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Iran's Ahmadinejad Heads for Israel Border - President Who said Jewish State Should be "Wiped Off the Map" Shows Solidarity with Hezbollah on Symbolic Lebanon Visit
"(CBS/AP) Hezbollah supporters used mosque loudspeakers Thursday to rally crowds ahead of a trip by Iran's president to southern Lebanon near the border with Israel, a visit the U.S. and Israel have called intentionally provocative.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Lebanon on Wednesday to a rapturous welcome organized by Hezbollah. His country is the main patron of the Shiite militant group, the most powerful military force in Lebanon.
On Thursday, Ahmadinejad is scheduled to make a trip to the Shiite heartland in the south and the Israeli border, which will emphasize Iran's support for Hezbollah's fight with Israel.
Residents of southern Lebanese villages were heading to Bint Jbeil, a border village that was bombed during the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war, to greet the Iranian president Thursday afternoon. The village, barely two and a half miles from the border, is dubbed "the capital of resistance" because it was a center for Hezbollah guerrilla action against Israel during the Jewish state's 18-year occupation of the south, which ended in 2000.
Many students in the south skipped school Thursday to await Ahmadinejad.
Israel is watching the Ahmadinejad visit closely, reports CBS Radio News correspondent Robert Berger, but it is keeping a low profile militarily, hoping to avoid a flare-up on the volatile border. Some Israelis were prevented from reaching the border to hold a demonstration.
While Israeli officials have toned down their rhetoric publicly, Berger says that in private, they describe the Iranian leader's visit to Lebanon as a provocation. The Ynet website quotes an Israeli government source as saying the visit, "illustrates how Lebanon has turned into an Iranian satellite nation, thus joining the axis of radical countries which oppose the peace process and support terror."
From Israel's point of view, explains Berger, Hezbollah has established a state within a state in South Lebanon, with an arsenal of 40,000 rockets. Hezbollah would likely enter the conflict if Israel were to carry out its threat to launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
Israel appealed to the United Nations to urge Lebanon to block Ahmadinejad's visit to the border town, and prevent him carrying out his threat to symbolically hurl a stone toward the Jewish state.
Ahmadinejad's trip has underscored the eroding position of pro-Western factions in Lebanon. More broadly, it suggested that the competition over influence in Lebanon may be tipping toward Iran and its ally Syria, away from the United States and it Arab allies Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
His arrival also exacerbated fears among many Lebanese - particularly Sunnis and Christians - that Iran and Hezbollah are seeking to impose their will on the country and possibly pull Lebanon into a conflict with Israel. Many say the trip could aggravate tensions in a country with a long history of sectarian strife."
News through the Never Ending Filter Of Zionist Acceptability.
First the mandatory "wipe off the map" bullshit translation lie.
And the title itself, as if the border belongs to Israel. not the Lebanese - Israeli border.
This visit is a 'provocation'? How about the many times Israel invaded Lebanon? How about illegal terrorist sonic boom overflights?
No, it's the Israelis who "oppose the peace process and support terror."
So Hezbollah has rockets. The zionists have nuclear tipped missiles.
The hypocrisy of Israel appealing to the UN for anything is laughable in the extreme.
Three words for the propaganda hacks at CBS: Sabra and Shatila, the Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon, where Israelis and their Kataeb murderers "aggravated tensions" in 1982.
"We might have accepted evidence of a few murders; even dozens of bodies, killed in the heat of combat. Bur there were women lying in houses with their skirts torn torn up to their waists and their legs wide apart, children with their throats cut, rows of young men shot in the back after being lined up at an execution wall. There were babies - blackened babies babies because they had been slaughtered more than 24-hours earlier and their small bodies were already in a state of decomposition - tossed into rubbish heaps alongside discarded US army ration tins, Israeli army equipment and empty bottles of whiskey."
"(CBS/AP) Hezbollah supporters used mosque loudspeakers Thursday to rally crowds ahead of a trip by Iran's president to southern Lebanon near the border with Israel, a visit the U.S. and Israel have called intentionally provocative.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Lebanon on Wednesday to a rapturous welcome organized by Hezbollah. His country is the main patron of the Shiite militant group, the most powerful military force in Lebanon.
On Thursday, Ahmadinejad is scheduled to make a trip to the Shiite heartland in the south and the Israeli border, which will emphasize Iran's support for Hezbollah's fight with Israel.
Residents of southern Lebanese villages were heading to Bint Jbeil, a border village that was bombed during the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war, to greet the Iranian president Thursday afternoon. The village, barely two and a half miles from the border, is dubbed "the capital of resistance" because it was a center for Hezbollah guerrilla action against Israel during the Jewish state's 18-year occupation of the south, which ended in 2000.
Many students in the south skipped school Thursday to await Ahmadinejad.
Israel is watching the Ahmadinejad visit closely, reports CBS Radio News correspondent Robert Berger, but it is keeping a low profile militarily, hoping to avoid a flare-up on the volatile border. Some Israelis were prevented from reaching the border to hold a demonstration.
While Israeli officials have toned down their rhetoric publicly, Berger says that in private, they describe the Iranian leader's visit to Lebanon as a provocation. The Ynet website quotes an Israeli government source as saying the visit, "illustrates how Lebanon has turned into an Iranian satellite nation, thus joining the axis of radical countries which oppose the peace process and support terror."
From Israel's point of view, explains Berger, Hezbollah has established a state within a state in South Lebanon, with an arsenal of 40,000 rockets. Hezbollah would likely enter the conflict if Israel were to carry out its threat to launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
Israel appealed to the United Nations to urge Lebanon to block Ahmadinejad's visit to the border town, and prevent him carrying out his threat to symbolically hurl a stone toward the Jewish state.
Ahmadinejad's trip has underscored the eroding position of pro-Western factions in Lebanon. More broadly, it suggested that the competition over influence in Lebanon may be tipping toward Iran and its ally Syria, away from the United States and it Arab allies Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
His arrival also exacerbated fears among many Lebanese - particularly Sunnis and Christians - that Iran and Hezbollah are seeking to impose their will on the country and possibly pull Lebanon into a conflict with Israel. Many say the trip could aggravate tensions in a country with a long history of sectarian strife."
News through the Never Ending Filter Of Zionist Acceptability.
First the mandatory "wipe off the map" bullshit translation lie.
And the title itself, as if the border belongs to Israel. not the Lebanese - Israeli border.
This visit is a 'provocation'? How about the many times Israel invaded Lebanon? How about illegal terrorist sonic boom overflights?
No, it's the Israelis who "oppose the peace process and support terror."
So Hezbollah has rockets. The zionists have nuclear tipped missiles.
The hypocrisy of Israel appealing to the UN for anything is laughable in the extreme.
Three words for the propaganda hacks at CBS: Sabra and Shatila, the Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon, where Israelis and their Kataeb murderers "aggravated tensions" in 1982.
"We might have accepted evidence of a few murders; even dozens of bodies, killed in the heat of combat. Bur there were women lying in houses with their skirts torn torn up to their waists and their legs wide apart, children with their throats cut, rows of young men shot in the back after being lined up at an execution wall. There were babies - blackened babies babies because they had been slaughtered more than 24-hours earlier and their small bodies were already in a state of decomposition - tossed into rubbish heaps alongside discarded US army ration tins, Israeli army equipment and empty bottles of whiskey."
posted by nolocontendere at 4:32 AM
3 Comments:
The mere presence of Lebanon on the map and Palestinians in concentration camps is a provocation to Israel.
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The mere presence of Lebanon on the map and Palestinians in concentration camps is a provocation to Israel.
gc
Say it once, say it twice...it's still the truth.
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