Israeli Official Warns from the Threat of ‘Hizbullastan’
Head of the Israeli defense ministry's political-security bureau Amos Gilad has said that Iran and Syria were supplying Hizbullah with missiles via planes and ships, adding that the Shiite party has more than 45,000 missiles.
“This poses a threat to Israel,” Gilad told the Kuwaiti al-Rai daily in remarks published Sunday.
“Lebanon is a state without a constitution, and a constitution without a state. The president and the speaker are not aware of anything that is happening in the other half of their country,” he said.
“This vacuum leads to the establishment of what we call Hizbullastan … which is active in smuggling weapons and does not need the approval of the Customs,” Gilad added.
He mocked that if anyone asked President Michel Suleiman how many missiles Hizbullah had, he would not know what to answer because he doesn’t have any information on the issue.
The Israeli official called Lebanon a “beautiful country” and slammed Syrian President Bashar Assad for allegedly violating Lebanese sovereignty.
“I have a dream to clinching a tourism deal to visit the eastern mountains of Lebanon and Beirut,” he told al-Rai.
Gilad also slammed Iran, saying its nuclear program represents the biggest political challenge to Israel and is a threat to Gulf countries.
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