Washington - Report: U.S. Tells Lebanese Army 'Israel Can Destroy You Within Four Hours' |
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Washington - The US warned Lebanon that if it did not prevent any recurrence of the border-fire incident that occurred earlier this month, the IDF would destroy the Lebanese Armed Forces within four hours, Israel Radio cited a report by Lebanese newspaper A-Liwaa on Friday.
According to the report, Frederick Hoff, assistant to US Middle East Peace Envoy George Mitchell, told Lebanese Army chief of staff Jean Kahwaji that Israel was ready to implement a plan to destroy within four hours all Lebanese military infrastructure, including army bases and offices, should a similar confrontation occur in the future.
The IDF had informed the UNIFIL peacekeeping force along the border ahead of time of the intended tree-clearing operation.
UNIFIL later confirmed that the IDF troops were on the Israeli side of the border when the incident occurred, contradicting LAF claims that Lebanese sniper fire directed at the Israeli troops had been justified by an incursion upon Lebanese territory.
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Aug 27, 2010 at 08:57 AM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
I want to hear the USA talk this way, tell the same words to the Iranians.
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Aug 27, 2010 at 09:09 AM oiber-chacham Says:Report as Inappropriate
as long as this leftist self hating pathetic coward Ehud Barak is defence minister,no one will take Israel seriously,under this traitors leadership the IDF has become a joke,and the whole world is laughing at it.
Citizens of Israel ,get rid of this abomination or you will find yourself without a country
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Aug 27, 2010 at 09:29 AM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
Yes and then Israel will have a storm of rockets for six months...
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Aug 27, 2010 at 10:09 AM charliehall Says:Report as Inappropriate
#1,
Destroying the Iranian army won't take four days; it might take four years. It would require reinstitution of the military draft in the US along with a massive tax increase. Do you support that?
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Aug 27, 2010 at 10:51 AM Q Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ as long as this leftist self hating pathetic coward Ehud Barak is defence minister,no one will take Israel seriously,under this traitors leadership the IDF has become a joke,and the whole world is laughing at it.
Citizens of Israel ,get rid of this abomination or you will find yourself without a country ”
Go ahead, call one of the most decorated combat heroes in Israeli history a coward, but first please enlighten us as to your military experience and accomplishments.
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Aug 27, 2010 at 10:52 AM clear-thinker Says:Report as Inappropriate
#2 Once again a self style oiber-chachan shows his true worth. I take it you were next to Barak when he flew into Lebanon. I take it you too fought in wars to defend Israel. We can disagree with someone's politics without calling people traitors. I only can hope that your rant came from Israel rather than Brooklyn.
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Aug 27, 2010 at 11:02 AM to you Mr Liberal Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ #1,
Destroying the Iranian army won't take four days; it might take four years. It would require reinstitution of the military draft in the US along with a massive tax increase. Do you support that? ”
Do you support another holocaust. (G-d forbid)?
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Aug 27, 2010 at 01:16 PM Askupeh Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ #1,
Destroying the Iranian army won't take four days; it might take four years. It would require reinstitution of the military draft in the US along with a massive tax increase. Do you support that? ”
#4, Iran is a paper tiger. I agree it won't take four days, but not much more. The conventional war is the easy part; it is the unconventional war after that which is the problem. The United States won the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, but now is loosing the unconventional war. The same is with Lebanon. Israel can defeat it in 4 hours but then the Hezbollah gets unleashed and that becomes much more difficult as we saw last time. That's why this warning is calculated to tell the Lebanese not to do Hezbollah's bidding or else; to make sure that your Hezbollah supporting soldiers aren't anywhere near the border with Israel. To make this threat have teeth, Israel responded in the latest incident by bombing Lebanese military infrastructure and the Lebanese government frantically called Israel on the phone crying and pleading with them to stop. This is the only language they understand. Brute force and diplomacy work very well together.
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Aug 27, 2010 at 05:17 PM charliehall Says:Report as Inappropriate
Iraq was supposed to be a quick war.
Iran has a huge military, which is well equipped. The terrain is quite mountanous, easily defended, and not the kind of terrain that US forces are most easily able to take and hold. The US military is currently stretched to its limits of both manpower and equipment; large amounts of additional manpower can only be obtained by a draft and it will take some time to ramp up production of armaments and munitions. We have been in Afghanistan for nine years and still have not defeated the Taliban; Iran has a far stronger military and the mullahs still have a lot of popular support, particularly in rural areas. And these costs will require a massive tax increase.
The reckless commenters here who will fight to the last young American should themselves volunteer for service. (As should the despicable person who called Ehud Barak a coward.)
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Aug 29, 2010 at 12:48 PM favish Says:Report as Inappropriate
#8... #4, who thinks israel won wars like 'kechol hagaoim huyinu', so he says what he says,. but we, who believe those wars won by israel were not 'kochi voitzem yadi' but 'lo becharbi eftoch, uvekashti... ...', we(israel army) do our thing, but our faith rests in borei kol alomim, the same nisim that he did by the other wars he can do here..(.did this #4 read up on how israel went about and destroyed syrian reactor ? iraqi reactor? yes, yes they found out this they did that blah, blah but woithout yshuas hashem ...This #4 fellas posters all over are far from emunas hasgachu pratious ...
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Aug 30, 2010 at 09:43 AM ActualJew Says:Report as Inappropriate
and the four hours includes a lunch break.