March 14: Hizbullah Seeking to Lure Israel into War
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Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's admission that the party was behind the drone that was shot down by Israel on Saturday is aimed at diverting attention away from the developments along the Lebanese-Syrian border, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Friday.
A leading March 14 source told the daily: “Hizbullah is seeking to lure Israel into a war against Lebanon.”
It said that the admission is reminiscent of Hizbullah's abduction of Israeli soldiers in 2006 in a cross-border raid that sparked that year's 33-day war in July.
“Hizbullah has shifted from a defense strategy to an offensive one, meaning it has eliminated the role of the national dialogue,” it continued.
“The party has also responded directly to President Michel Suleiman's vision of a defense strategy that he has reiterated several times and which calls for freezing Hizbullah's arms,” said the March 14 source.
“The president, who has recently been defending Lebanon's sovereignty, should deal with this threatening development in the same manner in which he deals with the Syrian violations against the country,” it remarked.
Suleiman had stated last week that the weapons of non-state actors will be eventually removed, “whether they belong to Hizbullah or the Salafist forces.”
The March 14 sources added that Hizbullah has “blatantly” violated United Nations Security Council resolution 1701 and the role of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon.
The source held Prime Minister Najib Miqati's government responsible for any Israeli retaliation or future war, demanding “its resignation and the formation of another that would provide Lebanon with the sufficient protection to stress the culture of peace instead that of war.”
“Lebanon has now been placed in the eye of the storm and the country should be placed under the United Nations' supervision in order to avert a war” with Syria or Israel, it noted.
Nasrallah on Thursday acknowledged that his group sent a sophisticated unmanned drone over Israel last week, saying the device was built by the Jewish state's arch-foe Iran.
His acknowledgment came shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pointed at Hizbullah and vowed to defend his country against further "threats."
On October 6, the Israeli air force jets shot down the unarmed drone over southern Israel's Negev desert after it entered the country's airspace from the Mediterranean Sea.
12 October 2012, 08:56
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badna lammyyeh jdideh , chaklon ra7 yerja3o y habtoulna jsoura!
12 October 2012, 09:02
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HizbalKizb, the fake resistance. We need a real resistance to protect Lebanon from these thugs.
12 October 2012, 12:07
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"israeli envoy meets assad, as an emissery from the americans...",that's the true face of the regime since 1975.
since the visit of putin to israel,iran and the mallali are negociating with" shaitan el akbar",that is the true face of iran since the irak/iran war, and iran/contra....and our great fakhamto is driving with agility lebanon through the storm.
12 October 2012, 09:54
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karim_m1 its still early go back to sleep bisharfak w bala ur comments yali ma elon ma3na...
12 October 2012, 10:55
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Hope Naharnet is a democratic forum that will publish this due to censorship seems to apply towards some whom comment on the website. If censorship applies, Naharnet should motivate why they ask people to comment articles when freedom of expression do not always apply?
12 October 2012, 10:55
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You got your facts totally wrong. First of all we could say that the zionist entity is luring Lebanon into war with over 20,000 violations of Lebanon since 2006 compared with a couple of valid violations by Hizbullah. Why some always refer to Iran, Syria or Palestine and that we don't belong to them etc. All those whom say this have not forgotten, but are not aware of the fact that south Lebanon was occupied by the zionists for over 20 years and only the people of the south resisted the occupation, so for all of you whom criticize Hizbullah, ask your parents and leaders what did they do against the occupation, torture and bombardment of south Lebanon? Did they participate to help and free the Lebanese in the south from the oppression of the zionists? People of the south have history of violence against them while other Lebanese where comfy in there part of the country enjoying life like if nothing was going on in Lebanon.
12 October 2012, 12:48
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Hizbullah is playing with fire and asking to open a war with Israel !
Israel has violated Lebanese airspace forever, has spies in the country. Why didn't hizbollah send their drone before? We all know this is not their first drone!
The timing of this drone is clearly an invitation to hike tentions and an open invitation for Israel to strike Lebanon and divert attention from syria!
Hizbollah is not stupid and they were given the green light for a new all out war with israel as a last chance to save the bashar regime and bring everyone down with him !
Just like in 2006, they are pushing the country to war to justify their criminal behaviors, their weapons and actions !
Hizbollah is a traitor to Lebanon and once again has shown that their weapons are not to DEFEND lebanon but to play with fire ! People who play with fire get burned !!!
If they cause another war with Israel, they should not expect 100% of lebanese to stand by them like they did in 2006 !
12 October 2012, 13:24
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lol FT.. good one. I could also say dissarm and dissolve hezbollah, and Israel will do all that. Everything they do today in relation to Lebanon is to monitor the Hezbozos...
12 October 2012, 15:05
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Just a couple of comments.
1. The UN has certified that Shebaa is not Lebanese but Syrian.
2. It was the Lebanese Government which tore up a Peace Treaty with Israeli in the 1980's, not the other way round.
3. What conditions do you claim that Israel has not yet fulfilled?
12 October 2012, 22:00
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With or without Hezbollah, Lebanon is still technically at war with Israel since no peace treaty has been signed so far. There is alot that Israel has done that cannot be merely explained by Hezbollah. Sure, Hezbollah is the main reason RIGHT NOW that Israel threatens Lebanon, but we have other issues with them, such as offshore oil exploration and the cluster bombs in the South. These issues need to be resolved, and to defend Israel's actions is mere ideological illusions. It is simply trying to downgrade Hezbollah by defending a monster.
But a few clarifications: Shebaa has historically been considered Syrian land, according to the UN. The Syrian regime claims that Shebaa has Lebanese in order to continue justifying the existence of Hezbollah and thus use them as leverage against Israel. But we should all remmeber that the regime was willing to drop its support for Hezbollah and claim Shebaa be Syrian territory if Israel drops control of the Golan Heights.
12 October 2012, 12:46
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Ben Dou you are talking in your sleep dude .Hezb Iran cashed in on the hard work done by the Lebanese resistance & the PLO , perhaps your parents did not tell who fired the first shot at the jews in Beirut,where were Hezb Iran than?I watched Hasan on TV and I have never seen anyone talks so much rubbish in my life. I dont like Israel and I dont like Iran either ,both countries are a cancer for the Middle East..
12 October 2012, 13:09
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good luck to the future shia refugees because of the madness of this party! they will not be welcomed anywhere (apart in aoun s territories!) and should not complain if no one treats them well, they will have to ask their beloved leader to help them! which he won t...prefering to let them down to appear like a victim as usual...
12 October 2012, 14:39
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if these people are lebanese then they would obey their state and institutions and not do things their way by spitting on the laws...
any political party is obliged to follow the rules, no? it proves that your party listens to another state than the one they should listen to! with your benediction ...
isn t it to the state to declare war? yes! to a political party ? no!
it shows how you M8 believe more in a party than in your own state which is totally disgusting and scandalous! so don t come and say you respect your state because everything proves the contrary....
they think that dahiye and the south is not part of lebanon but of hezbollaland as they do not listen to the laws and constitution of lebanon!
12 October 2012, 15:48
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hezb want to drag israel into war along with syria trying to drag turkey into war. they are desperate so the best way out is to drag the region into war to hope winning it and staying into power. with the benediction of M8 of course...
12 October 2012, 16:14
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Michel Aoun: Hezbollah is not a separate entity from Syria. It is under the Syrian operational control. September 12, 2002, before he was bought off and became a tool.
12 October 2012, 16:15
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These March 14 rarities are unbelievably smart. They figured out that Israel needs an invitation or a reason to attack Lebanon. What brilliance! Any nation that does not have a March 14 collection should create one ASAP.
12 October 2012, 20:03
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the1phoenix,
Again I expect comments like this from Shab,but not from someone,
who has respect and tries to portray responisble debating,please tell me by the comment of them being filthy or worse what does that solve, Wasnt you that was impressed with the Sayed how he handled the Pope situation,and now there filthy, I know you were called out for being respecatable towards the sayed by some extremeist on this site,but it seems to me and this is just an observation, that your trying to appease the others by joining there negative mentality,please stay respectable and debate with an open mind minus the names,like i said before i for one dont agree with your views but i enjoy reading and learning from your posts..Thank you sir, good day.
12 October 2012, 19:56
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bigjohn, you are wrong, in my opinion, Israel is our enemy, the issue is not disputing that Israel is the enemy and yes it keeps violating our space etc...The issue is Hizablla is a state within a state and I believe that Hizb is currently even more threatening to Lebanon then Israel is...Hizballa being the most armed party in Lebanon is threatening the social and religious fabric of our country...Religious wars are the nastiest of all wars and Hizballa is playing with fire.
12 October 2012, 23:14
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I must agree with many people who have already stated in comments on these matters recently about the enemies of Lebanon. I also don't think that Israel is THE enemy of Lebanon. Israel, and a large portion of the Lebanese population, have a different enemy and that is Hizballah.
13 October 2012, 05:03
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Ben Dou
The Shiia have never defended the South against Israel, their problem was the Palastinians.
When Israel invaded to curb the growing strength and control of the South by Fatah, the Shiia recieved them with open arms, showering them with rice and allowing them to kiss their babies. You must also remember that Lahad's Israeli backed army was 70% Shiia
The Shiia turned against Israel under the tutelage of Iran,
Iran thru HA totally turned the Shiia against Israel and pretentiously made the Zionist state their number one enemy. I say pretentiously because it is a hoax involving their ambitions to build an atomic bomb. The hoax involves the Arab states, Iran is trying to portray to them
that their nuclear program is aimed at Israel and not at the Arabs. A Hoax indeed.
13 October 2012, 08:07
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allah ye7menah wallah..
what does we need is to get the hezib out from lebanon
