Yaalon Says Hizbullah has Possibly 'Accumulated more Self-Confidence'
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Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said Wednesday that Hizbullah might have more self-confidence, days after the party's chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah pledged to defeat jihadists and expressed readiness for a new confrontation with the Jewish state.
“It’s possible that Hizbullah has accumulated more self-confidence than we thought,” Yaalon told Haaretz daily in an interview.
He said the Shiite party is trying to maintain a new balance of deterrence on both the Lebanese and the Syrian borders.
“Victory will be the ally of the mujahideen in their battle against takfiri and terrorist groups the same way it was their ally in the confrontation with the Israeli enemy,” Nasrallah told Hizbullah cadres during a recent visit to the eastern Bekaa Valley.
“Once, the Syrian regime used to activate Hizbullah to strike at us in south Lebanon, without our being able to blame the regime for direct responsibility. Now, Hizbullah is operating the same way on the Golan Heights,” Yaalon said.
According to Haaretz, Israel attributes several of the incidents of the past year in the Golan to the groups connected to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime in Syria but operating under the inspiration of Hizbullah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
Yaalon said that Hizbullah is sending its fighters to Iraq and Syria against its will, under orders from Iran.
The party is also mired in a war against extremist Sunni factions in the Bekaa, he said, adding Hizbullah has additional problems, aside from the tension with Israel.
“The incidents with us don’t prove that Hizbullah is planning an escalation,” the minister told Haaretz. “We reacted forcefully. Let Hizbullah decide whether it’s worth its while to escalate.”
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15 October 2014, 14:51
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Israel and the terrorist sectarian militia are allies. Israel gives HA a reason to exist and HA gives Israel a reason to get more funding.
15 October 2014, 16:16
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Both wants a war : israel to win the war and the hezb to lose the war.
15 October 2014, 16:21
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as hassan nasralla said if hezballah gets israeli praise we must be doing something wrong, yes ya hassan you are but until you actually realize this and more importantly get the iranian green light to correct it we'll all have to wait
15 October 2014, 17:46
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" ISrael is an enemy state," yes
"it's trying to create confusion." no, just in the hezbi propaganda...
israel is very happy to see its two enemies, isis and hezb fighting each other! on the contrary, israel prefers assad to stay in power, with him golan is secured as bashar never fought to take it back and never fired a bullet in 40 years towards israel...
15 October 2014, 18:03
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sure southern, but since 1973? not a single fire!! why? they agreed to keep it calm in exchange for the assad regime to rule...
and sure extremist islamists are allies to israel, whereas they bomb hamas...
and sure isis has taken over the golan....
be logic a bit and take off your hezbi blinkers...
15 October 2014, 18:56
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sure revisionist FT making up history to suit the hezbi propaganda...
twist it as you wish, facts are here for evryone to see, except you blinded by your stupidity.....
15 October 2014, 18:58
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and you both are talking about 1973... but since then? NOTHING to free the golan by your "fake" resistant assad...
so go back and play with your dolls baby FT....
15 October 2014, 19:55
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Hezbollah recruiting slogan (according to TaqiyaThrower):
"We have more casualties against Israel than anyone else!!!"
Join up now!
15 October 2014, 21:04
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"more revisionism from peace. syria lost dozens of planes in skirmishes against israel. it knows that against a israeli threat it can do nothing except lose and badly, especially since no help will come from other arab countries like jordan or egypt. who can claim such casualties to the infinitely superior israel, among arab countries? NONE except lebanon. who can claim to have fought israel other than syria, egypt and lebanon? again, NO arab country. now go back to sleep, funny guy peace."
Hahahahahahahahahhaahhaha Mr Orange with the checkmark on his forehead. Lebanon confronted Israel in 1948 with what, 1,000 men?? In 1967 Lebanon sent what, 2 combat aircrafts??? And Lebanon did what during the Yom Kippur War??? You sure we weren't occupied with all the Palestinians in the country???
15 October 2014, 21:08
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Are you sure Lebanon considered itself an Arab country in the years after??? Wasn't there a civil war for 15 years over the country's identity?? Didn't the Ta'ef say Lebanon had to accept its Arab identity??? Aren't there Lebanese until this day who say they're not Arab???
15 October 2014, 21:09
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Besides random cross-border incidents over digging trees...the LAF did what to Israel between 1982-2000??? And in 2006??? Don't Israeli jets fly over Lebanon everyday without Lebanese retaliation???
15 October 2014, 21:32
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Sorry the LAF wasn't even in the south until 2006 so there couldn't have been tree-diggning incidents between the LAF and IDF. At least I correct my own jokes hahahahah
15 October 2014, 22:28
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Did you know North Korea and Pakistan supplied fighter pilots in the Yom Kippur War??? Lebanon just allowed Palestinians to attack Israel from Lebanese territory. Perhaps to make it look like a contribution to the war, Lebanon supplied radars to the Syrian air defence forces hahahahhahahahahha
15 October 2014, 21:28
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The one and only Mr Orange aka taqiyya thrower aka binary simpleton aka Roar's lover trying to make the LAF look like it fought Israel hahahahahahahahahaha so funny Flamey hahahahahahahahahaha I just choked on water your Aouneh revisions are getting funnier and funnier
