Via Friday-Lunch-Club
“[Barak] I reiterate: In the place where the incident took place, the fence is tens of meters inside Israeli territory. Therefore, even if we cross the fence, we don’t get into Lebanese territory. It is all a provocation. And anyway, they didn’t fire on the tractor, they fired on the battalion commander and the deputy commander who were standing along with a few people in an IDF outpost on Israeli territory a few hundred meters away. To make the story short, it was grave. There is no need to elaborate: The Lebanese Army carried out a grave act, the Lebanese Army and the Lebanese Government are responsible for it. It’s part of the recently escalating acts of provocation.”The point that immediately comes to mind and that the Defense Attache and the Pentagon folks in general must be scrambling on is: Did the LAF use sniper gear supplied by the US to kill the Israeli?Remember that this was a point of extreme controversy after Nahr al-Barid because, according to some reports, the LAF was granted sniper rifles BUT they had to be returned after the conflict – which really pissed off some LAF folks. Some of the US press releases have, after that time, referred to the “same front line” weapons as US troops and one, if I remember correctly, did refer to sniper gear.If the Israelis did indeed want to strike a good blow against LAF funding now winding its way to actual appropriation and transfer etc – well this incident is a perfect punctuation point…. Not that such a conspiracy would ever be thought of, much less executed….
River to Sea
Uprooted Palestinian
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