Getting serious in Lebanon (Updated and bumped --Twice)
Contributed by Bill Faith
I'm starting a new Israel-Lebanon post with things I would have probably just added to my earlier post if TypePad hadn't lost it. [Update: I've recreated the original post here.] Report: Israel hits Beirut airport
Officials have closed Beirut International Airport after Israeli warplanes struck runways in the Lebanese capital's Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs, The Associated Press reported.
Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation showed video of plumes of black smoke, rising from explosions at Beirut International Airport Thursday morning.
Journalist Anthony Mills reported hearing fighter jets, explosions and anti-aircraft fire in the area of the airport.
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Rockets' Red Glare
Michelle Malkin
Escalation: Israeli aircraft attacked Beirut airport and killed 22 civilians in strikes on south Lebanon on Thursday, dramatically widening its reprisals after Hizbollah captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight.
Hizbollah retaliated for "Israeli massacres" by firing 60 rockets at Nahariya. The Israeli army said Katyusha rockets had hit the northern Israeli city and that one civilian was killed.
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Update/Bump -- Originally posted 2006.07.13.00:01 Israel strikes Beirut airport, blocks ports
BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Israeli aircraft bombed Beirut International Airport on Thursday before blocking naval traffic in Lebanese waters as Israel expanded its military campaign against Hezbollah guerrillas who kidnapped two Israeli soldiers.
Israel Defense Forces said the aim of the naval blockade, announced at midday, was to "block the transfer of terrorists and weaponry."
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Allah's been doing continuous updates to his post here. An Act of War
Tom Bevan
There's a long, must-read editorial in the Jerusalem Post this morning, but here's the one sentence, Cliffs Notes version: Hizbullah and Hamas must be dealt direct, heavy blows from which they will not quickly recover.
UPDATE: The New York Times offers limp support for Israel by acknowledging its right to respond, but the editorial contains also this knee-slapper: "calling the rockets an "act of war" by Lebanon's government was not a good idea."
Really? ...
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Update/Bump Bush Backs Israel's Right to Self Defense
STRALSUND, Germany (AP) - President Bush said Thursday that Israel has the right to defend itself, as it launched fresh attacks on Lebanon after the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers.
Bush laid the blame for the escalation of violence along the border on Hezbollah, whose guerrillas mounted a cross-border raid earlier in the week and captured the two soldiers. He also said that Syria "needs to be held to account" for supporting and harboring Hezbollah.
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Rockets hit Israel after airport attack
BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Rockets fired from Lebanon hit a number of towns and villages in Israel on Thursday, hours after Israeli aircraft bombed Beirut International Airport.
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*** The Brink of War?
The Ugly American
I have firmly believed since 9/11/2001 that World War 3 is nearly inevitable. The Islamofascists want this war and will do everything they can to force it upon us.
In a post earlier today, Hugh Hewitt quoted from President Lincoln’s second Inaugural address: “Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.”
Just as they did 141 years ago Lincoln’s words cut to the very heart of truth. No matter what we do the Islamofascist’s ultimate goal is war.
Today’s events in Israel bring us to another critical moment in history. Israel responded swiftly, but this is just the beginning.
I called Hugh’s show earlier today after he stated Israel should bomb Damascus (one of Hezbollah’s puppet masters) tonight. My gut agrees but the question is and the one I asked Hugh is what then?
Will an air raid on Damascus be the preface for a larger war in the middle east?
How would Syria respond, or their allies and Hezbollah’s patriarch Iran?
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CQ: Is Lebanon The Right Target?
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Fox News: Israel Bombs Palestinian Foreign Ministry
Israel Wages War on Hezbollah as Jets Strike Airbase
JPost: Hizbullah wants soldiers moved to Iran
Allah: Breaking: Israel attacks Lebanese army (Update: Hostages being moved to Iran?)
Persian Perfidy - by Peter Brookes
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