Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000. The withdrawal was certified by United Nations and the State Department, both of which unequivocally stated that Israel was no longer occupying even an inch of Lebanese territory. So what’s a genocidal Shiite fanatic waging a divinely mandated jihad on the thinnest territorial claim to do? Hezbollah had Syria declare that that Har Dov aka the Sheba Farms – land Israel took from Syria in 1967 – was actually Lebanese land. Done and done.
Naturally the UN and the State Department openly ridiculed and mocked this claim since it’s pretty obviously a pretext to keep killing Jews. But the thing about being a genocidal lunatic in a world of appeasers is that if you wait long enough and threaten loud enough someone will eventually try to appease you. So Hezbollah just unblinkingly insisted year after year that they were out to “liberate” this newly-discovered Lebanese territory, and that’s why they were fighting Israel.
And just like clockwork, the UN and the State Department started pressuring Israel to leave Har Dov. The exact same trick is now being pulled about the border village of Ghajar, which the UN and State Department – based on Hezbollah’s input – have suddenly discovered is Lebanese territory that Israel should give up.
Because honestly – how could appeasing genocidal lunatics possibly go wrong?
A senior Hezbollah official on Monday said the Lebanese militant organization believes that large swaths of northern Israel belong to Lebanon, far beyond the line Israel pulled back to in 2000. “The Zionist terror organizations moved the border from that of 1920 to that of 1923, and Lebanon lost seven villages and twenty farms. One must be cautious before moving the border to the Blue Line, because then Lebanon will lose millions of square meters,” said Nawaf Musawi, head of international relations for Hezbollah… Musawi, who is known as the group’s “foreign minister,” made the comments at the close of a meeting with the Norwegian ambassador to Lebanon… The official’s comments mean that Hezbollah has territorial demands beyond the disputed Shaba Farms in the Golan Heights and the divided northern village of Ghajar. While various Lebanese Shi’ite figures have made these demands in the past, Hezbollah has abstained from doing so in recent years.
Yeah of course he said it in an official meeting with a foreign ambassador. That’s where people always threaten to start unprovoked wars, right. And of course these villages only became Lebanese territory once Israel started talking about withdrawing from Har Dov and Ghajar. Any earlier would have spoiled the nudge-wink “we’re fighting Israel over territory” charade.
References:
* In Just Seven Short Paragraphs, Jimmy Carter Tells 2 Lies, Makes 2 Incoherent Arguments, Takes an Anti-Israel Stance that the State Department Mocks, and Just Generally Annoys the Hell Out of Us [MR]
* The UN Makes It Official: There Is Absolutely No Agreement That Won’t Be Changed If Israel’s Genocidal Enemies Refuse To Accept For Long Enough [MR]
* State Department Ready To Pull Entirely Predictable Anti-Israel Bait And Switch On Har Dov [MR]
* ‘Israel backs withdrawing from Ghajar’ [JPost]
* Hezbollah: Large swaths of north Israel belong to Lebanon [Ha'aretz]
Previously:
* Arab And Muslim Countries Reject French Book Fair Because It’s Just Too Jewish
* Hezbollah: We’re Going To Commit Genocide To Avenge That Mughniyah Guy Who Never Had Anything To Do With Us
* UNIFIL Soldiers Catch Hezbollah Moving Weapons, Get Shooed Away
