Sunday 12 July 2009

Three Years on Israeli War, Lebanon remembers the 33 days of Israeli defeat

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July 12, 2009



Resistance (hand)-sign says South Lebanon


Mabrook (congrats) to the Lebanese people and all the free people in this world and the supporters of justice.

I recall on July 12, 2006 my mom and I had a appointment at the dentist. After we left the dr. office we went to do some shopping and in one of the shops the lady there had a TV and she was very excited and happy, the news said that the Islamic resistance captured 2 Israeli soldiers then she offered us sweets. In the morning of that day no one knew the Israelis will move forward their attack scheduled in Sep-Oct. to July but they ended up being not only defeated but their whole propaganda about being invincible showed to be nothing but a big fat lie.

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Three Years on Israeli War, Lebanon Celebrates Divine Victory

12/07/2009 Three years have passed…

Three years have passed since the Israeli enemy launched its devastating war against Lebanon, just after the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon was able to achieve a heroic operation and detain two Israeli soldiers whose fate remained ambiguous until the moment of the operation’s “fruit,” the release of all Lebanese detainees in Israeli Prisons…

Three years have passed on the war that ended with a divine victory for Lebanon against the Israeli enemy that’s still seeking to “learn lessons” and take “revenge” for its unprecedented defeat…

The 2006 Lebanon War, known in Lebanon as the July War and in Israel as the Second Lebanon War, was a 33-day Israeli aggression against Lebanon. The war began on 12 July, when Israel launched waves of air strikes on Lebanon after Hezbollah killed three soldiers and captured two more – later identified as Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev – on the northern border naming it “Operation Sincere Promise”.

The war began when Israeli warplanes bombed Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport. Later, large parts of the Lebanese civilian infrastructure were destroyed claiming that they wanted to cut off roads on any coming supply for Hezbollah. The civilian infrastructure included roads, bridges, and other targets such as ports, water and sewage treatment plants, electrical facilities, fuel stations, commercial structures, schools and hospitals, and homes.

During the war, Israel’s Air Force flew more than 12,000 combat missions, its Navy fired 2,500 shells, and its Army fired over 100,000 shells. Israeli shells didn’t spare innocent people and children whom their flesh and blood were shed with daily massacres everywhere across Lebanon.

During the war also, Hezbollah fired rockets on Israeli military bases they also engaged in guerrilla warfare with the Israeli forces, attacking from well-fortified positions. These attacks by small, well-armed units caused serious problems to the Israeli military, especially through the use of hundreds of sophisticated anti-tank guided missiles. Hezbollah destroyed 38 Israeli Merkava and damaged 82, the Merkava which is an object of pride for the Israeli industry. Israeli helicopters were damaged day and night. . The attacks had included a Fajr-3 and a Ra’ad 1. Hezbollah also destroyed Israeli warship Sa’er off the Lebanese coast.

BERRI: LEBANON DEFEATED ISRAEL THANKS TO NATIONAL UNITY

Meanwhile, and in the third anniversary of the war, Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said in a statement issued on Sunday that Lebanon’s strength has always been in the country’s true holding of its internal elements and political unity.

Berri issued his tribute to the lives of all those that gave their lives “from the military and the resistance only to register a wonderful historical and glorious epoch for our people.”
Berri expressed his hope that the next Lebanese government would place the issue of compensation and that of the Litani River project at the top of its priorities.

SALLOUKH: LEBANON TAUGHT ISRAEL AN UNFORGETTABLE LESSON

For his part, Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh said that Lebanon’s people and army taught Israel an unforgettable lesson in 2006 adding that the third anniversary of this war should work on speeding the formation of a national unity government.

“This defeat forced Israel to seek to issue threats and to daily violate Lebanese sovereignty and United Nations Security Council resolution 1701 that Lebanon fully commits to,” Salloukh said.

The foreign minister who left Beirut on Sunday to Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt to attend the Non-Aligned Movement’s foreign ministers meeting, called for strengthening the country’s national unity via a speedy formation of a national unity government.


Fmr. IDF Chief: "..Lebanon war not connected to abductions.."



Ynetnews, here
"... but "was based on the need to mount a forceful campaign."

Posted by G, Z, & or B at 1:12 PM


'Third Time's a Charm!"


"...A document from 1982, of which large portions have not been published until now, confirms the suspicion that this is an illusion. The date at the top, July 12, is the same date the war began three years ago. In 1982, however, the war began on June 6 and was followed by more than a month of very murderous stomping around. The Israel Defense Forces imposed a siege on Beirut, waiting for a policy decision....

In a discussion on July 12, Begin expressed bitterness toward Reagan's envoy, ambassador Philip Habib - "He really drives me crazy, he's a sick man." These are words Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might use today to refer to special envoy George Mitchell, who like Habib is of Lebanese origin...."
Posted by G, Z, & or B at 1:20 PM

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