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Addressing the clerical staff of the Friday prayer sermons in Tehran, Ahmadinejad said Israel and its supporters "should know that they cannot end the business that they have begun."
"The occupying regime of Palestine has actually pushed the button of its own destruction by launching a new round of invasion and barbaric onslaught on Lebanon," the official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted the president as saying.
A top Iranian negotiator reportedly visited Damascus on Thursday for talks on the Lebanese crisis with the Syrian and Hezbollah leaders, starkly outlining the shape of the triparty alliance arrayed against Israel.
The reported meetings also supported the Israeli and U.S. insistence that Syria and Iran have a powerful influence with the Shiite Hezbollah organization and its guerrilla fighters.
In Washington White House spokesman Tony Snow said Syria and Iran "are playing leading roles" in the conflict in Lebanon "and need to step up" to the task of finding a solution.
No Diplomatic Solution to This War
The battle is about Israel's survival
8 hours ago
I have a few problems you post. If the observer position you have pictured is the same one that the Israelis bombed then I would say that the UN forces made a fatal mistake in hanging around once the shooting started. But that would be a failure to take adequate force protection measures on the part of the local UN leadership.
ReplyDeleteYou on the other hand seem to be blaming the victim. The UN forces are after all, observers. The UN itself hasn't actually enforced anything since the Korean War. You didn't offer any evidence that they were cooperating or aiding Hezbollah. And since they were tasked to observe, it probably made sense so cohabitate in order to observe Hezbollah. Given that UN observers probably have limited force protection capability it probably made more sense to colocate than not. It doesn't necessarily mean the UN force were co-opted.
I am also surprised to find a Neo-con that expects the UN to actually implement a resolution.
So I am not buying your argument for the partial justification for Israel targeting the UN post. On the other hand it going to be a long war and this incident will be a minor atrocity when all is said and done.
On the other hand I think the naiveté and incompetence displayed by the Neocons/Bush Administration in pursuit of their Middle East agenda are to blame for the emboldenment of Hezbollah's supporters Syria and Iran. I find the analysis that Iran's position has been strengthened by the removal of Saddam very credible. I am afraid that the Neocons have fumbled the opening kickoff deep in their own territory.
The unfortunate reality of this sports analogy is that we have 130,000 U.S troops in a country with a Shiite majority. That country is barely in control by anyone. That Shiite majority cannot be happy with how the Shiite civilians of Lebanon are being treated by the Israelis.
I just hope the Green Zone doesn't join Diem Biem Phu and the Kyber Pass(1st Afgan War) in the list of military disaters
Roger makes a few points that deserve a response: I don’t pretend to know if the photo in question is indeed the UN position that was bombed. Even if it was, the flags alone would not justify purposefully bombing the position. Israel attacked the UN position by mistake, %@*&^# happens in war. Showing this photo was to make the wider point that the UN observers were far too close to a terrorist organization, an independent militia which the UN itself had called on to be disarmed. The UN took no steps in enforce its own resolution, and more than that, played footsies with Islamo-fascist terrorists in Lebanon who have been armed to the teeth with missiles from Iran and Syria. Clearly Roger, who makes his points with respect and clarity, has yet to understand the nature of the threat of Islamo-fascism, which cannot be appeased or reasoned with: it is an ideology of no remorse, pity or fear and will not stop until you, Roger, and I, are dead. The sooner you come to understand this, the faster we can all overcome this challenge of our time, as the generations befor us overcame European fascism in the 1940's.
ReplyDeleteI see two flags either of which or both of which could have been captured by IDF and placed in this incriminating position.
ReplyDeleteIt could all be faked like so much that the paid pro-Israel posters are putting out.
M. Martin comes to us from his website called “Democratic Senators Represent More Americans.” That alone must tell us something. The Photo in Question, Mr. Martin, is four years old and it’s from the Lebanese side of the boarder. So unless you think the Israelis snuck across the boarder in the middle of the night four years ago and planted the Hezbollah flag on the UN position so they could then a few years later purposefully bomb the UN outpost to kill four observers from Ghana, China, India and Canada, then your conspiracy theory is bunk. Unfortunately, I suspect that this is not the only strange conspiracy theory that you hold.
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