Israeli Defense Official: Next War will Include Attacks on Lebanese State Institutions
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Israel will attack Lebanese government targets during a future war with Hizbullah, a senior defense official said, lamenting that the Jewish State did not do so during the 2006 aggression on Lebanon.
“It was a mistake not to attack Lebanese government targets during the war in 2006,” The Jerusalem Post quoted a senior defense official as saying. “We will not be able to hold back from doing so in a future war.”
The official said that Israel complied with a U.S. demand and restricted its bombings to Hizbullah targets during the war to refrain from weakening the government that was at the time led by Fouad Saniora.
“This will not be the same in the future, particularly now that Hizbullah and the government are effectively one and the same,” the official said.
The IDF has significantly boosted its “target bank” since the 2006 war, the Jerusalem Post reported. Today’s bank is said to contain thousands of Hizbullah targets, compared to the approximately 200 that the Israeli army had on July 12, 2006, when Hizbullah abducted two Israeli soldiers, triggering the war.
The decision regarding bombing Lebanese government institutions is part of a revised Israeli army strategy on how to inflict damage on Hizbullah and speed up the end of the new war, the daily said.
12 April 2012, 11:35
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I think it makes sense, and hopefully will materialize sooner than later.
12 April 2012, 11:49
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it is getting closer than ever.... have been warning about this for a while and taxed by so many bad comments from stupid m8 guys.
the only solution left would be:
- hizbushaitan should immediately turn over their weapons to the army.
- the government should resign immediately leaving the door open to m14 to take totally over.
this is the only way I can see to avoid this upcoming war.
12 April 2012, 12:24
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The only way to stop an oncoming war is if you, Europe and the US stop being so aggressive with Iran, then we might truly avoid a war. M14 take over? M14 have ruined the country more than any war could have, $11 billion stolen. Pishhhh.
12 April 2012, 18:42
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Well FT. I totally agree with you about the achievements of past governments, but, you forgot something very important: Berry, Jumblat, Hezb. and many other were sitting in the governments when all these achivements "happened".
Fact is, the ones from M8, sitting in the past governments are even more people than the M14....
Ya3ne, the Gemayel youngsters, Gaegae, Saed hariri for example, were not in the past "non achiving" governments that ruined Beirut....
Not that I care for Maskhara14 or Maskhara8, but lets not twist the facts...
13 April 2012, 08:17
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Slash bozo, you forgot to add israeli and american after iran and syrian. loser
12 April 2012, 18:12
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Perhaps we should stop protecting Iran and Syria, but also the US and the rest of the West. How about we speak of protecting the Lebanese, something politicians on both sides have failed to do.
13 April 2012, 04:17
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israel is out of lebanon, so how do you explain the everyday aggressive rhetoric of hizbushaitan against israel and all the threats they constantly launch? you expect the israelis would just let them be?
furthermore, this is also linked to the events in the region: destroy hizbushaitan, the syrian regime falls, thus iran is cornered like north korea, making its threat contained, till they implode from inside.
my suggestion is aimed at avoiding the unnecessary destruction of lebanon, and if the lunatic hassouna wants to become a martyr, then so be it, be my guest. :) after all it is your choice.
we will rebuild the countryafter you are gone :)
12 April 2012, 12:11
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nothing unexpected, i would do the same if i were Israel defending my people. This threat is the by-product of a country run by an uncontrolable militia who see it fit to make threats and attack Israel at will, without being held accountable for its actions. Who are they defending anyway? they seem to start the trouble then when israel retaliates they claim they are the resistance. can anyone explain this to me? The only benefactors of their generous and heroic deeds seem to be the palestinians. beats me !
12 April 2012, 18:21
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So Hezbollah sprung out of no where because some men felt like starting a war with Israel? Hezbollah sprung up because of Israel's daily human rights abuses and violation inside Lebanon and the Lebanese state's inability to take care of it. What do you expect the South Lebanese residents to do? Sit there and watch Israelis control their land? I doubt you'd do that.
13 April 2012, 05:17
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@gcbi, Hezbollah did not spring up. They are an Iranian militia, so cut the crap. Iran talks a lot but they do not have the guts to fight Israel. So they place their thugs in Lebenon and stay as far away from the fighting as possible.
@Flamer, you are like a human flea, jumping from comment to comment with a fever.
12 April 2012, 12:12
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no one cheers for israel but you cheer for the syrian regime and iran :)
what I said is merely what is going to happen, whether you like it or not, and please this time round, do not come running to us for protection as you will find none.
12 April 2012, 18:15
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Who is cheering for Syria and Iran? When Israel invaded Lebanon in 82 to wipe out the Palestinians, the Shi3as in the south greeted them and celebrated them. But Israel stayed for no apparent reason (other than imperial interests), and residents in the south felt the need to liberate their land. Tell me where in any of this brief story does it show that Hezbollah is solely about supporting Iran and Syria? Sure they are allies, but your understanding of politics is simplistic and naive if you equate allies with puppets.
12 April 2012, 12:21
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Just because you're selfish and power hungry doesn't mean the rest of us are. The Palestinian people need a home and right now, you're depriving them of it.
12 April 2012, 13:22
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Mad Zionist much worst than radical Islam, both helped each other to destroy the region for the sake of their fascistic policy anti-Lebanese.
12 April 2012, 13:34
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Israelis are becoming more & more stupid.
If an spider is harming you you do not cut its arms (Hizb) becoz it will grow again under another form cf wars with PLO in Lebanon.
You cut eitheir its head (Iran) which may be impossible or the body (Syria) that transmits the order from the head to the arm
The body is very weaken and is attacked internally so you should just cut it instead of keeping artificially alive
then the arm of the spider will fall by itself
12 April 2012, 13:38
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Thanks israel for always putting fuel to the extremist so they get their excuses carrying weapons. Almost seems like you are in a cooperation...
12 April 2012, 13:51
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"Destroying the identity of the Beirut center"? wake up Mr. Know it All, AKA flame thrower, the contribution this has done to the Lebanese economy and millions generated from Tourism and jobs created, what do you do with this, sometimes you really sound pathetic with your comments.
BTW have you renewed your black shirts wardrobe?
12 April 2012, 22:58
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I'd have to disagree. Rafiq Hariri had a plan to bring in badly needed foreign investments inside Lebanon and liberalize the economy, to restore Beirut as the Paris of the Middle-East. You're right, he did destroy historical architects in Beirut, but the money from tourism has helped Lebanon. Of course you can argue he put us in debt, but he also had the diplomatic links to let others forgive us for the debt in return for investments. Too bad his son isn't nearly has visionary. Nonetheless, I understand your criticism of Hariri. Very controversial figure.
Just letting you know, from June 2004 up until his death, Rafiq Hariri used to visit Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah twice a week, and referred to Nasrallah as "the Lebanese politician I trust the most".
12 April 2012, 16:49
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It does make sense bombing all strategic areas of Lebanon if Israel is attacked. Lebanon in essence has no territorial dispute with Israel and hence attacking Israel will constitute by international law an aggression against a sovereign country which has the right to respond in a manner tantamount to declaration of war. Israel has a problem with the Palestinian not with Lebanon and hence Hezbollah is using Lebanon as an alibi to remain armed in Lebanon not to attack Israel but to takeover Lebanon by force. This time Hezbollah would be annihilated if it does any stupid move towards Israel. Iran would simply not defend it because then all western powers would side with Israel since it is attacked from Lebanon for no reason. I hope this will not happen because we are fed up from wars.
12 April 2012, 17:39
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hezb is the only responsible if israel launches a new war and those who support this terrorist mafia too....
12 April 2012, 18:23
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Was Hezbollah responsible when Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 and violated the country's sovereignty? Oh wait, Hezbollah didn't even exist by then.
12 April 2012, 20:00
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@gcb, Are you really going to use a 30 year old example...come on! you surely can do better than that.
12 April 2012, 22:37
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no but another terrorist group launching attacks from southern lebanon the way hezb do today... hezb just took their place, nothing new in the terrorist world... learn from your history instead of praising this illegal group that doesn t want to obey the lebanese laws and constitution; you should be ashamed :)
12 April 2012, 17:56
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The Last thing israel wants is peace.
How could they continue to steal Palestinian lands in the west bank while crying about being victims of "terror" to extort money out of western governments and Jewish communities?
If Israel was serious about peace they would have at least responded to the Arab Peace Proposal. As for the peace treaties with Jordan and Egypt were nothing more then surrender agreements by these two countries where Jordan renounced all of the west bank and Egypt requires Israeli permission for every soldier who want to enter Sinai.
What the Israelis want is a weak Lebanon and they will be ready to massacre every man woman and child to reach there goals. And for you to support those blood thirsty terrorists is beyond my understanding. You are disgrace to both Bashir and the Lebanese forces maybe you should put Lieberman's photo instead, it will be a better representation for your allegiance.
12 April 2012, 18:11
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Some people around here are so ridiculous !!! Lebanon is a small country, weak, and loaded with debts, and anyone saying that M14 or M8 are not controled by external powers, are dumb people and brainwashed as well.Let's go back and remember how the m14 gov was, and let's see what improvements they did during years of power control: Answer is None, Electricity plans must have been completed since the war ended in Lebanon, Jobs, Powerful economy!!! None of these happened, now that m8 is in the government(not taking any side here) eventhough it's not a better gov, but if cancer was spreaded during 20 years, at least you need 5 years to be able to see a bit of imporvement, Seems I wasn't aware that from 1992 till 2005 Lebanon had 24 hours elect/ Any next war, Lebanese must be united, whether they are bombing the south or anywhere, children will die and families will die!! Stop being brainwashed and once and for all be objective
12 April 2012, 18:18
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Israel seeks peace? After the ceasefire in the 2006 war, they dropped over 4 million cluster bombs in civilian areas according to Human Rights Watch. Political analysts have constantly blamed Israeli officials for the reason the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is still ongoing. If Israel seeks peace, why did the Lebanese have to force them to leave in 2000? They invaded Lebanon in 82 to deal with the Palestinians inside Lebanon (whom South Lebanese residents had problems with). But once they dealt with them, why didn't they leave? They provoked a non-state resistance to wage war against them in order to liberate their land. Seriously? Israel seeks peace? Give me a break.
12 April 2012, 18:22
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How nice of you to talk about your fellow Lebanese this way. Wow, very honourable.
Shameful.
12 April 2012, 18:24
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@ Ulpianus, you are right and Israel has never been better since Hezbollah controls the south. Think about it, no palestinians throwing rockets randomly on her. The war in 2006 was a joke exept for dummies that think Hezbollah won, yes they are strong on the ground but they destroyed most of their strongholds, killed more than Hezbollah admitted it lost, because in war, sometimes you do not find bodies because they have been withdrawn in order to swap them later. Hezbolllah fighter's bodies were in hundreds taken by IDF. Not to mention the magnificient special effects making us think they hit 50 merkavas while they have destroyed only 20... but showing us the same merkava from different angles. But what do you know propaganda and specially zionists saying they were defeated in order to boost Hezbollah in Lebanon knowing that their sole purpose is the control of the country and not Israel.
12 April 2012, 18:24
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The clearest proof, its been 2 years Hezbollah and M8 have been in power. have we begun drillin the oil? are they scared from the zionists now that they have the power they are afraid to lose it? How come many Hezbollah members were found to be spies and admitted by Nasrallah and we never heard about their fates.. was it the same as karam's? hailing him as a hero and giving him only 9 month with room service in his golden cell?
12 April 2012, 18:29
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And Bachar was never meant to go. he is a wonderful guarantee for Israel against extremism. The whole goal of the " new middle east " was to transform sunni countries around Iran to extremist exept gulf countries cause of oil. In syria, bachar would be weakened but never removed. But bachar doesnt want to be a toy anymore for the US , so he is commiting an ethnic cleansing of northern syria in order to create a Alawite state near the border with turkey where it harbors more than 15 million alawites, thinking that these turkish alawites will maybe separate and join him in his new state. This is why Turkey is afraid and wants assad out and is hosting the " friends of syria " meeting. one has to look further than the narrow views of M14 and M8 followers...
12 April 2012, 18:45
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No doubt Lebanon would be a much safer place without an armed militia within its borders. Anyone thinking the opposite needs a reality check. They give the war criminal Israel an excuse to continue threathen its neighbour.
12 April 2012, 19:24
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when israel speaks nowadays against the lebanese gvmt , u realize how much wahabies salafis farsis and israelis are alike,
bilad el arz is something different that will prevail,and be sure that the game includes:israel syria iran saudis.. who are all against lebanon,but they are all in a hole,AND LEBANON WILL PREVAIL,BELIEVE IN THAT..ITS TRUE..WE ARE HAPPIER THAN THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THESE REGIMES.
12 April 2012, 20:02
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Hez also get finicial support from the US, did you know that. What does that do to your paradym?
12 April 2012, 20:12
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Hey at this stage whereby Lebanon in all reality folks is hostage to HA....our only hope for true democracy, lasting peace and hopefully back to a one ruling government/army...is for Israel to clean them out once & for all. Nobody else can so lets face it as much as I despise these Zionist murderers, Israel is the only way out. HA does not beleive democracy or human rights. They beleive in controlling through force, barbarism and prehistoric caveman laws. They must go along with Assad and Iran.
12 April 2012, 22:53
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Let's face it, can the army defend Lebanon against Israel? Now you're gonna reply to me and say Israel wouldn't attack Lebanon if Hezbollah didn't exist. Well, let me ask you this.
-Did Hezbollah exist when Israel first invaded Lebanon? No.
-In the early 2000s, Lebanon wanted to built a dam to divert more water into its land, which was perfectly legal under international law. Before we built it, Israel constantly threatened to bomb Lebanon if they build it. This had nothing to do with Hezbollah. The water would benefit all Lebanese and their economy. Hezbollah threatened to retaliate if Israel touches our resources. Since Israel's public opinion did not want another war right after the withdrawal, Israel backed away. Now, had there been no Hezbollah, Israel would've easily wiped out all of our resources, with the army inept to defend it.
13 April 2012, 04:21
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@gcb1:
do you support the lebanese army or not?
if you do, then turn over this deterrance weapons to them, and let them handle it :)
why does it have to be hizbushaitan, and not our army?
12 April 2012, 21:03
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Well just Rumors those Israili Guys do the contrary of what they say.
12 April 2012, 21:15
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or or or we just make peace with israel, so that my grandpa can see his israeli childhood friends before death
12 April 2012, 21:50
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It must feel good to be an Israeli. Can insult anyone and yet it sounds civilized.
13 April 2012, 00:45
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just like Israel invaded Lebanon in 82 to take care of the Palestinians - who were despised by the local population, they will similarly have to invade to rid Lebanon of the Persians - who just just as despised if not more so than the Palestinians.
just like the sunni's sided with the palestinians against their fellow countrymen, the shia are committing the same transgression, siding with the Persians against their fellow countrymen.
just like the shia cheered the Israelis entering to rid Lebanon of the PLO, the sunnis will cheer the Isrealis for entering to rid Lebanon of the Persians.
I guess history repeats
13 April 2012, 01:12
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When the Israelis spend their time screaming and shouting and threatening, you know they are out of any good options. And this is always a good thing.
13 April 2012, 09:29
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Try to comment without cursing- Remember you're not talking to your mother. No Palastinians = no Israel and no filthy Persian militia.
13 April 2012, 05:23
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Who is killing innocent Lebanese people today after the war is over and both jealous of the land countries: Israel and Syria are out of Lebanon?
(i.e. Bus entered Syria and then bombed, New TV dude, fishermen in Tripoli) and I won't start counting those Lebanese politicians who passed after the war since 2005 INCLUDING those who truly defended the Lebanese soil: Hajj and Wissam Eid.
It is not American made, not the Zionists creating religious strife, it is an internal job supported by foreign money and arms to eliminate any anti-Syrian regime figures and keep the situation unstable in Lebanon to stay in Control.
13 April 2012, 07:39
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they are going to pound their stinky asses with 3+ ton bombs. Will be sitting on my balcony and watching all the actions.
13 April 2012, 07:57
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It seems this time around taking out the trash is going to be expensive and hurt a lot of people. Do I wish this on innocent Lebanese civilians? Hell NO! But what has to be done has to be done once and for all. Hzb El Kzb & Terror is killing us a slow and painful death day in and day out. Once we get rid of them we will rebuild like we always do. May Israel rain terror in the heart of Hzb El Kzb & Terror the same way that the party of shaitan terrorizes us without any mercy or remose. And may the sub human thugs on this forum who support this group in resisting democracy and freedom find themselves nuked first.
13 April 2012, 08:34
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To Senior Israeli Offense official:
HA already knows that. and their little master said that it will be tit for tat, so you will get the same in return he promised. So why are you BS'ing? I say that you fear HA the most and you do not know how to fight them so you have to resort to actions as you stated and taking others hostage for HA's actions. REAL COWARDS.
I truly and sincerely wish that HA kicks your butt big time. You apartheid state opressing the defenseless and the weak; Stealing land and ethinicly cleansing the palestinains as hitler did to your ancestors.
13 April 2012, 11:13
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Flame Thrower for President! This guy really knows it all!! Frankly who needs another stooge on this forum, on top of that wearing a black shirt!
13 April 2012, 15:33
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The Senior official stated that in case of future conflict Entire Lebanon will suffer as the claim that its only Hezballa responsibility and not the Lebanese government is ridiculous.
As contrary to 2006 the Hezb. is involved to his neck in Lebanon, they are in government and parliament.
As as Israeli I can say the none of us are bloodthirsty looking for wars. On the contrary we wish for the days when Lebanon used to be the Switzerland of the Mediterranean. with its growing economy and finance centers. but all this came to an end with the 1st Katyusha rocket shot from Lebanon to Israel. The question now is not what came 1st, the egg or chicken, it should be mutual interest for both sides to keep border quiet. In case of hostility , Israel will have to do what any country would have done by protecting its people.
Hope it won't be necessary.
14 April 2012, 09:13
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I say you go down again Danny Boy. HA will be dragging your monkey butts all over the place. I will be having a beer and watching you get your butts kicked.
14 April 2012, 09:52
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Arzz boy. do you think that the next war you will have a chair to sit and drink beer ?
More likely you won't have a chair at all.
Besides, for more than 100 years of the Arab / Jewish-Israeli conflict, you Arabs dream of killing us, raping our women, destroying our houses, taking our money and burning entire country.
At the moment you do it with great success to yourselves.
Remember the Civil war in Lebanon, the war in Iraq, Syria Libya and now will start in Egypt.
So i'm afraid my little chimp that you will have to hold your horses and continue dreaming.
A quiet border in Israeli side will ensure also yours.
If your friends the Iranian (sorry their puppets Hezballa) will look for war all Lebanon will suffer as its same now.
