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Hizbullah's Patrons Grumble

What looked, only days ago, like it was not going to boil over into a full-scale regional conflict, is now inching back towards 100 °C.

  • Syria is threatening to enter the conflict between Israel and Lebanon if Israeli troops fighting in Lebanon approach too closely to the Syrian border.
  • Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has advised Israel to “pack up and move,” stating that the “Zionists have launched their own destruction by attacking Lebanon.”
  • Nonetheless, “the chairman of Iran’s armed forces joint chiefs, Maj. Gen. Sayyed Hassan Firuzabadi, said Iran would never join the current Middle East fighting,” and the Iranian street is griping that Ahmadinejad should butt-out of the current conflict and focus on helping his own people.
  • Bush is trying to get his Saudi friends to pressure Syria to sever ties with Iran and Hizbullah, but this Slate piece suggests that the more pressure they feel, the more likely they are to stick together.
  • And finally, while I disagree with much of Tariq Ali’s assessment of Israel’s interest in Lebanon, I agree with his conclusion: “Until the question of Palestine is resolved and Iraq’s occupation ended, there will be no peace in the region.”

3 thoughts on “Hizbullah's Patrons Grumble

  1. “Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has advised Israel to “pack up and move,” stating that the “Zionists have launched their own destruction by attacking Lebanon.”
    Must be an aryan thing, attacking Jews and then claiming they started it.

  2. Can we take the blinders off? As long as the Arabs/Muslims want to kill all Jews in the Middle East, there will never be peace. This conflict has nothing to do with the territories, Clinton’s failed attempt to mediate this conflict proved that once and for alll. They hate us, they want us dead, either we fold up shop and disappear, or we prepare ourselves to endure this conflict for the next several hundreds of years. Personally, I opt for choice 2.

  3. Only when every Jew on the planet is dead will those mother fer’s stop. never before that, unless we agree to be their slaves.
    and that my son, will be the end of the fucking story.

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