At 8/11/06 05:40 PM, drDAK wrote:
From an innocent state that has been oppressed by Israel for years? Lebanon built Hezbollah to get rid of Israel in southern Lebanon. They then finally "left" (if you could call it that). Sure, they basically were breathing down Lebanons neck, sending troops in as they pleased without any regards to the fact that Lebanon was an independant nation.
1,000 is a big number.
Lebanon was part of the many attacks against Israel since 1948, Israel occupied parts of Lebanon after Lebanon attacked during the 1980s. Israel left Lebanon in 2000 because there was a peace deal with Lebanon brokered by the UN, and the only thing Lebanon needed to do in return for peace and freedom was to disarm Hezbollah, which they couldn't do, and DIDNT DO! Israel kept its promise to not attack Lebanon even though the lebanese government didn't keep its promise and allowed HEzbollah to mass on their southern border with ISrael and use LEbanon as a large ammo dump for Iranian and Syrian weapons. Syria still occupied Beirut until just a year ago, and were accused of intimidating the lebanese government into doing the will of syria, such as allowing Hezbollah to continue its arms build-up, thus preventing Lebanon from doing what it promised the UN it would do.
:Lebanon built Hezbollah...
WRONG Hezbollah is an Iranian and Syrian-created terrorist group and is funded by them, NOT LEBANON. Though, most of Hezbollah gorrillas are Lebanese, they swear allegiance to the Shiite cleric Khomeini who is Irans supreme religious leader and confidant of Ahmadinejad the President of Iran.
Therefore Hezbollah is just a tool of Iran used to impose their will on the middle east and use the Lebanese as a proxy in a broader Iranian-led war against Israel. Iran uses Hezbollah to attack Israel because if Iran used their own conventional military against ISrael, the world would cease dealing with Iran, AND the US and Israel would defeat Iran very quickly.
Also, Iran can use deniability, pretending they have nothing to do with the attacks on israel because they can claim hezbollah isn't part of Iran, even though they direct Hezbollah and give them all of their weapons along with Syria.