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Hezbollah Runs Massive Military Exercises, Lebanon Says It Was A "Simulation" And Complains When Israel Responds With Overflights

Lebanon's Che

Israel's just so unreasonable ya know:

Officials in Jerusalem acknowledged that there have indeed been aerial incursions over Lebanon, yet the objective is to prevent weapons smuggling from the Syrian border. "Hezbollah's weapons kill, the flights haven't killed anyone," an official said. Meanwhile, Israel told the UN that Hezbollah has tripled its arsenal of C-802 land-to-sea missiles and has rehabilitated its military strength north of the Litani River. The information was included in a report compiled by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1701, which brought the Second Lebanon War to an end.

It's not simply that Lebanon is unwilling or unable to take control of their own country from Hezbollah. It's not even that they then complain when Israel tries to figure out what's going on. It's that they're so pathetic when they make excuses for themselves:

Al-Akhbar, a pro-Hezbollah newspaper, had reported Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah personally supervised the maneuvers, which it said were carried out in the last three days and were the biggest ever staged on Israel's border by the Shiite Muslim militant group... Monday's report marked the first time Hezbollah, with its highly secretive military wing, revealed such exercises through a close newspaper. The maneuvers, if confirmed, could pose a major challenge to a UN-brokered cease-fire that ended last year's war with Israel. However, Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said authorities checked with military and police units as well as UN peacekeepers and they confirmed nothing on the ground really happened. "It was, let's say, a simulation probably, in an operation room, on the desk, probably they did such a thing, he said, speaking to Associated Press Television News at government headquarters. "This has been confirmed by all the sources."

Lebanon and the United Nations have "confirmed" that they are not in fact impotent in the face of Hezbollah's continuing warmongering. And they report this with unblinking, unironic seriousness as if they really expected people to believe them. Of course, they don't really expect that - they just trust that people will act as if they do.

References:
* Lebanon to UN: Israel breached truce deal hundreds of times [Ha'aretz]
* IAF drops flares over southern Lebanon coast after news of Hezbollah exercise [Ha'aretz]

Previously:
* Kids Being Brainwashed To Hate Jews In Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Gaza, Egypt, Iran, Etc Etc [Videos]
* Hezbollah Probably Lost the War, But They May Never Have Been In It To Win
* UN Building Hit in Lebanon. UN, AP blame Israel. Yawn.

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