August 17, 2006 15:21 EDT
......The disarming of Hezbollah is a ``pipe dream,'' said Timor Goksel, who was Unifil spokesman for 20 years until 2003 and now teaches at the American University of Beirut. ``The Lebanese army is going south to defend Lebanon, not Israel.''
Malaysia said today that it wants to send peacekeepers to Lebanon even as Israel says it might oppose the inclusion of countries with which it does not have diplomatic ties, Reuters reported, citing Malaysian Defense Minister Najib Razak.
``There is no reason whatsoever to stop us from sending our men there,'' Razak told reporters, Reuters said.
Predominantly Muslim Malaysia and Indonesia have each offered to send 1,000 troops to the UN force and neither has diplomatic relations with Israel, the news service reported.
Iranian Congratulations
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei congratulated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on his organization's fight with Israel, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported. Khamenei said Hezbollah scored a victory for Islam and demonstrated vulnerabilities in the Israeli military.
Hezbollah, whose name means Party of God and is sponsored by Iran and Syria, has been linked to scores of terrorist attacks on Israelis and Americans, including rocket assaults on Israeli towns, bombings in Beirut in 1983 that killed 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French soldiers, and the 1994 attack that killed 85 people at a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.
Full article can be found at: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ayHgCAF9i.cA&refer=homeNow, my points of view on this whole mess..
In the first place, why were these Islamic parties like Hezbollah and Hamas formed? Are they revealing the true intentions and reason for Islam?
Not every gory bloody picture you see in the news can be accurately associated with the print that comes along with it. Has anyone ever wondered if those pictures are actually associated with the right incident at the right time and the right place. Propaganda. That's what both sides want to create to make the world join their side.
Israeli troops harming and kiling women and children. Did it never occur to anyone that ANY MILITARY FORCE does its own share of harming people - including women and children? War is war, and the killing happens. So now everyone wants to send troops to stop Israel from killing women and children, when your own bombing does in fact kill anyone including women and children? Stop labeling Israel as women and children murderers! THink about every other military force of any country. You're no better off than you think you are.
"I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you
I will make your name great
and you will be a blessing
I will bless those who bless you
and whoever curses you I will curse
and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you"
Genesis 12:2-3
Ever wondered why the surrounding countries like Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc are all in turmoil? The blessing went somewhere else, I guess. You figure that out for yourselves.
baruch ata adonai, eloheinu melech ha-olam, rokei ha-aretz al ha-mayim
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