satellite music channels by Egyptian folk singer Shaaban Abdul Rahim is dedicated to Nasrallah. “Oh Hassan! Oh Nasrallah!” goes the refrain. “We are behind you and will not leave you.” This was not the intention of Israel’s government when it set out to eliminate the movement led by a man described by Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as a murderer. But three weeks into the war, which began when Hezbollah fighters entered Israel and took two Israeli soldiers captive, there is still no sign that Hezbollah and Nasrallah are on the verge of being defeated.
Gains respect of Sunnis
On Thursday, in another of the recorded addresses made from his hiding place, he upped the stakes again by threatening to strike Tel Aviv. “If you bomb our capital Beirut, we will bomb the capital of your usurping entity,” he said. “We will bomb Tel Aviv. Anytime you decide to stop your campaign against our cities, villages, civilians and infrastructure, we will not fire rockets on any Israeli settlement or city.” That Nasrallah, a Shiite, is being feted by the mostly Sunni Arab world makes his ascendancy all the more significant at a time when the violent Sunni-Shiite division in Iraq and the United States’ controversial effort to reshape the Middle East have polarized the region. “He’s the man of the moment. He’s the one bridging the Sunni-Shiite divide through the Arab cause,” said Nizar Hamzeh, a Lebanese political scientist at the American University of Kuwait and an expert on Hezbollah. “Nasrallah, after fighting the most high-tech army in the Middle East, is still standing, and that has made him a hero.” The U.S.-allied Saudi and Egyptian governments, the opposition Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the region’s most influential Sunni clerics and Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda are among those who have offered praise for Hezbollah in its fight against Israel, an unusual convergence of views. So has Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose Shiite theocracy sponsors Hezbollah. The Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr has called on his followers to rally in Baghdad on Friday in support of Nasrallah and Hezbollah.
Movement gains strength
Nasrallah’s credentials as a military tactician and a politician are well established in his home country. His reputation grew after Israel’s army withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000, following attacks by Hezbollah’s fighters. Under his leadership, the shadowy movement held responsible for the suicide bombings and kidnappings that drove the U.S. military from Lebanon in the 1980s has become a mainstream Lebanese political party, with seats in parliament and two ministers in the government. Nasrallah, too, has backed away from his hardest line. Gone are the days when he required women who interviewed him to cloak themselves in black abeyas, the head-to-toe garments. No longer do Hezbollah militiamen bomb the bars of Beirut or threaten storeowners who sell alcohol. “He has had to adapt to the political reality of the religious and sectarian diversity of Lebanon,” said Amal Saad Ghorayeb of Beirut’s Lebanese American University. “Hezbollah is an Islamist movement, but if you look at Nasrallah’s [more recent] speeches, there’s very little Islamism in there. It’s all about political goals and military strategy.” He has proved to be a skilled political operator, steering his way through the sectarian minefield of Lebanese politics without making any real enemies–and winning some curious friends. Among them is the Christian leader, Gen. Michel Aoun, with whom Nasrallah forged a formal alliance in February. The partnership surprised many because Aoun vehemently opposed the presence of Syria in Lebanon, while Damascus is one of Hezbollah’s main sponsors, along with Iran. Although Nasrallah is portrayed by the U.S. and Israel as a tool of Iran, which supplies his movement weapons and money, and as an ally of Syria, he has positioned himself within Lebanon as a nationalist.
Studied under Iraqi Shiites
Ideologically, his roots are closer to those of Iraq’s Shiites than Iran’s. In 1978, he went to Iraq to study at the seminary in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, under the tutelage of the influential Mohammed Baqir Sadr, who founded the Dawa Party now governing Iraq. In 1980, as Saddam Hussein launched his crackdown against the Dawa Party, Nasrallah fled to Baalbek in Lebanon to continue his studies. When Iranian Revolutionary Guards arrived there in the wake of Israel’s 1982 invasion to create a new, Shiite force that would counter U.S. influence in Lebanon and oppose Israel’s occupation, the young Nasrallah was among those recruited to the new cause. He fought as a commander in southern Lebanon and served as Hezbollah’s official spokesman before ascending to the leadership in 1992. He is also renowned as a man of his word–an important quality in a region where Arab leaders are mostly renowned for their failure to deliver on their promises. The July 12 abduction of two Israeli soldiers, which triggered the crisis, was code named Operation Truthful Promise because Nasrallah had pledged for more than a year to kidnap Israeli soldiers to exchange for Lebanese prisoners. “When he promises Israel there will be surprises, there are surprises,” said Saad-Ghorayeb. “People believe him, and if he promises to hit Tel Aviv, they believe he will hit Tel Aviv.” Whether Nasrallah’s prosperity would outlive a defeat of Hezbollah’s militia by Israel’s superior ground forces is in question. But almost any outcome other than a crushing defeat would benefit Nasrallah, she said. “As Nasrallah has said, victory means not losing.”
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