אז מי ניצח? SO, Who Won ? Israel or Hezbollah?
בשלב הלחימה צה"ל פגע פגיעה חמורה מאוד בלוחמי חזבאללה – מאות מהם נהרגו ובעיקר מהיחידות המובחרות שלו. תשתיות החזבאללה שכללו בונקרים מבוטנים, אמצעי קשר משוכללים ונשקים מתקדמים נהרסו לחלוטין בקו הגבול, ונפגעו קשה בכל מרחב הלחימה. צבא לבנון נפרס כרגע בדרום לבנון לראשונה מזה עשרות שנים ובניגוד לרצון המקורי של נסראללה.
נסראללה נאבק על עתידו הפוליטי בלבנון. חיילי צה"ל יוצאים בשירה מהשטח ועם מוטיבציה גדולה לחזור אם נצטרך. ינצח מי שיישאר מאמין בצדקתו בסופו של התהליך ומאוחד כעם.

During the recent battles and combat, the IDF hit the Hezbollah very hard and killed hundreds of the most elite Hezbollah fighters . Hezbollah's foundations in Southern Lebanon , fortified bunkers and telecommunications, advanced weapons systems, along the Israel - Lebanon border have suffered heavy damage.
The Lebanese army is being deployed along the border area for the first time in decades in spite of Nasrallah's resistance to this move. Nasrallah himself is fighting for his own political survival in Lebanon. The IDF is pulling out of Lebanon in high spirits and with complete motivation to go back and do what is necessary whenever they are called upon to do it.
The winner is he who knows how right is his cause and how united is his nation.

--With thanks to Tzvia from Kfar Sava

Live Fast - Die Young
It should be noted that the dreaded, Hezbollah Special Security Forces, have begun a massive hunt for spies within their ranks. Mossad has penetrated Hezbollah at levels so high up that the operatives mark out Hezbollah positions with special chemicals ( known as painting a target) so that the Israel Air Force could more easily pinpoint their strikes on Hezbollah command and control.
In a witch - hunt like this, lots of Hezbollah regulars who are actually completely loyal to Nasrallah will be swept up in the big net and executed. No trial and no 401K.
(Now , who will want to join an organization with that sort of out-placement policy?)

Hezbollah chiefs are spending a lot of time looking over their shoulders and wondering how many of their recruits are actually "with the program" and how many are actually Israeli Spies who are painting them as the IDF's next targets. Visit Debkafile for more info.
--REBoston

Why I am proud to be a Jew

With war raging in the Middle East, with global terror reaching new heights, with global anti-Semitism on the rise, I thought it might be a good time to reflect on why I'm proud, more than ever, to be a Jew.

I'm proud to be a Jew because Jews don't kidnap.

I'm proud to be a Jew because Jewish education does not consist of teaching martyrdom and hatred.

I'm proud to be a Jew because my religious leaders and religious services don't whip me into a frenzy to kill others.

I'm proud to be a Jew because in the middle of a war, Jews still demonstrate and protest to protect the rights of the Arab-Israeli minority to voice their opposition to the war.

I'm proud to be a Jew because even when Israel is wrongly and falsely accused of killing innocent civilians, Jewish leaders apologize immediately for any loss of life - instead of celebrating these deaths by passing out candy and shooting celebratory gunshots into the air.

When the world accuses Israel of massacre in Jenin - when the world accuses Israel of bombing civilians on a Gaza beach - when the world accuses Israel of shooting a child cowering against a wall - when the world accuses Israel of bombing a Lebanese apartment building killing 56 civilians - when all of these accusations turn out to be totally false - to be vicious anti -Semitic lies - and when all along I knew in my heart that these stories just could not be true - and I'm later proven to be right - then I'm proud to be a Jew.

I'm proud to be a Jew because the Israeli Army is so, so good, that when it takes more than four weeks to wipe out a sophisticated enemy who has prepared six years for this war, the world criticizes the IDF for not getting the job done quickly.

I'm proud to be a Jew when my army, the Israeli army, drops leaflets and makes calls to Lebanese citizens on their cell phones to warn them to evacuate before bombing begins.

I'm proud to be a Jew when the democracies of the world talk about fighting the war on terror, but only Israel is left alone to bear the burden of eradicating Hezbollah, the proxy army of Iran and Syria.

I'm proud to be a Jew when entire Israeli towns in the north-Nahariya, Kiryat Shimona, Safed, are reduced to ghost towns due to the constant shelling, and yet not one looter has appeared to empty out the property of others.

When Israel must defend its very right to exist, when it must fight a well armed enemy representing the Islamic fascists, as President Bush has called them, when Israel must conduct this war on terror with its hands tied behind its back so as not to take an innocent life lest the media have something true to report, that it must fight this war of survival under the cloud of "disproportionality", as if thousands of Katusha rockets falling on its citizenry is somehow "proportionate"- when Israel simultaneously pushes back these threats both in the North and in the South under the added pressure of a biased media, then I'm proud to be a Jew.

I'm proud to be a Jew when the Edinburgh Scottish film festival tells an Israeli director to stay home although his film is being screened and the director says "No, I'm coming."

I'm proud to be a Jew because Mel Gibson is not a Jew.

I'm proud to be a Jew when the UN's Human Rights Commission consists of countries like Syria, Libya and Iran and Israel is not asked to join.

I'm proud to be a Jew when magician David Blaine announces his trip to Israel next week to entertain the children living in bomb shelters and tells the press he's doing it to encourage other performers to stand up for Israel and its right to defend itself.

I'm proud to be a Jew when a Russian/Israeli businessman single-handedly creates not one but two tent cities on the beach to house Israelis fleeing the North and provides shelter, bedding, food and drink, showers and bathrooms - all done without red tape in a matter of 24 hours - to house over 6,000 Israeli's, one of whom described it as a "poor man's Club Med."

I am proud to be a Jew when Israelis on the left and on the right support the government's decision to fight - when 97% of the country is united in its own defense - when Israeli's from Jerusalem give shelter to families from Haifa - when food from the Negev is donated to feed soldiers at the front - when the IDF deploys soldiers on special assignments to deliver diapers to shelters and to entertain and calm the frightened children.

I'm proud to be a Jew when the three weeks preceding Tisha B'Av reminds us of the terrible things we have endured as a people and as a nation - and yet immediately thereafter, Hashem offers us consolation, redemption and hope - plus the promise that we shall defeat our enemies, that we shall endure, that Am Yisrael Chai.

And I am proud to be a Jew because when we proclaim that God is on our side, we have the book to prove it. Reprinted from ARTZENU http://artzenu.blogspot.com

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THE ABDICATION OF LEBANESE LEADERS. State of Denial by Michael Béhé

Michael Behe July 30,2006

“Before the Israeli attack, Lebanon no longer existed, it was no more than a hologram.” This is what the Lebanese journalist, Michael Behe, wrote on July 30. His commentary was posted on the website of the Metula News Agency in Beirut. To understand the Lebanese situation, it helps to know that, despite a history that dates back to biblical times, modern Lebanon was literally the invention of Western powers, England and France, after WWI in 1920. It became independent of France in the early 1940s.

In Memeory of Rafik Hariri - Murdered by Syrian Agents

Then, in the 1970s, the Palestinians, driven out of Jordan and elsewhere, moved in. Doing what they do best, they started a civil war and, in 1978, after a Palestine Liberation Organization attack killed 37 Israeli civilians, Israel launched an offensive to drive them away from its northern border.

In 1982, Israel again invaded in response to attacks. Christian Lebanese troops entered Palestinian refugee camps and massacred hundreds. The era of the Palestinians was over, but by the next decade its successor, Hezbollah, was routinely shelling Israel, provoking Israeli military responses. After a long occupation of southern Lebanon, in 2000 Israel decided to withdraw its troops. On February 14, 2005, Rafiq al-Hariri, a former prime minister of Lebanon, was assassinated in Beirut. His death points back to Damascus. He had become an outspoken opponent to the Syrian occupation of Lebanon that had begun 1976, a year after the outbreak of the civil war. In the years that followed, thousands of Lebanese were brutally imprisoned or killed by Syrian occupiers. By 1991, the domination of Lebanon by Syria had been formalized with a defense and security agreement. This was followed two years later by an economic agreement in which Lebanon’s true status as a colony of Syria was made official. Hariri’s assassination generated a rally in which the streets of Beirut filled with anti-Syrian Lebanese. It was dubbed the “Cedar Revolution” and lasted about five minutes. Days later, on March 8, 2005 Hezbollah was able to put over a million other Lebanese into the streets. This was followed by an election that was so gerrymandered only pro-Syrian candidates had any chance of being elected. Hezbollah had reinvented itself as a political party. Under intense international pressure, Syria prudently removed its troops from Lebanon after the Hariri assassination. An earlier 2004 United Nations Security Council resolution 1559 demanding this action had been ignored. The various elected governments of Lebanon had turned a blind eye to the growth of Hezbollah. Funded and trained by Iran and supplied through Syria, Hezbollah was in charge. As Behe noted, there were parts of Beirut where its own citizens, including its police and army, were forbidden access. “A square measuring a kilometer wide, a capital within the capital, permanently guarded by the (Hezbollah) army, possessing its own institution, its schools, its tribunals, its radio, its television and above all, its government.” It was precisely this part of Beirut the Israeli air force destroyed. The rest of the city, as of July 30, was left intact.

The problem for Lebanon is the problem for the world. Muslims resist or are restrained from living in a modern sovereign, secular nation. Iraq was secular because a dictator made it that way. Turkey was secular because its modern founder, Ataturk, turned it toward Europe in 1925 and away from Muslim traditions and governance. Modern Lebanon's problem is demography. In 1943 when its constitution was established, a “national pact” insured representation by both Christians and Muslims with top offices being allocated to each group. Today, Muslims are the largest part of Lebanon’s population, easily 75% or more. The Lebanese government failed its citizens and the Lebanese who voted Hezbollah politicians into power betrayed their nation.

Lebanon today is an imaginary nation. Destroyed by the Palestinians led by Yassir Arafat, occupied by Syria, Lebanon is now nothing more than the tool of Iranians who are busy preparing their own people for a war with the Israelis, the British, and the Americans. And how long are we going to wait around until they achieve that? How long was Israel supposed to wait while Lebanon/Hezbollah/Iran continued to kidnap its soldiers and shoot rockets into their homeland? The Palestinians of Hamas were enough of nuisance in their own right, but Hezbollah was a real army and one that has been trained and armed by the Iranians. In the last world war, America, Britain, and other allied nations expended years and thousands of lives to win against the dictatorships of Germany and Japan. In the end, we demanded and got "unconditional surrender." That is what we are going to need to do in the Middle East to free ourselves from the threat of the Islamic Jihad.

Apple Crops Rotted in the Fields While Hezbollah Rockets Rained Down on Civilians in Kiryat Shemona.



Israelis Repair
Kiriyat Shemonah War Damage

COUNTDOWN TO THE NEXT WAR
Israel’s Intelligence Chiefs Warn:

Hezbollah War Is Relocating to Gaza

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

August 30, 2006, 1:22 AM (GMT+02:00)

Israel’s intelligence chiefs have formed a new lobby to put their warnings in the public domain when they see the Olmert government failing to properly address grave security threats to the country.

The first to speak out was the Shin Bet director, Yuval Diskin.

He represented the heads of AMAN-military intelligence and the Mosad when he revealed to the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee Tuesday, Aug. 29, that Palestinian terrorists, notably Hamas, were employing Hizballah’s Lebanon tactics and building a Katyusha deployment, bunker network and anti-tank missile arsenal in the Gaza Strip. The northern West Bank, he said, had been taken over by Hizballah agents and radical Jihad Islami terrorists since its evacuation by Israel at the same time as the Gaza Strip last summer.

This was the Shin Bet director’s first appearance as spokesman of the new intelligence grouping.

It is made up of the heads of the three intelligence services, Diskin, AMAN’s Maj.-Gen Amos Yadlin and Meir Dagan, head of the Mossad, as well as the counter-terror departments of these services and of the IDF Southern Command.

In the wake of the Lebanon war, these security chiefs have resolved to stand guard over Israel’s national security interests against any strategic misjudgments of prime minister Ehud Olmert, defense minister Amir Peretz and chief of staff Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the heads of the lobby are convinced that the Palestinian menace to Israel is as a great as Hizballah’s in Lebanon and becoming more acute.

They are campaigning for the Israeli army to reoccupy the Gaza-Egyptian border strip known as the Philadelphi route and propose a security zone one kilometer wide to run from Kerem Shalom to the Mediterranean and cut the Gaza Strip off from Sinai.

Since Israeli troops departed the Philadelphi border enclave last summer – with the rest of the Gaza Strip - weapons smuggling and terrorist traffic between Egypt and Gaza has been flourishing.

Diskin’s portrayal of Sinai as a paradise for international weapons traffickers and a strategic threat to Israel was timed to caution Olmert against further concessions on Lebanon to the visiting UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, in consideration of the strong Hizballah-Palestinian interchanges and reciprocity.

DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources reveal: Israel’s security chiefs have learned of a decision by Hizballah to keep its head down in S. Lebanon for the time being, while secretly opening two new anti-Israel fronts in the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank. This transposition of Hizballah’s war against Israel to the Palestinian arena has begun to materialize.

Three times as many Hizballah officers are traveling to the Gaza Strip by sea as before the war and deliveries of weapons systems have doubled, with Iranian support. Very large quantities of Katyusha rockets and anti-tank missiles are pouring into the Gaza Strip together with hundreds of RPG-29 rocket-propelled grenades and Grad rockets.

Intelligence leaders are warning the prime minister that if this influx is not scotched forthwith, southern Israel will find itself face to face with a second Hizballah front ready to go active in the second half of October.

The Hizballah master plan consists of three parts:

1. Its fighting units with the help of the Lebanese army (40% of which are Shiites) are pretending to remove themselves with their weapons from South Lebanon. Lebanese prime minister Fouad Siniora happily announced Tuesday that Hizballah had enabled the national army to intercept an arms consignment from Syria in the Lebanese Beqaa Valley. In Tyre, Hizballah fighters surrendered their weapons to Lebanese troops.

Nasrallah will allow a deceptive calm to reign as UN forces move into position, to satisfy them that Security Council resolution 1701 is being upheld, including the institution of an arms-free and militia-free zone in the south. It will last until Hizballah and its Tehran masters are ready for the next round.

2. This calm will contrast meanwhile with the opening of a Hizballah-Hamas front on Israel’s southwest border to replicate the Hizballah rocket offensive against northern Israel which was halted by the UN-brokered ceasefire two weeks ago. Israel’s Negev communities will be targeted instead of Galilee. But Israel’s hands for retaliating against Hizballah will be tied by the presence of the international force in Lebanon.

3. Olmert is sternly warned by Israel’s security chiefs on no account to buy the security arrangements he and his predecessors accepted for Israel’s southern border last year. Neither the Egyptian police contingents nor the European border inspectors have honored agreements signed at the time and caught a single terrorist or stopped a single weapons delivery smuggled in from Sinai to Gaza.

Diskin and Co. see the same pattern taking shape in south Lebanon.

He stressed to the lawmakers in Jerusalem that he felt bound to lay all this intelligence data before them in detail so that the intelligence community would not be blamed after the fact with failing to warn the country of the hazards in store, as it was after the Lebanon war.

THIS JUST IN -8/31/06- IDF GIVATI BRIGADE

TUNNEL WARS AT KARNI CROSSING

The IDF killed eight Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in air strikes and gun battles, as the army continued its sweep in search of tunnels used for smuggling arms and perpetrating attacks.
Soldiers from the Givati Brigade have been operating in the Gaza City neighborhood of Shajaiyeh since Saturday and have so far killed at least 25 Hamas Operatives, while wounding another 15.
The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) revealed that in a joint operation with the IDF, soldiers discovered a large tunnel extending more than 150 meters from a home in Shajaiyeh to the Israeli-run Karni cargo crossing. The tunnel, security officials said, was to have been used by terrorists to launch an attack against the Israeli side of the crossing.
"This was an advanced tunnel that the Palestinian Authority invested a lot of money in," said Col. Moni Katz, commander of the Northern Gaza Brigade. "We found equipment inside that we assume was meant to be used in an attack against the Karni crossing."
Katz said that the IDF believes that additional tunnels were being dug in the area and that it was still too early to reopen Karni, which has been closed for the past several weeks due to the terror threat.
Later in the day, troops discovered and destroyed two Kassam launchers, used earlier that day to fire rockets at communities in the South.
On Tuesday, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin, told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Palestinians were currently digging some 20 tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border.
"Except for tanks and planes, they are smuggling everything," Diskin told the committee.
Early Wednesday morning, the IDF fired an artillery shell at a Palestinian anti-tank cell and killed three of its members. Later, another two Palestinians were killed by IDF gunfire. At least one of those killed was a gunman and another was shot while trying to launch a rocket-propelled grenade, doctors and security officials said.

DEBKAfile Exclusive: Hassan Nasrallah’s apologetic speech Sunday night contrasts starkly with his rapid rearmament of Hizballah‘s war machine

August 27, 2006, 11:32 PM (GMT+02:00)

Hizballah’s leader said in a broadcast speech Sunday night that he would not have ordered the kidnap of two Israeli soldiers had he know it would lead to war.

DEBKAfile reveals the other side of the picture: While saying mildly that in his view a second round of the war is not indicated, Nasrallah has just finished reconstituting his Southern Nasser Brigade command (short range Katyusha rockets) in the port town of Tyre after collecting its elements form various south Lebanese villages to the east. His fighters reached Tyre at the same time as French UNIFIL troops landed in the same port but were not noticed by the TV cameras focusing on the French landings.

DEBKAfile’s Beirut sources report Nasrallah goes in fear of an Israeli attempt on his life. Hizballah’s re-armament is therefore proceeding cautiously, rapidly and inconspicuously. For the same reason, he appears to be avoiding a meeting with the UN secretary Kofi Annan who is due in Beirut this week. The local UN office is trying to set up this meeting because Annan would regard as a major feat of diplomacy. However Nasrallah is afraid its venue would leak out and Israeli warplanes would find him.

Similarly, he has called off a victory parade he had planned to stage next week in the southern Beirut Shiite suburb of Dahya among the ruins left by Israeli air strikes. Nasrallah had planned to stand on a platform and take the salute of his armed men as they marched past with Fajer-3 and Fajer-5 rockets. This would have shown the Israelis that Hizballah’s rocket might was still intact after their bombardment. But an intelligence tip-off that the Israeli air force and navy were waiting to bomb the parade persuaded him to cancel the event.

With Thanks to http://www.debka.com/

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Hezbollah Handing Out Bogus Cash?

Perhaps you saw the images in your newspaper or on television:

“A Lebanese man counts U.S dollar bills received from Hizbollah members in a school in Bourj el-Barajneh, a southern suburb of Beirut, August 19, 2006. Hizbollah handed out bundles of cash on Friday to people whose homes were wrecked by Israeli bombing, consolidating the Iranian-backed group’s support among Lebanon’s Shiites and embarrassing the Beirut government. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (LEBANON)”

This scene and dozens more like it flashed around the planet. Only one thing was missing—the thin wire security strip that runs from top to bottom of a genuine US$100 bill. The money Hezbollah was passing was counterfeit, as should have been evident to anybody who studied the photographs with due care.

Care was due because of Hezbollah’s history of counterfeiting: In June, 2004, the U.S. Department of the Treasury publicly cited Hezbollah as one of the planet’s leading forgers of U.S. currency.

But this knowledge was disregarded by the news organizations who queued up to publicize Hezbollah’s pseudo-philanthropy. The passing of counterfeit bills was detected not by the reporters and photographers on the spot, but by bloggers thousands of miles away: SnappedShots.com, MyPetJawa and Charles Johnson’s Little Green Footballs. These sites magnified photographs and showed them to currency experts and detected irregularity after irregularity in the bills. (Links to all the sites mentioned here can be found at frum.nationalreview.com)

Maybe it’s too much to expect journalists to be currency experts. But one does expect them to be able to detect a manipulated photograph, especially a crudely manipulated one. Yet it was again Charles Johnson—who is a professional musician by the way—and not a news editor, who caught Reuters distributing faked photographs by its now infamous Lebanese staff photographer, Adnan Hajj.

Hajj used Photoshop software to make fires in Lebanese cities look larger than they were and to transform photos of Israeli signal flares into apparent images of missiles in full flight. For this and other faked pictures, Hajj was fired and Reuters removed almost a thousand of his photographs from its archive.

But the scandal of Lebanese war coverage only begins with Hajj; it does not end there—nowhere close.

6:25 PM PDT
With Thanks, to Little Green Footballs.

Pierre Rehov Explains How and Why the Press is Anti Israel

with thanks - http://www.afsi.org/MEDIA/reasonforbias.htm
Pierre Rehov answered the question of why the press so anti-Israel in an interview with Jamie Glasov (Suicide Killers, frontpagemag.com 12/12/05)

FP: Why do you think such a large percentage of the international media supports Arab propaganda? Why is anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel so cutting edge and fashionable?

Rehov: There are many complicated reasons for that. First of all, let's quickly review this good old anti-Semitism which is crawling nowadays among left wing intellectuals, Jews being represented as the rich and powerful, as opposed to the poor Palestinians. So-said intellectuals love things simple to understand, powerful images, such as Che Guevara being a hero, and Arafat's Kefieh representing a symbol of resistance against oppression.

After the explosion of communism and the USSR empire, communism has been exposed as an evil, intolerant, oppressive and inefficient system. I cannot imagine what must have happened to people who, in good will, saw Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro... or the red Khmers as symbols of their beliefs. They then had to identify with a new cause, a new set of poor to protect and defend with ideas.

A lot of journalists, in very good faith, think of themselves as intellectuals and freedom fighters at the same time. They believe that they are the last real adventurers of this world and they keep deep inside the pride of being the only counter-power to governments. This is healthy, as long as it doesn't become perverted.

In the field, actually, when you have to work in the Palestinian territories, the game itself is perverted. One has to remember that there is no freedom, no security in the Territories.

Journalists risk their life, but maybe less than in Iraq, and definitely less than in most African countries, not to talk about Chechnia or Tibet.

The Israel-Palestinian conflict is for them an easy way to stay, in their mind, the heroes that they believe themselves to be. It is so easy to just stay safely inside Israel, send a Palestinian team to do the work, and then, when everything is set, to appear in front of a camera with a bullet proof vest and a helmet.

The price to pay, though, is that you then have to send only the kind of news that Palestinians want you to spread. You end up on prime time with this simplistic image of a poor Palestinian kid throwing a stone at a tank. Nobody then wonders, what is this kid doing on a battle field ? Where are the parents? Who is this guy hiding behind him with a kalachnikov? Would the kid be there if this was really dangerous? How old is the soldier facing him? Perhaps only two years older... etc.

Once a journalist told me: "We have 30 seconds to tell this prime time story called "Intifada Al Aqsa." The story was written by Palestinians and Israel plays the bad guys. Write your own scenario and the media will buy it.

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Hey Look , It's Green Helmet Guy Again.
Gee , he sure gets around and in all the photos.
First we see him helping out in Kana , now, here he turns
up in in the coastal city of Tyre. What a coincidence!


From the three photographers, we have four pictures. The first, shown above left, is from AP's Ben Curtis, who offers this by way of a caption:

Emergency workers rush to remove the lifeless body of a victim of an Israeli missile strike in Tyre, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006. Israel continued its bombardment of Tyre and surrounding areas Sunday and its assault on southern Lebanon.

The second photograph is also from Ben Curtis (above right), while the third is from Al Reuter's Zohra Bensemra, who took a picture of the dead baby at Qana. He offers this caption:

A Lebanese rescue worker talks to his colleagues next to the body of Ali Reda Ghabun, who was killed in an Israeli air strike, at the government hospital in the southern port city of Tyre (Soure) August 6, 2006.

Notice Green Helmet Guy is right there on the job
just as the photographer shows up to help stage this
photo of a dead body.
Lights, Camera ; Green Helmet Guy ready?
Quiet on the set! ACTION!!!

Notice also that the body has a
severed arm which is lying neatly
next to the body so that you will know
that the arm has been severed. An air strike
would normally strew these body parts all over the place.
But let's say it was all done this neatly.
Where is the blood from the severed artery?

NY TIMES Photographer Busted in Hezbollah Photo Fraud

(Photos by Tyler Hicks The New York Times)

** Notice that he is even holding his hat next to his body with his arm!
Hat Tip Russ
(Again- Click on each picture to enlarge)

So, dead guy began his day assisting the photographer, then scrambled over debris, then fell dead. Perhaps the caption should have read "don't help - you'll end up dead".
With thanks to Gateway Pundit

"Religion of Peace Rally" Trafalgar Square London , England Summer 2006





The psychology behind suicide bombings.

By - Pierre Rehov, documentary filmmaker

On July 15, MSNBC's "Connected" program discussed the July 7th London attacks.

One of the guests was Pierre Rehov, a French filmmaker who has filmed six documentaries on the intifada by going undercover in the Palestinian areas. Pierre's upcoming film, "Suicide Killers," is based on interviews that he conducted with the families of suicide bombers and would-be bombers in an attempt to find out why they do it. Pierre agreed to a request for a Q&A interview here about his work on the new film.

Q - What inspired you to produce "Suicide Killers," your seventh film?

A - I started working with victims of suicide attacks to make a film on PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) when I became fascinated with the personalities of those who had committed those crimes, as they were described again and again by their victims. Especially the fact that suicide bombers are all smiling one second before they blow themselves up.

Q - Why is this film especially important?

A - People don't understand the devastating culture behind this unbelievable phenomenon. My film is not politically correct because it addresses the real problem, showing the real face of Islam. It points the finger against a culture of hatred in which the uneducated are brainwashed to a level where their only solution in life becomes to kill themselves and kill others in the name of a God whose word, as transmitted by other men, has become their only certitude.

Q - What insights did you gain from making this film? What do you know that other experts do not know?

A - I came to the conclusion that we are facing a neurosis at the level of an entire civilization. Most neuroses have in common a dramatic event, generally linked to an unacceptable sexual behavior. In this case, we are talking of kids living all their lives in pure frustration, with no opportunity to experience sex, love, tenderness or even understanding from the opposite sex. The separation between men and women in Islam is absolute. So is contempt toward women, who are totally dominated by men. This leads to a situation of pure anxiety, in which normal behavior is not possible. It is no coincidence that suicide killers are mostly young men dominated subconsciously by an overwhelming libido that they not only cannot satisfy but are afraid of, as if it is the work of the devil.

Since Islam describes heaven as a place where everything on Earth will finally be allowed, and promises 72 virgins to those frustrated kids, killing others and killing themselves to reach this redemption becomes their only solution.

Q - What was it like to interview would-be suicide bombers, their families and survivors of suicide bombings?

A - It was a fascinating and a terrifying experience. You are dealing with seemingly normal people with very nice manners who have their own logic, which to a certain extent can make sense since they are so convinced that what they say is true. It is like dealing with pure craziness, like interviewing people in an asylum, since what they say, is for them, the absolute truth. I hear a mother saying "Thank God, my son is dead." Her son had became a shaheed, a martyr, which for her was a greater source of pride than if he had became an engineer, a doctor or a winner of the Nobel Prize.

This system of values works completely backwards since their interpretation of Islam worships death much more than life. You are facing people whose only dream, only achievement goal is to fulfill what they believe to be their destiny, namely to be a Shaheed or the family of a shaheed.

They don't see the innocent being killed, they only see the impure that they have to destroy.

Q - You say suicide bombers experience a moment of absolute power, beyond punishment. Is death the ultimate power?

A - Not death as an end, but death as a door opener to the after life. They are seeking the reward that God has promised them. They work for God, the ultimate authority, above all human laws. They therefore experience this single delusional second of absolute power, where nothing bad can ever happen to them, since they become God's sword.

Q - Is there a suicide bomber personality profile? Describe the psychopathology.

A - Generally kids between 15 and 25 bearing a lot of complexes, generally inferiority complexes. They must have been fed with religion. They usually have a lack of developed personality. Usually they are impressionable idealists. In the western world they would easily have become drug addicts, but not criminals. Interestingly, they are not criminals since they don't see good and evil the same way that we do. If they had been raised in an Occidental culture, they would have hated violence. But they constantly battle against their own death anxiety. The only solution to this deep-seated pathology is to be willing to die and be rewarded in the afterlife in Paradise.

Q - Are suicide bombers principally motivated by religious conviction?

A - Yes, it is their only conviction. They don't act to gain a territory or to find freedom or even dignity. They only follow Allah, the supreme judge, and what He tells them to do.

Q - Do all Muslims interpret jihad and martyrdom in the same way?

A - All Muslim believers believe that, ultimately, Islam will prevail on earth. They believe this is the only true religion and there is no room, in their mind, for interpretation. The main difference between moderate Muslims and extremists is that moderate Muslims don't think they will see the absolute victory of Islam during their lifetime, therefore they respect other beliefs. The extremists believe that the fulfillment of the Prophecy of Islam and ruling the entire world as described in the Koran, is for today. Each victory of Bin Laden convinces 20 million moderate Muslims to become extremists.

Q - Describe the culture that manufactures suicide bombers.

A - Oppression, lack of freedom, brain washing, organized poverty, placing God in charge of daily life, total separation between men and women, forbidding sex, giving women no power whatsoever, and placing men in charge of family honor, which is mainly connected to their women's behavior.

Q - What socio-economic forces support the perpetuation of suicide bombings?

A - Muslim charity is usually a cover for supporting terrorist organizations. But one has also to look at countries like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iran, which are also supporting the same organizations through different networks. The ironic thing in the case of Palestinian suicide bombers is that most of the money comes through financial support from the Occidental world, donated to a culture that utterly hates and rejects the West (mainly symbolized by Israel).

Q - Is there a financial support network for the families of the suicide bombers? If so, who is paying them and how does that affect the decision?

A - There used to be a financial incentive in the days of Saddam Hussein
($25,000 per family) and Yasser Arafat (smaller amounts), but these days are gone. It is a mistake to believe that these families would sacrifice their children for money. Although, the children themselves who are very attached to their families, might find in this financial support another reason to become suicide bombers. It is like buying a life insurance policy and then committing suicide.

Q - Why are so many suicide bombers young men?

A - As discussed above, libido is paramount. Also ego, because this is a sure way to become a hero. The shaheed are the cowboys or the firemen of Islam. Shaheed is a positively reinforced value in this culture. And what kid has never dreamed of becoming a cowboy or a fireman?

Q - What role does the U.N. play in the terrorist equation?

A - The U.N. is in the hands of Arab countries and third world or ex-communist countries. Their hands are tied. The U.N. has condemned Israel more than any other country in the world, including the regime of Castro, Idi Amin or Kaddahfi. By behaving this way, the U.N. leaves a door open by not openly condemning terrorist organizations. In addition, through UNRWA, the U.N. is directly tied to terror organizations such as Hamas, representing 65 percent of their apparatus in the so-called Palestinian refugee camps. As a support to Arab countries, the U.N. has maintained Palestinians in camps with the hope to "return" into Israel for more than 50 years, therefore making it impossible to settle those populations, which still live in deplorable conditions. Four hundred million dollars are spent every year, mainly financed by U.S. taxes, to support 23,000 employees of UNRWA, many of whom belong to terrorist organizations (see Congressman Eric Cantor on this subject, and in my film "Hostages of Hatred").

Q - You say that a suicide bomber is a 'stupid bomb and a smart bomb' simultaneously. Explain what you mean.

A - Unlike an electronic device, a suicide killer has until the last second the capacity to change his mind. In reality, he is nothing but a platform representing interests which are not his, but he doesn't know it.

Q - How can we put an end to the madness of suicide bombings and terrorism in general?

A - Stop being politically correct and stop believing that this culture is a victim of ours. Radical Islamism today is nothing but a new form of Nazism. Nobody was trying to justify or excuse Hitler in the 1930s. We had to defeat him in order to make peace one day with the German people.

Q - Are these men traveling outside their native areas in large numbers? Based on your research, would you predict that we are beginning to see a new wave of suicide bombings outside the Middle East?

A - Every successful terror attack is considered a victory by the radical Islamists. Everywhere Islam expands there is regional conflict. Right now, there are thousands of candidates for martyrdom lining up in training camps in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Inside Europe, hundreds of illegal mosques are preparing the next step of brain washing to lost young men who cannot find a satisfying identity in the Occidental world. Israel is much more prepared for this than the rest of the world will ever be. Yes, there will be more suicide killings in Europe and the U.S. Sadly, this is only the beginning.

The current situation in the Middle East is not a conflict between Arabs and Jews.

It is not a conflict between Arabs and the West.

It is not a conflict generated by poor , oppressed people.
Suicide Jehadists are overwhelmingly middle class and upper class.

Instigated by Iran's Ayatollahs, it is an attempt to bring the rest of the world to "submission,"to Islam.

It is a conflict between Radical Islamic Fascism and the rest of the world.

REBOSTON-

Article - Islamic Fascists call for genocide of non-Muslims

Conservative Truth (www.conservativetruth.org) has published pictures from a recent demonstration of Islamic Fascists in London, England:

Religion Of Peace Demonstration
June 5, 2006, London, England

The pictures Above interspersed in the previous article are of Moslems who marched through the streets of London during their recent Religion of Peace Demonstration.

These pictures have never been shown in any of our American newspapers or television news programs because we are so 'politically correct' that we don't want to 'offend' anyone!

The Photos can be found on all of the following links.

http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=385

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/muslimprotest.asp

http://badgerbob.blogspot.com/2006/08/religion-of-peace-demonstration.html

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread216947/pg1

http://www.tribtalk.com/showthread.php?t=4541

REBoston http://hezbollahwar.blogspot.com

Hassan Nassrallah Says He Would Not Do It Again.

Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah said in a TV interview aired Sunday that he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers had he known it would lead to such a response, an admission Israeli officials said shows that despite all his bluster and bravado, Nasrallah realizes he did not win the recent war.

Regarding the killing of three soldiers and the capture of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev on July 12, which sparked the 34-day war, Nasrallah said, "We did not think, even one percent, that the capture would lead to a war at this time and of this magnitude. You ask me, if I had known on July 11... that the operation would lead to such a war, would I do it? I say no, absolutely not."

Nasralla is having a tough time with the Lebanese. He is being accused of sacrificing inocent Lebanese civilians on Iran's alter to Islam. The Lebanese don't support the Hezbollah nearly as much as the press would have us believe. The Shia minority knows that Nasrallah is trouble but since Hezbollah kills all of its rivals and critics (just like Fatah before them.) we probably won't hear many protesting voices from the Shia.

The Sunis now have a really good reason to hate the Shia and Hezbollah. The Christians and the Druze certainly have no love for Nasrallah and his Hezbollah bullies. In short, Arabs need another maniac dictator like a hole in the head. Arabs, like everyone else on the planet, want progress, in material gains, health , education and politics. Hezbollah offers only war , war and more war.

Nasrallah's tone is more and more apologetic , day by day.

War on Haifa
As Documented By
Lenny Mas

Our friend, Professional Photographer, Lenny Mas, has been working on documenting the
War on Haifa. Here is a link to his amazing photos of the damage done by Hezbollah rocket attacks on Haifa, Israel. Please email Lenny and tell him what a great job he has done for Israel Hasbara.
Yisher Koach , Len. Keep up the good work.
To see it all -- click here.

http://www.cjgsu.net/initiatives/Terrorism%20and%20Warfare.htm
The Links below will get you a .pps (MS Power Point ) presentation.
We will convert these ASAP to jpegs and post them on the Blog.

Chronology of Rocket Attacks on the City of Haifa, Israel

WELL ANSWERED---------
Even those who aren't particularly sympathetic to Bibi Netanyahu
could get a good measure of satisfaction from his interview with the British Television this morning.
The interviewer asked him: "How come so many more Lebanese have been killed in this conflict than Israelis?" (A nasty question if there ever was one!)
Netanyahu: "Are you sure that you want to start asking in that direction?"
Interviewer: (Falling into the trap) Why not?
Netanyahu: "Because in World War II more Germans were killed than British and Americans combined, but there is no doubt in anyone's mind that the war was caused by Germany's aggression.
And in response to the German blitz on London, the British wiped out the entire city of Dresden, burning to death more German civilians than the number of people killed in Hiroshima.
Moreover, I could remind you that in 1944, when the R.A.F. tried to bomb the Gestapo Headquarters in Copenhagen, some of the bombs missed their target and fell on a Danish children's hospital, killing 83 little children .
Perhaps you have another question?"

With Thanks to MRWeiner , Massachusetts.
God Bless the R.A.F , Israel , The IDF and the USA.

The Red Cross
Ambulance Incident
How the Media Legitimized an Anti-Israel Hoax and Changed the Course of a War
This is fascinating reading of the Hezbollah propaganda machine at work.
http://www.zombietime.com/fraud/ambulance/

2006 Hezbollah War
A heavy toll: The 159 Israelis killed

A total of 43 Israeli civilians (including four who died of heart attacks during rocket barrages) and 116 IDF soldiers were killed in the Israel-Hizbullah war.

July 12

Sgt.-Maj. Shani Turgeman, 24, of Beit She'an; Sgt.-Maj. Eyal Benin, 22, of Omer; Wasim Nazal, 27, of Yanuh-Jat; St.-Sgt. Alexei Kushnirski, 21, of Ness Ziona; Sgt. Yaniv Bar-On, 19, of Maccabim; Sgt. Nimrod Cohen, 19, of Kibbutz Mitzpe Shalem; Sgt.-Maj. St.-Sgt. Gadi Musiev, 20; St.-Sgt. Shlomi Yirmiyahu, 20.

July 13
Monica Lehrer Zeidman, 40, of Nahariya; Nitzan Rozeban, 33, of Safed.

July 14
St.-Sgt. Tal Amgar, 21, of Ashdod; Cpl. Shai Atias, 19, of Rishon Lezion; Sgt. Yaniv Hershkovitz, 21, of Haifa; and St.-Sgt. Dov Shtierenshos, 37, of Karmiel.
Yehudit Itzkovich, 58, of Meron, and her grandson Omer Pesahov, seven, of Nahariya.

July 16
Eight railway workers in Haifa: Shmuel Ben-Shimon, 41; Asael Damti, 39; Nissim Elharari, 43; David Feldman, 28; Dennis Lapidus, 24; Rafi Hazan, 30; Reuven Levy, 46; and Shlomo Mansura, 35.


July 18
Andrei Zelinsky, 36, of Nahariya.

July 19
St.-Sgt. Yonatan Hadassi, 21, of Kibbutz Merhavia; St.-Sgt. Yotam Gilboa, of Kibbutz Maoz Haim.
Rabiya Abed Taluzi, three, and his brother Mahmoud, 7, of Nazareth.

July 20
Maj. Benjy Hillman, 27; St.-Sgt. Rafenael Muscal, 21, of Mazkeret Batya; St.-Sgt. Nadav Baeloha, 21, of Karmiel; St.-Sgt. Liran Sa'adiya, 21, of Kiryat Shmona; St.-Sgt. Yonatan (Sergei) Vlasyuk, 21, of Kibbutz Lahav; Maj. Ran Kochva, 37, of Beit Hananya.

July 23
Shimon Glickblich, 60, of Haifa; Habib Awad, 48, of Ibellin.

July 24
St.-Sgt. Koby Smileg, 20, of Rehovot; Col. Zvi Luft, 42, of Hogla; Sec.-Lt. Lotan Slavin, 21, of Hatzeva; Lt. Tom Farkash, 23, of Caesarea.

July 25
Doua Abbas, 15, of Mughar; David Mazen, 75, of Haifa.

July 26
Maj. Ro'i Klein, 31, of Eli; Lt. Amihai Merhavia, 24, of Eli; Cpl. Ohad Klausner, 20, of Beit Horon; Lt. Alex Schwarzman, 23, of Acre; St.-Sgt. Shimon Dahan, 20, of Ashdod; Cpl. Asaf Namer, 27, of Kiryat Yam; St.-Sgt. Idan Cohen, 21, of Jaffa; Sgt. Shimon Adega, 20, of Kiryat Gat; Lt. Yiftach Schreier, 21, of Haifa.


August 1
St.-Sgt. Yonatan Einhorn, 22, of Moshav Gimzo; First Sgt. Michael Levin, 21, of Jerusalem; Lieutenant Ilan Gabbai, 22, of Kiryat Tivon.


August 2
Sgt. Adi Cohen, 18, of Hadera
David Martin Lelchook, 52, of Kibbutz Sa'ar.


August 3
Sgt. Itamar Tzur, 19, of Be'er Tuvia; Sgt. Andrei Brudner, 18, of Rishon Lezion; Sgt. Alon Feintuch, 19, of Kiryat Haim; Cpl. Yonatan Sharabi, 19, of Petah Tikva Shimon Zribi, 44, and his daughter Mazal, 15, of Acre; Albert Ben-Abu, 41; Arye Tamam, 51, and his brother, Tiran, 31, all of Acre; Shanati Shanati, 18; Amir Naeem, 18; and Muhammad Fa'ur, 17, all of Tarshiha.

August 4
St.-Sgt. Daniel Shiran, 20, of Haifa; St.-Sgt. Omri Haim Almakayes-Yaakobovitch, 20, of Ramle; Capt. (res.) Igor Rothstein, 34, of Moshav Poriya Manal Azzam, 27, of Mughar; Baha Fayed Karim Mana, 35, and Muhammad Subhi Salim Mana, 23, both of Majd el-Krum.

August 5
St.-Sgt. Or Shahar, 20, of Kibbutz Yad Mordechai; Cpl. (res.) Kiril Kashdan, 26, of Haifa; Frida Kellner, 87, of Kiryat Ata; Fadiya Juma‚a, 58, and her daughters Sultana, 25, and Samira, 30, of Arab al-Aramshe.


August 6
Capt. Eliyahu Elkariaf, 34, of Moshav Granot; CWO Yosef Karkash, 41, of Afula; Warr. Ofc. Shmuel Halfon, 41, of Bat Yam; St.-Sgt.-Maj. Daniel Ben-David, 38, of Moshav Ahituv; St.-Sgt.-Maj. Shlomo Buchris, 36, of Moshav Sde Yitzhak; Sgt. Maj. Ziv Balali, 28, of Kfar Saba; Sgt.-Maj. Marian Berkowitz, 31, of Ashdod; Sgt.-Maj Ro'i Yaish, 27, of Herzliya; St.-Sgt. Yehuda Greenfeld, 27, of Ma'aleh Michmas; St.-Sgt. Shaul Shai Michlowitz, 21, of Netanya; Sgt. Gregory Aharonov, 34, of Or Akiva; Sgt.-Maj. Mordechai Abutbul, 28, of Shlomi

Hana Hamam, 62, and Labiba Mazawi, 67, both of Haifa; Roni Rubinsky, 30, of Kiryat Motzkin. Dr. Tamara Lucca, 84, of Haifa, died of a heart attack.

August 7
St.-Sgt. Moshe (Malko) Ambao, 22, of Lod; Maj. (res.) Yotam Lotan, 32, of Kibbutz Beit Hashita; St.-Sgt. (res.) Noam Meyerson, 23, of Jerusalem;
St.-Sgt. Philip Mosko, 21, of Ma'aleh Adumim.

August 8
Capt. (res.) Gilad Balhasan, 28, of Karmiel; St.-Sgt. (res.) Yesamu Yalau, of Or Yehuda; St.-Sgt. Oren Lifschitz, 21, of Kibbutz Gazit; St.-Sgt. Moran Cohen, 21, of Kibbutz Ashdot Ya'acov.


August 9
Capt. (res.) Gilad Stukelman, 26, of Moshav Tamrat; Capt. (res.) Yoni (Leon) Shmucher, 30, of Beit Nehemia; Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Igor Kovalik, 26, of Upper Nazareth; Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Noam Goldman, 27, of Tel Aviv; Sgt.-Maj. (res.) David Shmidov, 25, of Jerusalem; St.-Sgt. (res.) Nir Cohen, 22, of Maccabim; St.-Sgt. (res.) Ben (Binyamin) Sela, 24, of Koranit; Maj. (res.) Natan Yahav, 36, of Kiryat Ono; Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Asher Reuven Novik, 36, of Kanaf; St.-Sgt. Adi Salim, 22, of Beit Hashmonai; Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Elad Dan, 25, of Kibbutz Eilot; Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Gilad Zusman, 26, of Eli; Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Idan Kobi, 26, of Eilat; Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Naor Kalo, 25, of Kibbutz Ma'agan Michael; Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Nimrod Segev, 28, of Ramat Gan.


August 10
Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Alon Samooha, 35, of Hod Hasharon; Maj. (res.) Nimrod Hillel, 32, of Rosh Ha'ayin. Mariam Assadi, 26, and her son Fathi Ahmed Assadi, five, of the Israeli Arab village of Deir el-Asad.
August 11
Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Aharon Yehezkel, 32, of Kfar Yedidya.

August 12
Capt. Shai Bernstein, 24, of Beersheba; St.-Sgt. Tzahi Krips, 20, of Kibbutz Hama'apil; St.-Sgt. Itai Steinberger, 21, of Karmei Yosef; Sgt. Yosef Abitbol, 19, of Gan Ner; Sgt. Yonatan Ankonina, 21, of Netanya; Sgt. Yaniv Tamerson, 21, of Tzipori; Cpl. Ya'ar Ben-Giat, 19, of Nahsholim; Cpl. Tomer Amar, 19, of Julis; St.-Sgt. Amasa (Ami) Meshulami, 20, of Ofra; Sgt. Yohann Zerbib, 22, of Tel Aviv; Capt. Benaya Rein, 27, of Karnei Shomron; St.-Sgt. Adam Goren, 21, of Kibbutz Ma'abarot; Sgt. Alexander Bonimovitch, 19, of Netanya; St.-Sgt. Oz Zemah, 20, of Maccabim-Reut; Sgt. Haran Lev, 20, of Kibbutz Ma'ayan Baruch; Sgt. Dan Breuer, 19, of Beit Hillel; Cpl. Yigal Nissan, 19, of Ma'aleh Adumim; St.-Sgt. Ido Grabovsky, 20, of Rosh Ha'ayin; St.-Sgt. Uri Grossman, 20, of Mevaseret Zion; Maj. Sami Ben-Naim, 39, of Rehovot; Maj. (res.) Nissan Shalev, 36, of Kibbutz Evron; Capt. Daniel Gomez, 25, of Nehalim; Warr. Ofc. (res.) Ron Mashiah, 33, of Gedera; Sgt.-Maj. Keren Tendler, 26, of Rehovot.

August 13
Lt. (res.) Eliel Ben-Yehuda, 24, of Kfar Tavor; Lt. (res.) Tzur Zarhi, 27, of Moshav Nahalal; Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Guy Hasson, 24, of Moshav Na'ama; St.-Sgt. (res.) Yaniv Shainbrum, 24, of Mei Ami; St.-Sgt. (res.) David Amar, 24, of Kiryat Shmona; St.-Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Amitai Yaron, 44, of Zichron Ya'acov; St.-Sgt. Peter Ochotzky, 23, of Lod; St.-Sgt. (res.) Elad Shlomo Ram, 31, of Haifa; St.-Sgt. Evgeny Timofeev, 20, of Rishon Lezion; Mahadi Hiyat, 83, of Moshav Ya'ara.

Beirut's last Jews

Beirut's last Jews

Beirut Synagougue

Only around forty Jews remain in the Lebanese capital. The once
thriving community had sixteen synagogues; today, there is only one,
with a broken roof
Sefi Hendler

Paris: After speaking for over an hour, Moshe wanted to stop the
conversation. "Let's talk slowly. It hurts me," he sighed. Moshe soon
recovered. "It's okay. You can continue asking, but it brings up
harsh memories. I have to organize my thoughts."

These thoughts have been bouncing around his head for several long
weeks now. Raised in Lebanon, he remembers Beirut from its glory
days. Even during the terrible times, however, Moshe, a Jew,
stubbornly remained in the accursed land.

Fearful for his life, he requested that his real name and several
personal details be changed. Moshe is almost seventy years old, and
three years ago, he finally left Beirut after spending most of his
life as a businessman and well-known figure within the embattled
Jewish community.

Familiar with the Lebanese power struggles, Moshe counted all the
major players among his friends, or at least his acquaintances,
including Jumblatt, the late Hariri, the Shiites, the Christians,
and, of course, the Syrians.

Today, from the safety of his new home away from Lebanon, he
continues to worry about the handful of Jews still residing in the
Lebanese capital. He calls them up to ask about their health and to
check that they have sufficient food.

How many Jews are there in Beirut?

"Some say one hundred, but, in actuality, no more than forty Jews
remain in Beirut," he said. "Their average age is eighty."

Should an attempt be made to evacuate the last Lebanese Jews from Beirut?

"Pay attention well. During my years there, I evacuated one thousand
Jews - minus forty. These are the forty that stayed, and these, no
one will remove."

As a child, Moshe moved from Syria to Beirut. His parents were
concerned about Damascus's political instability and preferred to
settle in the Lebanese city on the coast. Lebanese Jewry was always
one of the smallest Mediterranean communities, but during the 1950's
and '60's, the community, like Beirut itself, experienced a period of
serenity.

"It was a very beautiful city. Jews, Druze, Shiites, Sunnis,
Christians - everyone lived in peace and was neighborly and friendly.
There were very few problems between us. We then had sixteen
synagogues in Beirut; they were all full."

What about the Shiites, who today take the lead when it comes to hating Jews?

"The Shiites? They were the Jews' friends. There were many Jewish
doctors who treated them. I remember Dr. Shames; he was legendary in
Lebanon in those years. He only treated Shiites. Most of them were
poor, and they couldn't pay him with money. They would pay him with
chickens, eggs, oil, figs, and raisins."

But when the civil war broke out, the idyll came to an end. Much of
the Jewish community left the city, and, according to Moshe, no more
than 1,800 Jews remained in Beirut.

"Starting from 1975, the Jews who lived in the Wadi Abu Jamil
neighborhood, the Jewish quarter, were actually protected by Yasser
Arafat's Fatah. Then, they would still differentiate between a Jew
and an Israeli."

From bad to worse

Nonetheless, the community continued to shrink. When Israel invaded
Lebanon in 1982, Moshe naively believed that peace had finally come.

"Sharon had arrived, and a peace agreement was signed between Israel
and Lebanon. I thought that I would live in Nahariya and would work
in Lebanon. One can say that my calculation was rather mistaken."

Instead, matters went from bad to worse for Beiruti Jewry; now they
were forced to deal with Hizbullah and the Shiites. Moshe himself was
the victim of a kidnapping; he estimates that his abductors were
Shiites led by Nabih Beri, head of Amal and today Lebanese Parliament
speaker.

"I was at home in Beirut. It was eight in the evening. The doorbell
rang. I opened the door, already clad in pajamas. They impersonated
Walid Jumblatt's men. They didn't even let me change my clothes, and
they took me to a refugee camp. They held me there for 48 hours, and
I was lucky. Jumblatt personally intervened, and they let me go."

By that point, no more than one thousand Jews remained in Lebanon. In
1985, prior to the IDF withdrawal to the security zone, only around
700 Jews were left. Moshe decided to stay. He himself endured another
three kidnapping attempts; a relative of his was abducted in April
1984, by Hizbullah, and was murdered.

Did the message not get through even then?

"When you live there, you learn how to avoid trouble. There were
areas where we couldn't go, but we managed to stay in places where we
felt more or less secure. I had ties to Christian politicians, and
that protected us."

Yet community life was in shambles, and the Jews lived in Beirut as a
threatened and persecuted minority.

"Since the end of the seventies, the community has not had a rabbi.
In the early eighties, we weren't even able to gather a minyan (a
prayer quorum of ten men) in the synagogue. All our prayer houses
were abandoned. Kurds took control of them and later Shiites. We
couldn't openly conduct Jewish life."

Community members met with Hariri several times, mainly to discuss
Lebanese Jewry's famous Magen Avraham synagogue, built during the
1920's and a communitywide source of pride.

Arabs rioters had vandalized the unique building in 1982, and the
synagogue stood desolate next to the empty Talmud Torah (religious
elementary school). Then, after two decades of war, Hariri, a former
real estate investor, wanted to rehabilitate the Lebanese capital.

"The Talmud Torah was blocking the view of the sea for some of the
structures that Hariri had built," Moshe recalled. "Over the years,
we made every effort to rejuvenate the place, without success."

In 2002, Hariri made a deal with Beirut's last Jews. He would grant
them 1,500 square meters in an alternate location of their choice,
repair the synagogue's roof, and renovate the facade. In exchange,
the Jewish community would agree to destroy the old Talmud Torah
building.

However, the Talmud Torah was never rebuilt; the aging community was
simply unable to fund the project. While bulldozers destroyed the
original structure, which was replaced by a park with a view of the
beach, even the synagogue was never restored.

Throughout the interview, I repeatedly asked Moshe why he had
insisted on staying in Beirut, but he kept changing the subject.
Finally, at the end of our discussion, he deigned to reply.

"Why did I linger? My goal was twofold, or perhaps threefold. I
wanted to locate the Jewish bodies that Hizbullah had kidnapped and
which we weren't able to bring to burial. I wanted to protect the
people in the community until almost everyone left Lebanon. And there
was a personal reason: to prove that I have the right to be in
Lebanon. I attempted to maintain the Jewish presence in Lebanon. To
prove that if there is hatred against the Jews, it was a result of
ignorance."


The Truth for Today

G D Bless America & its people

Our prayers are always with Israel... for they are God's People.

The Bible says those who bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse Israel shall be cursed. We believe this. .......................

Ari Fleischer Rips Ex President Jimmy Carter in Letter
President Bush's former press secretary lambasted Jimmy Carter for saying Israel's military response to Hezbollah attacks had no legal or moral basis.
Ari Fleischer's letter to Carter, dated Monday, rebukes the ex-president for his remarks in an Aug. 15 interview with Der Spiegel.
Carter accused Israel of lacking any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.
Carter equated Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners with the soldiers Hezbollah captured in the July 12 raid that launched the war.

Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and Gaza,Carter said. "I do not think that's justified, no.
Fleischer said, " those words are music to Hezbollah's ears and your message is a blow to long-term peace. Your condemnation of Israel, the victim, only encourages Hezbollah, the attacker, to bide its time and attack again."
Fleischer, who is Jewish, was President George Bush's press secretary from 2001-2003.
A call to the Carter Center on Tuesday was not returned.

With Thanks to www.JTA.Org

Official IDF Web Site
All the IDF video from the
2006 Hezbollah War

THE QUESTION IS , WHY IS THIS NECESSARY?
With all of the real suffering on both sides of this war, why does the
Hezbollah need to invent tradgedy and suffering.
Why does it need to be staged?

Here is another example of Hezbollah Media manipulation.
See the Green Helmet Guy in Action with thanks to, ZAPP, German TV

Letter From the Mother of a Kidnapped Soldier B'H (By The Grace of G-d)

זה הילד שלי.

החיים הראשונים שבראתי, יצר גופי, נשמתי, ואהבתי.

את קולו שמעתי ב20 שנה האחרונות,

מהרגע שבא לאוויר העולם, ועד שיחת הטלפון האחרונה.

"אמא, אני חוזר הביתה , שומעת?" שומעת ילד..בבירור

כמו את הבכי הראשון שלך.

אני עדיין שומעת את הבכי שלך בלילות..כשהיית קטן..לא נתת לי לישון בלילה.

הייתי שוכבת לידך ומרגיעה, כשהיית חולה פעם ראשונה פחדתי כמו ילדה קטנה, ממה?

משפעת פשוטה. לקחתי אותך לכיתה א, וגרמת לי להבטיח שאני אחזור לקחת אותך

.הבטחתי לחזור.ובשנים שבאו מעולם לא שברתי את ההבטחה שלי.

תליתי את הציורים שלך על המקרר, על כל קירות המטבח,

רק כדי שתדע שפה זה הבית שלך. כאן איתי,בין הציורים הישנים.והזיכרונות הישנים עוד יותר.

גדלת מהר מידי, מול עיניי המזדקנות והעייפות.

בבר מצווה שלך ראיתי פתאום איך גדלת מול עיניי במהירות מופרזת

..הייתי האימא הכי גאה בעולם..גדלת להיות מוצלח, מקסים, חכם. "זה הילד שלי"

חשבתי אז, כן, "זה הילד שלי". וכשהתחלת לצאת עם חברים, יצאת גם עם חלק ממני.

הייתי מחבקת אותך ומבקשת שתיזהר. "אל תדאגי אמא, אני ילד גדול" הייתי מתעוררת בלילות.

מסתכלת בשעון.חושבת איפה אתה.מחכה שתחזור. רק שתחזור כבר בריא ושלם אליי.

ורק כששמעתי את הנפילה האופיינית והמרושלת שלך למיטה ידעתי, שאתה פה, בבית, איתי.

ויכולתי להירדם בשלווה. כשעשית רישיון והיית לוקח את האוטו, הייתי מתפללת שלא ייקרה כלום,

לא תסטה לביוב, שלא יתנגשו בך,

שלא תנהג מתי שאתה לא צריך. אבל אתה לא אכזבת.

.וחזרת אליי בריא, שלם, ומאושר. שמחתי לראות את החיוך שלך,

גם אם שילמתי בדאגה ולילות חסרי שינה. ידעתי שלא חסר לך כלום.

ליבי החסיר פעימות רבות מידי כשהלכת לצו ראשון בגיל 17.

חזרת מאושר, עם פרופיל גבוה וגאווה בוהקת בעיניים.

באותו לילה לא נרדמתי. רק ביקשתי שלא תלך לקרבי.

שלא תשרת באזור מסוכן. גם ממך ביקשתי, אבל אתה לא שמעת בקולי.

רצית להגן על המולדת. אבל זו לא המולדת שגידלה אותך.

זו אני שגידלתי.אני. וביום שסגרת את הדלת אחרייך ונסעת לבקו"ם,

כולך נרגש לקראת השירות, התחלתי לספור ימים עד

שתחזור אליי שוב. כל שבת שחזרת הודיתי לאלוהים,

נשבעתי ללכת לבית כנסת , למלא תריג מצוות,

להודות לאלוהים שהחזיר לי את הילד שלי.

אבל זה תמיד הוחלף בלכבס את המדים שלך ולהכין לך אוכל.

ביום שבו נשמעה דפיקה רמה על הדלת.כמעט הרגשתי שמשהו לא בסדר.

פתחתי את הדלת והתפללתי לא למצוא בדיוק את מי שמצאתי.

שני אנשים במדים.וחובש. אחד מהם.המפקד שלך. לחץ את ידי בחזקה.

לא הייתי צריכה לשמוע את דבריו

.האפלה שהתפשטה בעיני חסמה את העורקים והספיקה לי

בשביל להבין שמשהו לא בסדר.משהו לא כשורה.

בחדשות מראים תמונות שלך. ואני יושבת ובוכה.הלכתי לבית כנסת.

התפללתי.אני מתפללת מתוך שינה טרופה שתחזור.

זה הילד שלי.שלי.שנחטף לתוך לבנון. הילד שלי.שאולי לא יחזור.

With thanks to Benny for sending this Hebrew Version . Translation coming soon.

Opinion:
Iran Should Learn from Wiley Coyote

A friend and I once laughed about how Wiley Coyote spent thousands upon thousands of dollars buying useless crap from the acme corporation to kill the Roadrunner, and all he ever did was fall off the cliff. If he just bought himself dinner there would be no show, and he'd be the richest coyote in the world.

That's what I imagine this war is all about. The Shiah that make up Hezbollah and their Iranian backers have this crazed Wiley Coyote ideology.
Iran has a seemingly endless oil supply. The oil is worth more money than God, and they don't even need to do anything. They just LET the West pump it out and they get paid! But instead of 'buying dinner' and building their nation, they spend most of their money on their nuclear ambitions and supporting rebel groups that want to kill a country 1/1000 the size of Iran, that's allied closely with the most powerful nation in history, and all they ever do is 'fall off the cliff'!

What is with these people? ? They spend more money on Hezbollah than they do getting their people out of mud-huts. Many of the cities of Iran are still made of mud. Just remember back to the last earthquake that killed so many tens of thousands of Iranians in 2005. Mud homes, a nuclear weapons project and support for Hezbollah: makes about as much sense as the Palestinians spending all of their time, money and efforts on kassam Rockets and suicide belts.

--Ronn
And This Just In.......
Speaking of Cartoons!
The video below is of a lecture by an Iranian college professor speaking about how
the cartoons of Tom and Jerry are actually a Jewish plot.

If this sort of Muslim "education" wasn't really happening, it would be laughable....
Notice the students taking notes!
Iranian University professor Hasan Bolkhari on Iranian TV...
Click Here
http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=1049wmv&ak=null%20

Israelis Return Home to Find Massive Hezbollah Rocket Damage

What my Lebanese friend says about the War:

I find great perspective on the matter from people I associate with daily. Before leaving the States for Israel I spoke with a Sunni Lebanese friend that I had worked with for years. Despite having an very friendly and amicable relationship, I'm quite sure that my friend is no great lover of Israel, I've never pressed him on the matter, but certainly two wars on Lebanese turf can make one bitter on the subject.

He told me that what Nasrallah claimed a victory in Lebanon, was actually the most destructive thing that ever happened to his country and he feared another civil war was on the rise. I was shocked - the media outlets make it seem like everyone and their grandfather are cheering on Nasrallah, but if my well connected Lebanese friend with plenty of family back home thinks this, I'm sure there is at least a degree of agreement among his friends and family. What is at stake today is the difference between my friend's beliefs - respect for life, the persuit of growing society and civilization - and Iran's beliefs of intollerance, destruction and 'victory' over reason.

Why The Arab Nations Should Stop the Wars and Live in Peace with Israel
as seen on AL Jazeera TV

There are some points of view that are so well spoken that
they deserve a special place in the collective knowledge of
Mankind. Click here to watch


Wafa Sultan, a well known psychologist , took on
the mullahs and muftis in a debate broadcast on AL JAZEERA TV.

Click here to watch

AP Reports on ISRAEL War Damage Figures

• Deaths: 157 total — 118 soldiers and 39 civilians.

• Wounded: 860.

• Number of buildings destroyed: no official figures, but tax authorities report more than 6,000 claims for damaged buildings and more are expected as displaced people return home.

• Number of strikes: 3970 Hezbollah rockets, 901 of them inside cities.

• Number of displaced people: 300,000.

• There were no school days lost because they were not in session.

• Many businesses in the north of the country were closed throughout the war. No specific figures were available.

• Tourism: $80 million of lost revenue during the war, many hundreds of millions in projected losses in the future months because of the war.

• Damage to transportation system: Not immediately available.

• Overall damage: Media reports say about $3 billion in damages and lost revenue, but do not give a source for that estimate. Israeli Finance Minister Avraham Hirschon could give no precise figure but said it would be "many billions."

• Access to water and electricity: Isolated water and electricity lines hit; repairs made within 48 hours.

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And Then Again, I often wonder what the news would have looked like during World War II if today's Liberal Press were allowed the anarchist roll that they enjoy in the modern world.

For some reason, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has been portrayed as some sort of statesman by several Internet and even mass media sources, particularly with the unusally soft tone he took during the latest battle.

Nasrallah was very vocal about his destructive policies leading up to the current conflict. His intollerant world view is broadcast all over Lebanon with his repeated calls for the death and destruction of of Israel and America. Unfortunately, these tirades and rants are ignored by Western media.

In this clip broadcast on Al-Manar TV on 2/23/2006 only a few months before the current conflict and viewed all over Lebanon - Nasrallah laid out this histrionic, inciting tens-of-thousands of Lebanese.






"AMERICA AMERICA YOU ARE THE GREAT SATAN!" Calls out Nasrallah. These ralies aren't an abberation caused by some event. They are systematic, organized, and are funded by the Iranian regime, the rhetoric of which, is no better, if not worse than Nasralla's.

Click to View Video Clip

MORE ON HEZBOLLAH WAR CRIMES 4 Aug 2006 @ 16:08, by Bruce KodishAs policy, Hezbolla deliberately targets civilian's and furthermore hides among the civilian population of Lebanon and uses Lebanese civilians as human shields. This directly contravenes the laws of war as spelled out in the Geneva Conventions. Here are some excerpts to keep in mind when there is loose talk of war crimes: Both Protocol I and Article 28 of the Geneva Convention (IV) make clear that "the deliberate intermingling of civilians and combatants, designed to create a situation in which any attack against combatants would necessarily entail an excessive number of casualties is a flagrant breach of the Law of International Armed Conflict," according to international law scholar Yoram Dinstein (see his The Conduct of Hostilities under the Law of International Armed Conflict, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 129 - 130). In short, Hezbollah is in violation of the laws of war when it places missiles and rockets in villages and homes in order to shield them from Israeli attack. Article 51(7) of Protocol I states: "The presence or movements of the civilian population or individual civilians shall not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations, in particular attempts to shield military objectives from attacks or to shield, favour or impede military operations." And the Geneva Convention (IV) holds that "The presence of a protected person may not be used to render certain points of areas immune from military operations." (Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, 1949, Laws of Armed Conflicts, 495, 511.) Moreover, the Rome Statute is clear that "utilizing the presence of civilians or other protected persons to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations is recognized as a war crime by Article 8 (2) (b) (xxiii)". (Dinstein, p. 130)

With thanks to Dare to Inquire Blog

Here is another example of Hezbollah Media manipulation.

See the Green Helmet Guy in Action with thanks to German TV

AL Manar TV
The Voice of Hezbollah





Hezbollah's TV station , funded by Iran requires all women reporters to wear traditional modest Muslim dress. As spokespersons for the export of Iran's Islamic fundamentalist revolution, it is important that the requirements of Islamic law be followed by all
Islam means submission. Islam means surrender. It means you surrender and accept Islamic hegemony over yourselves..."

Programing includes regular anti semetic propaganda such as this drama where the actor playing a Jew says " We need the blood of a Christian Child."

Iran and Hezbollah pound this vitriolic invective home to the Shia Mulims who tune in daily.
"There's not a single verse in the Koran talking about peace with a non-Muslim, with the Jews and the Christians.

Shia Muslims celebrate Ashoura in Lebanon. This is a ritual of blood letting in rememberance of events in Islam in the year 680 AD.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/08/the_convert.html

Hezbollah Stance on the Use of Terrorist Tactics

Hezbollah is believed to be responsible for multiple kidnappings^{[78][79][80][81]}, murders^[78][80][67], hijackings^[67], and bombings^{[67][70][82][83]}, and is widely credited with pioneering the use of suicide bombing. Nevertheless, writers have quoted Hezbollah clerics discomfort and "squeamishness" with the tactic,“But all these theological somersaults suggest that religion may be as much a hurdle, which the perpetrators of ‘martyrdom operations’ need to overcome, as a motive for their violence" ^[84].

Hezbollah has not been directly involved in a suicide bombing since 1999 and has publically denounced some of these attacks. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Hezbollah condemned Al Qaeda for targeting the civilian World Trade Center, but remained silent on the attack on the Pentagon, neither favoring nor opposing the act.^[85][86] Hezbollah also denounced the Armed Islamic Group massacres in Algeria, Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya attacks on tourists in Egypt,^[87] and the murder of Nick Berg.^[88] Nasrallah, in a 2006 interview with the Washington Post, condemned violence against American civilians: “[I]f there are American tourists, or intellectuals, doctors, or professors who have nothing to do with this war, they are innocent, even though they are Americans, and it is forbidden. It is not acceptable to harm them.”^[85]

Although Hezbollah has denounced attacks on Western civilians, it makes an exception in the case of Israel. In June 2002, shortly after the Israeli government launched Operation Defensive Shield, which culminated in the Battle of Jenin, Nasrallah gave a speech in which he defended and praised suicide bombings of Israeli civilians; including women and children; by members of Palestinian groups for "creating a deterrence and equalizing fear." Nasrallah stated that "in occupied Palestine there is no difference between a soldier and a civilian, for they are all invaders, occupiers and usurpers of the land;"^[89] making no distinction between killing soldiers or murdering women and children.

In addition, the organization's television station Al-Manar airs programming designed to inspire suicide attacks in Gaza, the West Bank and Iraq^[90][91]. ^[92]

Saturday August 19,2006
Hezbollah, Syria, Continue to Smuggle Arms Through BaalBeq,Lebannon

Isreali commandos attacked a Hezbollah - Syrian arms smuggling operation early Saturday morning. An Israeli officer was killed and two soldiers were wounded. The operation killed three Hezbollah gunmen who were working on the smuggling of re-supplies to Hezbollah units in Southern Lebanon. Israel's spokesman, Mark Regev said that the operation was carried out
based on real intelligence that there was a direct violation of the cease fire by Hezbollah. Under the terms of the cease fire , Hezbollah must disarm and not be re-supplied.
IDF sources reported that the operation was carried out successfully.










Hezbollah Searches near cornfield
where IDF troops were extracted early Saturday.

The Israeli army said the commandos blew up a bridge used to smuggle weapons from Syria and Iran to Hezbollah. There's speculation that Israel hoped to kidnap a senior Hezbollah official to use as a bargaining chip to win the release of two captured Israeli soldiers.












IDF troops return to Israel and unload weapons, Saturday 8/19/06

DEBKA file's militry sources add: Iran and Syria have used the halt in Israeli attacks since last Monday, Aug. 14, to send over Hizballah fresh weapons supplies including rockets in direct violation of the UN ceasefire and 1701 resolution imposing an arms embargo. No monitoring system is in place on the Lebanese-Syrian border.
Also since the truce, a group of Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers, including generals, has arrived to set up a forward command on the Syrian side of the Lebanese border. They have told Hizballah to start reconstituting its southern Nasser Brigade which was damaged by Israeli forces and also serves the group as its short-range rocket unit. more- www.debka.com

Running From ResponsibilityAugust 20, 2006: The ceasefire deal is coming apart more quickly than originally expected. The European nations, which had originally promised combat troops, and a willingness to enforce the ceasefire in southern Lebanon (that is, disarm Hizbollah) are rapidly backpedaling. France, which had talked about leading the peacekeepers, and providing thousands of troops, when the ceasefire was being pushed through the UN, now offers 200 troops, and wants no part of leading the operation. This is angering the UN, because everyone admits that only the well trained, and fairly incorruptible, European soldiers stand a chance of being able to disarm Hizbollah and assure peace in Lebanon. At the moment, most of the nations offering troops are Moslem. These soldiers would not crack down on Hizbollah, and would assure another round of fighting between Israel and the terrorists. The UN wants 3,500 peacekeepers in place by August 28th, and all 15,000 by late November. So far, it appears that this will not happen. The UN continues to appeal for troops, and condemn Israeli efforts to enforce the ceasefire conditions (that Hizbollah not rearm and reoccupy bases in southern Lebanon.) As in the past, the UN will pass resolutions demanding action, but will do nothing, except criticize Israel for defending itself. http://www.strategypage.com

Lebanese Army Rolls Southward to Take Up Positions
August 16,2006 10:30 PM EST

Israel Radio News anounced this evening that 15,000 Lebanese Army Troops
are moving south to cross the Litani River and take up positions to enforce the
UN imposed cease fire.

Israeli troops have begun to withdraw.

Magician David Blaine Arrives in Israel

Entertains Israelis Wounded in 2006 Hezbollah War .

NICOLE Kidman has made a public stand against terrorism.
The actress, joined by 84 other high-profile Hollywood stars, directors, studio bosses and media moguls, has taken out a powerfully-worded full page advertisement in today's Los Angeles Times newspaper.
It specifically targets "terrorist organisations" such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine.
"We the undersigned are pained and devastated by the civilian casualties in Israel and Lebanon caused by terrorist actions initiated by terrorist organisations such as Hezbollah and Hamas," the ad reads.
"If we do not succeed in stopping terrorism around the world, chaos will rule and innocent people will continue to die.
"We need to support democratic societies and stop terrorism at all costs."
A who's who of Hollywood heavyweights joined Kidman on the ad.
The actors listed included: Michael Douglas, Dennis Hopper, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Danny De Vito, Don Johnson, James Woods, Kelly Preston, Patricia Heaton and William Hurt.
Directors Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Michael Mann, Dick Donner and Sam Raimi also signed their names.
Other Hollywood powerplayers supporting the ad included Sumner Redstone, the chairman and majority owner of Paramount Pictures, and billionaire mogul, Haim Saban.

Adam Sandler buys hundreds of XBOX computer games for Israelis in Northern Galilee to help them overcome some of the trauma of a month in bomb shelters and constant Hezbollah barrages.

As Sharon's Condition deteriorates and Olmert's Government Flounders
Will Israelis Opt for the Bibi Natanyahu Option?

IDF Cheif of Staff's Stock Trading Scandal and Olmert's handling of the war could sink his fragile coalition government.

Benjamin Natanyahu: Waiting in the Wings?

Israelis in battered town start to pick up the pieces

Matthew Kalman, Chronicle Foreign Service

Friday, August 18, 2006

(08-18) 04:00 PDT Nahariya, Israel -- Lydisia Kadosh was watching the TV news two weeks ago when she realized that the house blazing away on the screen was hers.

The burning three-story duplex in this northern Israeli town had just been hit by a Katyusha rocket, fired across the border by Hezbollah guerrillas during the 34-day war, which entered a tense cease-fire Monday.

"I saw my house exploding and going up in flames," said Kadosh, inspecting the damage Thursday. "My daughter burst into tears when she saw the pictures."

Kadosh, her husband and their four children had left Nahariya in the first week of the fighting to stay with friends and relatives. They returned home this week to find their house uninhabitable, with a huge hole in the roof and broken glass and furniture scattered everywhere.

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Naharia, Israel, Hezbollah Rocket Damage

Cease Fire - Day Two

August 15,2006
Israeli Soldiers report in telephone interviews;

Hezbollah fighters are returning to the villages of Southern
Lebanon with all their own weapons. Many of their fortifications
are still intact and they are reclaiming their bunkers.

Elite Israeli Recon units that captured Hezbollah command bunkers
report that their equipment rivals anything that they have seen in the IDF.
Hezbolla has the latest GPS and Satelite technology and very expensive optics for
both day and night fighting in addition to the latest anti tank and anti personel
missles.

Hezbollah -Returning to Southern Lebanon

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Hezbollah Launches from Civilian Homes

Katyusha Rockets at Launch ( Archive )

Each Katyusha rocket is packed with tens of thousands of ball bearings which perforate everthing in their path.

Photo Len Mas

Hezbollah Rockets fired from Lebanon damage on Israeli homes in Northern Israel.
July - August 2006

Civilians Killed By Hezbollah Rocket Attacks on Northern Israel Map
July - August 2006

The Time Is Now. Israel And The West On The Brink

The Time Is Now. Israel And The West On The Brink
Filed under: Front Page
by Phyllis Chesler,PhD The Jewish Press,

Our beloved Israel is engaged in an existential fight for survival.
From the moment of its birth in 1948, Israel has been under constant
siege. This latest war, however, feels different. It comes upon
Israel after decades of non-stop terrorist attacks, large-scale
military battles, and endless international boycotts and condemnation.

Israel has been relentlessly demonized and successfully isolated by
lethal propaganda. World-class illiterates and leading academics have
loudly agreed that Israel is a "Nazi, apartheid" state that deserves
disdain and death or have shamefully looked the other way as Jewish
blood flowed and the noose tightened, perhaps secretly hoping that a
second Holocaust – this one for the Jews of Israel – might somehow
spare the West from experiencing its own much larger Holocaust at
Islamist hands.

I first wrote in these pages in 2004 and again in 2006 that the
beginnings of a second Holocaust were already discernable. A handful
of others also envisioned this. Only recently have some Jewish-
American leaders begun to entertain this idea and to repeat our lines
but without acknowledging their source. Until now I was mocked as
a "Jewish Cassandra" by certain Jewish leaders and slandered,
banished, or simply ignored by the mainstream (liberal, left, and
feminist) media.

Tragically, many of our leading Jewish intellectuals and our mainly
liberal Jewish masses shared the view that whatever was happening was
not really happening – and if it was, that Israel either had only
itself to blame or actually had the power to reverse the course of
events. Even today, many Israeli leftists and feminists actually
believe that Israel can find peace by negotiating with Hamas and
Hizbullah. They send me their ideas. They boggle the mind.

Over the years, Israelis have learned to live large and tough and
sweet despite the unending attacks against them. Now, for the first
time, Israelis, Jews, and their many supporters are beginning to
contemplate the unbearable – namely, that the siege against Israel
might never end, that our Islamist enemies (and their supporters in
the Western media and academy) will never stop until they wear us
down completely, drive us into the sea, or annihilate us with nuclear
weaponry.

Of course, Israelis are not leaving (though many of Israel's
wealthiest and most well connected citizens have second and third
homes on other continents and work and travel outside of Israel a
great deal). True, thousands of Jews have made aliyah in the past few
years, despite the ongoing violence, and world Jewry, our Christian
Zionist supporters, and the American government have continued to
visit, fund, and arm Israel.

Still, there is a somber and infinitely sad quality to the
conversations I've had with many Israelis. Those who have lived long
enough are exhausted and afraid. The never-ending battle for the land
is consuming their young. They and their children after them have all
fought and been wounded in Israel's unending wars; now they are
sending their grandchildren to the front. Worse: the entire country
has become the front.

In the space of five weeks, trees that took one hundred years to grow
were burned to the ground by Hizbullah rockets. The Israeli north
became one vast ghost town, Kiryat Shmonah was devastated, more than
a million Israeli refugees were forced to flee – though they have
been welcomed by other Israelis who live in temporarily safer,
southern communities. (May this hospitality begin to unite our
people.) But little of this has been shown by the world media, which
has focused obsessively on the Lebanese civilian dead.

How ironic. Israeli civilians are essentially soldiers while Iranian
terrorist army members who dress in street clothes are counted by the
media as "civilian" dead. Despite being stopped in some instances by
vigilant bloggers, the world media continue to run Hizbullah's
doctored footage and craftily arranged photo opportunities.

Israelis are asking some hard but necessary questions. A Haifa
resident admitted that "finally, for the first time in 40 years," she
is "depressed" and wondering "whether Israel has a future." Israel's
enemies, she said, "live only to fight, kill, and die. They `win' if
they can reduce our way of life to one of brute existence."

A resident of Jerusalem tells me "the loss is great, the fear is
deep, confidence is low, support for the soldiers is high, but we
feel isolated and misrepresented, misunderstood. Where will this end?"

Another Jerusalem resident says, "The war in the field is barely
connected to the war being constructed by the media who mold the
broadcasts to fit their ideologies. The ironies are too much to bear."

A refugee from Nahariya: "The Israeli government is not showing us
the pictures of the northern towns. But are they getting out to the
world? Do you see the Israeli wounded, are you getting the picture of
what it's like to live in a bomb shelter actually or in your head for
five or six weeks? How long are we supposed to do this?"

The director of a northern kibbutz for handicapped and special-needs
children writes that his vulnerable charges are "terrified by all the
rocket-dodging" and by life in "small, crowded, underground spaces."

Even some proverbially nonchalant Tel Avivians have confirmed that
they have been staying home "every single night" to be close to their
young children and aging parents "in case they are bombed."

Today, for the first time, Israelis and Jews are beginning to think
the unthinkable. How long must Israel continue to do the heavy
lifting in America's civilizational war against Iran and Syria and
indeed against Islamist jihad? At what point will Israel need to
consider exercising its nuclear option against Iran?

Can Israel, or Israel and America, succeed militarily? Even if they
can, will the fallout for Israel be greater politically – or
radioactively? Must the Jews once again enact another Masada-like
scenario? Or is Israel, unrestrained, still capable of an Entebbe-
like commando action that will stop Ahmadinejad/Armageddon?

Conversely, will the Jews have to consider leaving Israel again, at
least temporarily? If they do, where will they go? To the moon? Under
the sea? Perchance to Arizona or New Mexico for a century until
things quiet down in the Middle East? But will Jews ever be safe in a
Jew-hating world without a strong Israel?

Just this month a London hairdresser refused to cut "the hair of a
Jew" (a woman who had frequented the salon for a decade) and 20
Jewish shops were vandalized in Rome. Anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist, and
anti-American marches (not to mention terrorist attacks against
trains and buses and plots against airlines) continue unabated in
every major European capital. Placards read: "Europe is the Cancer.
Islam is the Answer"; "Europe You Will Pay, Your 9/11 Is on Its Way";
and "Be Prepared for the Real Holocaust."

And it's not just Europe: Dislike, if not open hatred, for Israel,
coupled with the belief in an evil Zionist lobby, is rampant on
American campuses, within certain quarters of the American State
Department, and among the progressive and mainstream media. This
month in Washington, D.C., ten-year-old Arab-American girls chanted
pro-Hizbullah slogans.

Religious Zionists will never give up on Israel; I doubt secular
Israelis will either. I certainly won't. And Israeli soldiers are
absolutely willing and able to fight. But the exhaustion and the
danger are real and must be factored in. We must weigh every option,
make all kinds of contingency plans, be prepared to act on all
fronts – simultaneously, if need be.

There are at least a million totalitarian Islamists willing to die in
order to kill Jews and other infidels; more than a billion of their
fellow Muslims have, thus far, refused to challenge and subdue them.
These civilian-terrorists, who hide in rat-holes and caves, rooming
houses and dormitories, are adept at using our technology and our
legal system against us. Israel was in the forefront of fighting
Arafat's kind of terrorism but we are now in the al Qaeda/Hizbullah
era. New military, undercover, and propaganda strategies must be
adopted.

Many people, including some Jews, accuse Jews of elevating our
suffering above that of other groups. They see this as selfish, even
racist. In my view, what happens to Israel is a prophecy and a
warning to the world about what will happen to all humanity. Perhaps
this is one way the Jews are special or "chosen." We constitute God's
holy classroom.

If the world does not stop the jihadists in Israel, if it chooses to
sacrifice the Jews once again, it will, soon enough, find itself
bombed back to the seventh century and living under Islamic religious
law. Several Iranian dissident friends have begged me to explain to
them why America has not already stopped Iran. As one distraught
dissident put it, the mullahs have already murdered vast numbers of
their own countrymen and will stop at nothing to return to a
Caliphate. "And the Jews?" he asks. "How can they, of all people,
hesitate?"

If not now, when? If not us, who? The time is now.

Christian Zionists, Hezbollah, Israel, Jihad, Lebanon, Opinion, war

July August 2006 Hezbollah War Against Israel.

Two Arab -Israeli Brothers Killed by Hezbollah Rocket Fire on Nazareth



Al Jazeera Broascasting from Afula, Israel
Two Israeli Arabs, Mother and 5 Year Old Son, Killed By Hezbollah Rockets in Northern Israel.

Khamenei: Hizbullah resistance to Israel a victory for IslamBy ASSOCIATED PRESS

"You have ridiculed the myth that the Zionist army is invincible

Posters of Ayatollas Khomeni and Khameni

August 14,2006 8AM

Cease Fire in Hezbollah Israel
War in Lebanon.

August 14,2006 8AM

Cease Fire in Hezbollah Israel
War in Lebanon.


Natanyahu to Israeli Knesset:
"If the Arabs lay down their arms
there will be no more war.
If Israel lays down its arms
there will be no more Israel."
War Summary: 52 Civilians Deaths in 3,970 Rocket Attacks on Israel
18:12 Aug 14, '06 / 20 Av 5766

(IsraelNN.com) Hizbullah terrorists attacked Israel with 3,970 rockets since they began their attack on the north on July 12, killing 52 civilians. Forty people are still being treated for very serious wounds, 50 suffered moderate injuries, 546 were lightly injured and 1,318 were treated for shock.

A summary of the attacks shows that the Upper Galilee region of Kiryat Shmona suffered the brunt of the attacks with more than 1,000 rockets, and 808 fell on the coastal area of Nahariya.

Tzfat was attacked with 471 Katyushas, and 176 exploded in or near Carmiel, 93 in the Haifa area and 181 in or near Tiberias, on the shores of the Kinneret Lake (Sea of Galilee).- Arutz 7

And now .... Hamas rockets southern Israel
town of Ashkelon As Hezbollah and Israel
begin cease fire.

What was it like to be under Hezbollah
Rocket Attacks for the past month?
When a Lebanese civilian is killed, Israel mourns; when an Israeli civilian is killed, Hezbollah celebrates.

Palestinian Press Covers Hezbollah War 2006

http://www.pmw.org.il/bulletins_Aug2006.htm

Smoke from nearby
forest fires over Kiryat Shemone, Israel .
Hezbollah Rockets set most of the forests in the
Northern Galilee on fire. Environmentalists say
that it will take 50 years for the Galilee forests
to recover from Hezbolla's attacks.

Hezbollah , means ,'Party of God'

Hezbollah is a Shiite Military Force

Tough , Disciplined , Well Trained and supplied by Iran and Syria Deeply Religious the Shia Muslims Celebrate the Feast of Ashura in bloody ritual.

Here are images of Hezbollah rockets being prepared and fired at Israel during the Hezbollah War of July and August 2006.
Hezbollah terror squads , supplied by Iran and Syria ,
use Southern Lebanon as a launching pad for deadly rocket attacks against Israeli towns and villages. Dozens of Israeli civilians, both Jews and Arabs, have been killed in recent Hezbollah terror attacks.

Unifil Map of
Southern Lebanon
Hezbollah terror
units use this area to
launch rockets on Israel.










Hezbolla manipulation of Western Media
http://www.aish.com/movies/

August 2006
Hezbolla rocket kills Israeli
mother and child in this building.






July 2006
Shemuel Cohen lies
wounded in Israeli
hospital.











August 2006

Funeral of
Yiftah Shreyer

August 2006







The USA and Israel and the EU
contribute money for the welfare of the people in Gaza.
Hamas led burning flags and demonstrations is common.
This demonstation is in support of Hezbollah rocket attacks
on Israeli towns and villages from Southern Lebanon.

August 2006

Nahariya , Israel.

Apartment building hit by Hezbollah rockets
fired from Southern Lebanon.

Armed by Syria and Iran, and trained in Lebanon,
Hezbollah's Shia recruits are disciplined and ready to die
for their leader , Hassan Nasrallah, in a war against Israel
and the West.












The Shia are taught from an early age to publicly withstand self- inflicted pain and bloodshed, the Shia believe that the ultimate joy is to die a martyr's death
in the name of Islam.

July - August 2006


Leadership of Ruin and Rubble








Top: PA Prime Minister Hanieh, Hamas, West Bank, Israel
Bottom Left: Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah of Lebanon
Bottom Right: Sheik Yassin, (deceased) Hamas, Gaza
Recruiting young people to their ranks,
using religious commitment, and a promise of
paradise, they vow to fight to the last drop of martyrs' blood.
All recruits are required to train for suicide missions

August 2006











As sirens wail and Hezbolla Rockets fall,
Israeli Jews help each other to find
shelter in Kiryat Shemona.
(The town of Kiryat Shemona hit by
over one thousand Hezbolla rockets in July and August 2006)

July 2006

Hezbollah in Lebanon










Hezbollah man in civilian clothes poses for
photographer in Lebanon with a chrome-plated
AK 47 . Background: junk yard tires burn, hit by
artillery round in recent Israel-Hezbollah fighting.

How big is Hezbollah?
Its core consists of several thousand militants and activists, the U.S. government estimates.
What major attacks is Hezbollah responsible for?
Hezbollah and its affiliates have planned or been linked to a lengthy series of terrorist attacks against the United States, Israel, and other Western targets. These attacks include:
a series of kidnappings of Westerners in Lebanon, including several Americans, in the 1980s;
the suicide truck bombings that killed more than 200 U.S. Marines at their barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983;
the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847, which featured the famous footage of the plane’s pilot leaning out of the cockpit with a gun to his head;
two major 1990s attacks on Jewish targets in Argentina—the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy (killing twenty-nine) and the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center (killing ninety-five).
a July 2006 raid on a border post in northern Israel in which two Israeli soldiers were taken captive. The abductions sparked an Israeli military campaign against Lebanon to which Hezbollah responded by firing rockets across the Lebanese border into Israel.

Does Hezbollah play an active role in the Lebanese politics?
Yes. After the 2005 elections, Hezbollah won fourteen seats in the 128-member Lebanese Parliament. In addition, Hezbollah has two ministers in the government, and a third is endorsed by the group.
Hezbollah did not disarm when it entered Lebanese politics, and experts say the group's new political involvement is not an indication that the group is becoming more moderate.

Hezbollah Position on Jews and Judiasm

Hassan Nasrallah has a history of making anti-Semitic statements (e.g. “if they [Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide”^[55]). Despite Nasrallah's remarks, Hezbollah's official Web site marks a distinction between "Zionist ideology" and Judaism. It sees the rejection of Zionism as an attitude hold across "races, religions, and nationalities". It likens Zionism to "the concept of creating 'Israel' by the use of force and violence, by stealing the Arabs’ lands and killing Palestinians". "[O]pposing the Zionists ideology is not opposing setting a home for Jews".^[56] Amal Saad-Ghorayeb a Shiite scholar and Assistant Professor at the Lebanese American University, however, argues that Hezbollah is not anti-Zionist, but actually anti-Jewish. She quotes Hassan Nasrallah as saying, "If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli." Regarding the official public stance of the organization as a whole, she argues that while Hezbollah, "tries to mask its antiJudaism for public-relations reasons..a study of its language, spoken and written, reveals an underlying truth." In her book, "Hezbollah: Politics & Religion," she examines the, anti-Jewish roots of Hezbollah ideology, arguing that, "Hezbollah believes that Jews, by the nature of Judaism, possess fatal character flaws, and that their", "Koranic reading of Jewish history has led its leaders to believe that Jewish theology is evil.^[57] "

In 2004 the Hezbollah-owned television station Al-Manar was banned in France on the grounds that it was inciting racial hatred. The court cited a 23 November broadcast in which a speaker accused Israel of deliberately disseminating AIDS in Arab nations.^[58]

source Wikipedia

2006
Hamas displays
home made Kassam rockets.

Terror cells of Hamas in the Gaza strip take over
auto body shops in civilian neighborhoods and then
they make these rockets in "the back room".

The cells then go out in the field and fire them at Israel, mostly at the towns of Sederot and Ashkelon.

August 2006

Israelis wait out a rocket attack in a shelter in Northern Israel.









Three Arab Israelis Killed by Hezbollah Rockets.
60 year old Mother and two daughters killed by
Hezbollah rocket attack on Norther Israel town.

August 2006
Israelis bury their dead











Hezbollah's war against Israel has killed hundreds of
soldiers and civilians with rocket attacks from Southern Lebanon
and by using Lebanese civilians as human sheilds

Woman, grandson killed in Meron rocket attack on 4rth day of Hezbollah Rocket attacks
Woman, four-year-old grandson killed by Katyusha that hit house in Meron; child's parents, six others, including 10-year-old girl, also hurt; earlier, Katyusha rocket hits house in Safed, wounding 12 people. One person in serious condition after sustaining head injuries; some 14 rockets hit town Friday afternoon. Simultaneously rockets fired at Nahariya, land in heart of town; two lightly injured in strike
Hagai Einav

This is a photo-montage of
Hezbollah parades and ceremonies.
"We Shall Die As Martyrs"
"Death to the USA"
"Death to Israel"
"Death to Infidels"









Hezbollah's fundamentalist ideology in Lebanon,
teaches hatred of Jews, Christians, The West, Israel,
and prescribes severe punishment for all who
do not obey their Iranian / Taliban style of Muslim
religious interpretation. Hezbollah preaches 'liberation'
in order to bring Muslims a fascist ideology and
a culture of death.

August 2006

Israeli Army displays Hezbollah Arms
captured in Lebanon.

Hassan Nasrallah in his own words

"If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide." (Daily Star, Oct. 23, 2002)

"If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli." (New Yorker, Oct. 14, 2002)

Reasons to Worry Please click the link below and watch this shocking video. Read the words, and listen to the tone of the speaker. This is notan isolated case; it is routinely being taught in mosques. Being a Jew today means being concerned, informed, and never gettingcomplacent. This attachment will play on its own; you don't need to download any software. It is very important for us to understand thehateful fanatics who want to destroy Jews and Western Civilization. http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ClipMediaID=60227&ak=null

Within a month of Nasrallah’s taking over as leader, Hezbollah (with the help of Iranian intelligence) bombed the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29 and injuring over 200. The next attack perpetrated by Hezbollah—again with Iranian help—was the bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, killing 86 and injuring over 200.

Nasrallah also incoroporates lots of anti-Semitic rhetoric in speeches. For example, he has characterized Jews as the "grandsons of apes and pigs" and "Allah’s most cowardly and greedy creatures." (MEMRI: Al- Manar, Feb. 3, 2006)

Hezbolla Weapons captured by IDF in Lebanon

July 2006

Israel's northern city of Naharia under daily Hezbollah Rocket attack.

On average , Hezbolla fires 100 rockets a day at Israel.

August 2006
Hezbolla command bunker in Bint Jbeil , Lebanon. Israelis came across these US made TOW anti tank missles. These are left over from the 1970's when the USA sold arms to the former pro-USA regime of the Shaw of Iran.
Heavy and requiring a special launcher, they are usually mounted on a jeep or other vehicle.
The pro Hezbolla regime in Teheran supplies Hezbolla with these arms.





Timeline of Hezbollah Violence
Hezbollah and its history of international terrorism and violence:
1982: Israel invades Lebanon to drive out the PLO’s terrorist army, which had frequently attacked Israel from its informal "state-within-a-state" in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah, a Shiite group inspired by the teachings and revolution of Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, is created with the assistance of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The group is called Hezbollah–or "party of God"– after initially taking responsibility for attacks under the name "Islamic Jihad." (Not to be confused with the Palestinian terror organization Islamic Jihad.)
July 19, 1982: The president of the American University in Beirut, Davis S. Dodge, is kidnapped. Hezbollah is believed to be behind this and most of the other 30 Westerners kidnapped over the next ten years.

April 18, 1983: Hezbollah attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut with a car bomb, killing 63 people, 17 of whom were American citizens.
Oct. 23, 1983: The group attacks U.S. Marine barracks with a truck bomb, killing 241 American military personnel stationed in Beirut as part of a peace-keeping force. A separate attack against the French military compound in Beirut kills 58.
Sept. 20, 1984: The group attacks the U.S. embassy annex in Beirut with a car bomb, killing 2 Americans and 22 others.
March 16, 1984: William F. Buckley, a CIA operative working at the U.S. embassy in Beirut, is kidnapped and later murdered.
April 12, 1984: Hezbollah attacks a restaurant near the U.S. Air Force Base in Torrejon, Spain. The bombing kills eighteen U.S. servicemen and injures 83 people.
Dec. 4, 1984: Hezbollah terrorists hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane. Four passengers are murdered, including two Americans.

Feb. 16, 1985: Hezbollah publicizes its manifesto. It notes that the group's struggle will continue until Israel is destroyed and rejects any cease-fire or peace treaty with Israel. The document also attacks the U.S. and France.
June 14, 1985: Hezbollah terrorists hijack TWA flight 847. The hijackers severely beat Passenger Robert Stethem, a U.S. Navy diver, before killing him and dumping his body onto the tarmac at the Beirut airport. Other passengers are held as hostages before being released on June 30.
Dec. 31, 1986: Under the alias Organization of the Oppressed on Earth, Hezbollah announces it had kidnapped and murdered three Lebanese Jews. The organization previously had taken responsibility for killing four other Jews since 1984.
Feb. 17, 1988: The group kidnaps Col. William Higgins, a U.S. Marine serving with a United Nations truce monitoring group in Lebanon, and later murders him.
Oct. 22, 1989: Members of the dissolved Lebanese parliament ratify the Taif Agreement. Although the agreement calls for the "disbanding of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias," Hezbollah remains active.
Feb. 16, 1992: Sayyad Hassan Nasrallah takes over Hezbollah after Israel kills the group’s leader, Abbas Musawi.
March 17, 1992: With the help of Iranian intelligence, Hezbollah bombs the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29 and injuring over 200.
July 18, 1994: Hezbollah bombs the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires–again with Iranian help–killing 86 and injuring over 200.
Nov. 28, 1995: Hezbollah bombards towns in northern Israel with volleys of Katyusha rockets in one of the group's numerous attacks on Israeli civilians.
March 30, 1996: Hezbollah fires 28 Katyusha rockets into northern Israeli towns. A week later, the group fires 16 rockets, injuring 36 Israelis. Israel responds with a major offensive, known as the "Grapes of Wrath" operation, to stop Hezbollah rocket fire.
Aug. 19, 1997: Hezbollah opens fire on northern Israel with dozens of rockets in one of the group's numerous attacks on Israeli civilians.
October 1997: The United States lists Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
Dec. 28, 1998: Hezbollah opens fire on northern Israel with dozens of rockets in one of the group's numerous attacks on Israeli civilians.May 17, 1999: Hezbollah opens fire on northern Israel with dozens of rockets in one of the group's numerous attacks on Israeli civilians.
June 24, 1999: Hezbollah opens fire on northern Israel, killing 2.
May 23, 2000: Israel withdraws all troops from Lebanon after 18 years patrolling the "security zone," a strip of land in the south of the country. The security zone was set up to prevent attacks on northern Israel.

June 2000: United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan certifies Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon. Shortly thereafter, the U.N. Security Council endorses Annan’s report. Hezbollah nonetheless alleges Israel occupies Lebanon, claiming the small Shebba Farms area Israel captured from Syria during the 1967 war as Lebanese territory.
Oct. 7, 2000: Hezbollah attacks an Israel military post and raids Israel, kidnapping three Israeli soldiers. The soldiers are later assumed dead. In mid-October, Hezbollah leader Nasrallah announces the group has also kidnapped an Israeli businessman. In 2004, Israel frees over 400 Arab prisoners in exchange for the business man and the bodies of the three soldiers.
March 1, 2001: The British government adds Hezbollah’s "military wing" to its list of outlawed terrorist organizations.
April 9, 2002: Hezbollah launches Katyushas into northern Israeli town. This assault comes amidst almost daily Hezbollah attacks against Israeli troops in Shebba farms.
Dec. 11, 2002: Canada lists Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
Aug. 10, 2003: Hezbollah shells kills 16-year-old Israeli boy, wound others.
June 5, 2003: Australia lists Hezbollah’s "military wing" as a terrorist organization.
Sept. 2, 2004: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1559 calls for "the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias," a reference to Hezbollah.
December 2004: Both the United States and France ban Hezbollah’s satellite television network, Al Manar. A U.S. State Department spokesman notes the channel "preaches violence and hatred."
March 10, 2005: The European Parliament overwhelmingly passes a resolution stating: "Parliament considers that clear evidence exists of terrorist activities by Hezbollah. The (EU) Council should take all necessary steps to curtail them." The European Union nonetheless refrains from placing the group on its list of terror organizations.
July 12, 2006: Hezbollah attacks Israel with Katyushas, crosses the border and kidnaps two Israeli soldiers. Three Israeli soldiers are killed in the initial attack. Five more soldiers are killed as Israel launches operation to rescue the soldiers and push Hezbollah from its border. Hezbollah launches rockets into towns across northern Israel.
July -August 2006 Hezbollah fires hundreds of rockets daily for over 1 month killing 54 Israeli Civilians.

August 2006

Hezbolla Sager anti tank missle supplied by Syria. This wire guided missle was made in Russia during the 1970's and sold to Syria.
Used extensively by Syria against Israeli armor in 1973.
Syria supplies Hezbolla with these arms.

July 2006












Two Hezbolla men , dressed in civillian clothes,
pose for a photographer while a pile of junk tires
burns in the background after and Israeli air strike.

July - August 2006

Israeli man in Kiryat Shemone, cleans
up after Hezbolla rocket struck his house.

July 2006
Hezbolla Rockets fired from Lebanon
rain down on Haifa.
Israel ploliceman directs photographer to
shelter.

In his own words Hassan Nasrallah


"The complete destruction of Israel"
" Gathering the Jews in One Place to Kill them"
"Exporting the Iranian Islamic Revolution to Lebanon"
"Death to America"

If you Google Lebanon's Hezbollah leader, you can spend a couple of days
reading his remarks. A masterful politician, Nasrallah's Neo Nazi Hezbollah
party has gained seats and major influence in Lebanon's parliment. Backed, funded
and supplied by Syria and Iran, Hezbolla boasts the most powerful military force in Lebanon.
In 1982 Hezbolla's first terror feat was the destruction of the US Marine barracks in Beirut
by sending a suicide bomber in an explosives packed car slamming into the building, killing
hundreds of US Servicemen.

Haifa, Israel July - August 2006

Israeli car destroyed by Hezbolla Katyusha Rocket. Each Rocket is filled with tens of thousands of ball bearings which fly in all directions. Hezbollah fires the rockets at Israel
from Southern Lebanon. The firing is random and indiscriminate. Hezbollah rocket teams aim south, towards Israel and hope for maximum destruction.

Photo Lenny Mas


Israel's Soldiers, Bury a Fallen Comrade

Funeral - Druze - Israeli Soldier


Hezbollah Rockets Set Galilee Forests on Fire
Soldier's Funeral on the final day of the 2006 War.

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