commentarymagazine.com - 11/21/2009
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Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah recently announced that he could hit any and every place in Israel with long-range missiles. That would mean that, unlike in 2006, Hezbollah could strike not only the northern cities of Kiryat Shmona and Haifa but also Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, ...
foreignpolicy.com - 11/26/2009
philly.com - 11/25/2009
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philly.com —
Three Lebanese nationals and one U.S. resident were
charged yesterday with attempting to obtain 1,200 M4 military...
assault weapons for Hezbollah, in the second set of such charges in as many days from Philadelphia. An alleged Hezbollah arms dealer was ...
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Four charged in 2d Hezbollah case with Phila. link | ...
presstv.ir - 11/17/2009
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After Israel released photos it said proved that
a huge shipment of weapons for Hezbollah came from...
Tehran, Iranian news agencies publish evidence showing that the photos are forged. Israeli naval sources recently claimed that they found a large cache ...
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Israel gaffe reveals 'Iran ship photos' were forged
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MICHAEL TOTTEN: A Third Lebanon War Could Be Much Worse Than The Second….
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MICHAEL TOTTEN: A Third Lebanon War Could Be Much Worse Than The Second.
The Next War
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Michael Totten takes into account Hezbollah’s new longer-range rockets:
If Israel’s nuclear power plant comes under fire, if Tel Aviv skyscrapers explode from missile attacks, if Hezbollah manages to turn all of Israel into a kill zone where there is no place to run, Israelis will panic like they haven’t since the 1973 Yom Kippur War when it briefly appeared the Egyptian army might overrun the whole country. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere in Lebanon while Israelis are actively fending off that kind of assault. No country can afford ...
Israel's border with Lebanon heats up
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... flying above the southern Lebanese village of Bint Jbail, where Israel Defense Forces troops engaged Hezbollah guerillas in a fierce battle during the 2006 Second Lebanon War. After troops directed anti-aircraft fire at the unmanned aerial vehicle, the Lebanese army said, the drone rose to a higher altitude and then left Lebanese airspace. No word on whether there has been an Israeli reaction to the report. Michael Totten reports that the next war between Israel and Lebanon will be worse for both sides than the previous war was: Hezbollah is much more dangerous than any ...
The Threat of a Third Lebanese War
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Detailed over at Commentary:
Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah recently announced that he could hit any and every place in Israel with long-range missiles. That would mean that, unlike in 2006, Hezbollah could strike not only the northern cities of Kiryat Shmona and Haifa but also Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion International Airport, and the Dimona nuclear-power plant.
I dismissed his claim as a wild boast last week, but Israeli army commander Major General Gabi Ashkenazi confirmed it this week. So while we’ve all been ...
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