Hezbullah back on Lebanon - Israel border
Guess who's back in town?Israel's Channel One News reported on Sunday that Hizballah has again taken up positions near Israel's northern border.Meanwhile, Hezbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah had a three-hour interview on Hezbullah's al-Manar television last night, and in the last ten minutes - just before midnight - he claimed to have 'body parts' of Israeli soldiers killed in Lebanon, and offered to trade them for terrorists:
Hizballah used similar positions to launch the July 2006 cross-border raid that sparked the Second Lebanon War.
The UN resolution that ended the war promised Israel that the Lebanese army and international peacekeeping forces deployed in southern Lebanon would keep Hizballah forces away from the border.
He said that Israel seemed less anxious to receive the remains of several fallen soldiers than would seem to follow a deal made several weeks ago, when the body of a drowned Israeli was returned for a wounded Hizbullah fighter and the remains of two others.I certainly hope we're not going to trade live terrorists for 'body parts'! There was no mention of Ehud Goldwasser or Eldad Regev, unless Nasrallah had parts of their bodies in mind.
The cleric added that within two to three weeks it could be appraised if the negotiations will bear fruit.
Nasrallah added that Hizbullah was preparing for a war against Israel but said another round of fighting is not expected in coming months. Hizbullah was following the IDF's maneuvers in the North and its attempts to recuperate from the war, Nasrallah was quoted as saying.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:47 PM
1 Comments:
Back on the border? It's quite likely they never left. UNIFIL hasn't done its job, and Hizbullah was never disarmed as per UN SCR 1701. Or UN SCR 1559.
Heck, Hizbullah had put up checkpoints that UNIFIL had to go through (not the other way around).
It's only a matter of time before Hizbullah begins inflicting rocket attacks on Israel again, and the Lebanese are all but powerless to control them.
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