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Lebanese Air Force To Go To War With IAF?

Saniora is trying to act like Lebanon is a real country. How adorable:

Prime Minister Fuad Saniora on Thursday ordered the Lebanese Armed Forces to respond to Israeli threats to Lebanese sovereignty, following clashes that broke out between the LAF and IDF troops on the northern border late Wednesday night, Israel Radio reported. Saniora denounced what he called Israel's violation of the Lebanese border, telling UN envoy Geir Pedersen that his government condemned the "new Israeli aggression on Lebanon's sovereignty and the violation of the Blue Line."

We'd have a lot more respect for this attempt if Lebanon actually had any sovereignty over their border. Or for that matter, over the south of their country. Iran has more say-so about what happens in southern Lebanon than the duly elected government of Lebanon. Israel isn't making overflights of Lebanon, they're making overflights of Hezbollahstan.

Now if you were a simple-minded liberal, anti-Zionist lunatic, or Kos commenter (but we repeat ourselves...) you would be screaming about how this is Israel's fault because it keeps violating Lebanese airspace. This would be overlooking the fact that Lebanon has still not fulfilled its most basic obligation under UN resolutions and ceasefires - to disarm Hezbollah and take control of their own damn southern border. The IAF overflights are a direct result of Lebanon's utter failure, since Israel has to know what kind of weapons Hezbollah is smuggling in and where they're planting their bombs (which they're recently taken to doing again):

"The main problem," Peretz said during the meetings, "isn't on the Lebanese border, but on the Syrian border, where weapons are constantly being smuggled to Hizbullah. The decision for them to come and transfer arms is a decisive one. We absolutely can't ignore it."

So spare us the odes to Lebanese sovereignty.

References:
* Saniora tells LAF to counter IDF threats [JPost]
* Outrage Of The Day: UNIFIL Allowed Hezbollah To Plant Bombs [MR]

Previously:
* Lebanon PM Has a Plan - Israel Will Stop Defending Itself, and Then Hezbollah Will Be Disarmed By the Make Believe Army that Exists Only in His Mind. Brilliant!
* Israel Does Everyone's Dirty Work, Gets Condemned Anyway
* Hezbollah To Lebanon: Nice Country You Got Here... Be a Real Shame If Anything Happened To It, uni

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