Hezbollah to Arab Countries: We're Losing the War. Quick, Someone Impose a Ceasefire.
How utterly and boringly predictable:
The following are excerpts from an interview with Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, which aired on Al-Manar TV on August 3, 2006. It is noteworthy that Nasrallah is now approaching Arab leaders and imploring them to raise their voices to demand a ceasefire, in their private meetings with the Americans. In the last few weeks, he has been reviling these leaders, saying that he needs no help from them and that they should "get off his back."
Remember, Nasrallah has defined victory as merely Hezbollah's survival in the face of IDF weaponry. The faster he can get the West to pull the reigns on Israel the sooner he can go on TV and crow about how he's humiliated the Zionist entity. At least we can all be confident that the Bush administration would never think of selling out Israeli security on the thin chance that they'll be able to appease radical Muslims... Sigh.
This "don't interfere" / "quick, someone impose a ceasefire before Israel really punishes us for starting this war" dynamic is practically stereotype of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In virtually every war, Israel's Arab enemies pompously swaggered about and boldly instructed everyone to stay out of the region - until they started losing, which is when they run and pathetically hid behind the UN's skirts. In 1967, Egypt expelled UN peacekeepers from the Sinai so that they could settle their scores with Israel. For months, they had been giving these booming speeches in the UN about how anything having to do with the Middle East was a local affair and about how the UN should stay out of the Egyptian-Israel dispute.
Then Israel had enough and - responding to the act of war that Egypt committed in closing down the Straights, as well as to the Egyptian President's public promise to wash the streets of Tel Aviv with Jewish blood - dealt severely with the Egyptian armed forces. The Egyptian ambassador to the UN was put in an impossible position - for months he had been telling the international community to stay out of the conflict, now he had to beg them to intervene and stop Israel. He gave a hurried speech and then rushed off the podium - later to be seen crying openly in the hallway because of how obvious his hypocrisy was.
The United Nations: where Israel's enemies go when Israel starts firing back.
The following are excerpts from an interview with Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, which aired on Al-Manar TV on August 3, 2006. It is noteworthy that Nasrallah is now approaching Arab leaders and imploring them to raise their voices to demand a ceasefire, in their private meetings with the Americans. In the last few weeks, he has been reviling these leaders, saying that he needs no help from them and that they should "get off his back."
Remember, Nasrallah has defined victory as merely Hezbollah's survival in the face of IDF weaponry. The faster he can get the West to pull the reigns on Israel the sooner he can go on TV and crow about how he's humiliated the Zionist entity. At least we can all be confident that the Bush administration would never think of selling out Israeli security on the thin chance that they'll be able to appease radical Muslims... Sigh.
This "don't interfere" / "quick, someone impose a ceasefire before Israel really punishes us for starting this war" dynamic is practically stereotype of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In virtually every war, Israel's Arab enemies pompously swaggered about and boldly instructed everyone to stay out of the region - until they started losing, which is when they run and pathetically hid behind the UN's skirts. In 1967, Egypt expelled UN peacekeepers from the Sinai so that they could settle their scores with Israel. For months, they had been giving these booming speeches in the UN about how anything having to do with the Middle East was a local affair and about how the UN should stay out of the Egyptian-Israel dispute.
Then Israel had enough and - responding to the act of war that Egypt committed in closing down the Straights, as well as to the Egyptian President's public promise to wash the streets of Tel Aviv with Jewish blood - dealt severely with the Egyptian armed forces. The Egyptian ambassador to the UN was put in an impossible position - for months he had been telling the international community to stay out of the conflict, now he had to beg them to intervene and stop Israel. He gave a hurried speech and then rushed off the podium - later to be seen crying openly in the hallway because of how obvious his hypocrisy was.
The United Nations: where Israel's enemies go when Israel starts firing back.
