Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Nobody was paying attention to Israel
So Israel's unhinged Prime Minister Ben Bugsy Netanyahu decided to drop some bombs on Lebanon. This is always a surefire way to get Hezbollah stirred up. And, as previous encounters have shown, definitely not a win-win situation for the Israeli military.
Hezbollah said Wednesday that Israel had carried out an airstrike in Lebanon earlier in the week, targeting one of its positions near the border with Syria. The attack marks a new level of escalation in a region beset by chaos, bloodshed and waves of refugees.This is not good. If the Israeli military needs more live fire drills, they should stick to bombing Gaza and shooting kids with slings on the West Bank.
Hezbollah, an armed Shia Muslim group allied with Iran and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, vowed to retaliate for the strike.
"The new aggression is a blatant assault on Lebanon and its sovereignty and its territory ... The resistance (Hezbollah) will choose the time and place and the proper way to respond to it," Hezbollah said in a statement.
The strike, which Israel confirmed, hit the Lebanese-Syrian border near the Bekaa Valley village of Janta, Hezbollah said. The group denied reports that the strike targeted artillery, adding that there were no casualties.
Lebanese security sources said they believed the attack took place on Syrian soil, but Hezbollah's reference to Lebanese sovereignty suggests it occurred on the Lebanese side of the ill-defined frontier.
Israeli planes have struck areas on the Syrian side of the border several times in the past two years. But if confirmed, an airstrike on Hezbollah in Lebanon would be the first since the Syrian revolt began in 2011.
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