By Joseph Klein
Last August, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah
threatened Israel with the use of precision rockets in Hezbollah's possession
which, Nasrallah warned, could turn the lives of "hundreds of thousands of
Zionists to real hell, and we can talk about tens of thousands of dead." Yet
the international community has not lifted a finger to enforce the terms of the
Security Council resolutions requiring the disarming of Hezbollah, not to
mention the embargo on further arms shipments to Hezbollah. With Syria in a
virtual death spiral and more sophisticated arms on their way to Hezbollah in
Lebanon, Israel saw little choice but to enforce the Security Council
resolutions itself for the sake of protecting its own civilian population.
Israel stopped its fighting with Hezbollah in 2006 upon assurances
that effective steps would be taken to stop the flow of arms to Hezbollah. The
opposite has occurred. Israel could no longer stand by and watch a flood of
conventional and unconventional weapons leaving war-torn Syria and ending up in
the hands of terrorists who had threatened to kill tens of thousands of
Israelis. Israel did no more than enforce the Security Council’s own
resolutions. [more...]
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