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Nasrallah threatens to hit Tel Aviv

At a Friday rally in Beirut celebrating Hezbullah's 'victory' in the 2006 Second Lebanon War, Hezbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah threatened to hit Tel Aviv with rockets if Israel hits Beirut.

"Our position is that a unity government in which Hezbollah will be an effective player is urgently required. Hezbollah is able to hit every city in Israel, and I repeat: If they hit Beirut, we will attack Tel Aviv," he said. "We have two options. One is to succumb to Israel and let it call the shots in the region. The other is to be strong so that the Israelis would think a thousand times, even a million times, before they launch a war against Lebanon and Hezbollah. The option is ours."

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"The Israeli threats are no more than psychological warfare," he said. "According to my knowledge of Israelis, when they jabber they are not to be feared. We should be vigilant when they are quiet like snakes."

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The Shi'ite leader quoted Netanyahu in the beginning of his speech. "Netanyahu, God bless him, has written that the Six-Day War was strategically important because it made Israel a fait accompli, and after the Yom Kippur War Arab leaders were convinced they should make peace with it. But the same Netanyahu now says that after the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000 and the Second Lebanon War, Israel lost its deterrent power, and its invincibility is again uncertain."

Nasrallah may be in for a rude awakening. Netanyahu has a couple of things that Olmert was missing....

That gives me an opportunity to break out this video, which I first posted in March 2007. Let's go to the videotape.



Heh.

In the picture at the top, Nasrallah is shown with Maronite Christian leader Michel Aoun.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:34 AM