Why is Hezbollah sitting this one out?

[JimH52]

Why Hezbollah is sitting on 40,000 rockets and missiles and sitting out the Gaza conflict - World News

Interesting...

 

[toastman]

Why? Because South Lebanon was in ruins after the 2006 War. Any aggression towards Israel from Lebanon, and it will happen again. and again and again and again until they get the point!

 

[waltky]

Granny says dem Hezbollah is just a buncha terrorists...

We can hit all of Israel in future war: Hezbollah
Nov 25, 2012, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel on Sunday that thousands of rockets would rain down on Tel Aviv and cities across the Jewish state if it attacked Lebanon.

Speaking four days after the ceasefire which ended a week of conflict between Israel and the Islamist Hamas rulers of Gaza, Nasrallah said Hezbollah's response to any attack would dwarf the rocket fire launched from Palestinian territories. "Israel, which was shaken by a handful of Fajr-5 rockets during eight days — how would it cope with thousands of rockets which would fall on Tel Aviv and other (cities) ... if it attacked Lebanon?" Nasrallah said. The Fajr-5s, with a range of 75km (45 miles) — able to strike Tel Aviv or Jerusalem — and 175kg (386 lb) warheads, are the most powerful and long-range rockets to have been fired from Gaza.

But Hezbollah, which fought Israel to a standstill in a 34-day war six years ago, says it has been re-arming since then and has a far deadlier arsenal than Hamas. Nasrallah has said Hezbollah could kill tens of thousands of people and strike anywhere inside Israel if hostilities break out again. "If the confrontation with the Gaza Strip ... had a range of 40 to 70 km, the battle with us will range over the whole of occupied Palestine — from the Lebanese border to the Jordanian border, to the Red Sea," Nasrallah said.

Hezbollah could hit targets "from Kiryat Shmona — and let the Israelis listen carefully — from Kiryat Shmona to Eilat", he said, referring to Israeli's northernmost town on the Lebanese border to the Red Sea port 290 miles further south. The movement has warned that any Israeli attack against the nuclear facilities of its patron Iran, which has armed and funded the Lebanese Shia Muslim militant group, would inflame the Middle East — though it has not specified its own response.

In a move it said showed it could penetrate deep inside Israeli defences, it flew a drone over Israel last month. The drone was shot down after flying 25 miles into southern Israel. Israel says its Iron Dome missile defence system knocked out 90 per cent of the rockets fired from Gaza which were on course to hit populated areas.

Tens of thousands mark Ashura

 

[waltky]

Hezbollah & Iran formin' militias in Syria to help prop up Assad...

Report: Iran and Hezbollah Forming Militias in Syria
February 11, 2013 - A report published Monday by the Washington Post says Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah have been building a militia network in Syria to preserve their interests if President Bashar al-Assad's government collapses.

Citing unnamed senior U.S. and Middle Eastern officials, the report says the militia's immediate goal is to support Mr. Assad's military as it battles rebel forces in a civil war that is approaching its third year. But the officials say the long-term goal is to have a reliable presence in Syria in the event the government collapses or is forced to retreat from Damascus.

A senior Obama administration official was quoted as saying "It is important for Iran to have a force in Syria that is reliable and can be counted on." Neither Iranian nor Hezbollah officials have commented on the report. The United Nations says more than 60,000 people have died since the Syrian conflict began in March of 2011.

On Monday, activists in Syria said rebels had taken hold of the country's largest hydro-electric dam along the Euphrates River in the northern province of Raqa. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the dam is still in operation. Government and rebel accounts cannot be independently verified because Syria does not permit journalists to report freely.

Report: Iran and Hezbollah Forming Militias in Syria

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Syrian rebels capture country's largest dam
Feb 11,`13 -- Syrian rebels scored one of their biggest strategic victories Monday since the country's crisis began two years ago, capturing the nation's largest dam and iconic industrial symbol of the Assad family's four-decade rule.

Rebels led by the al-Qaida-linked militant group Jabhat al-Nusra now control much of the water flow in the country's north and east, eliciting warnings from experts that any mistake in managing the dam may drown wide areas in Syria and Iraq. A Syrian government official denied that the rebels captured the dam, saying "heavy clashes are taking place around it." The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations. But amateur video released by activists showed gunmen walking around the facility's operations rooms and employees apparently carrying on with their work as usual.

In the capital, Damascus, the rebels kept the battle going mostly in northeastern and southern neighborhoods as the fighting gets closer to the heart of President Bashar Assad's seat of power. The capture of the al-Furat dam came after rebels seized two smaller dams on the Euphrates river, which flows from Turkey through Syria and into Iraq. Behind al-Furat dam lies Lake Assad, which at 640 square kilometers (247 square miles) is the country's largest water reservoir. The dam produces 880 megawatts of electricity, a small amount of the country's production. Syria's electricity production relies on plants powered by natural gas and fuel oil.

Still, the capture handed the rebels control over water and electricity supplies for both government-held areas and large swaths of land the opposition has captured over the past 22 months of fighting. "This is the most important dam in Syria. It is a strategic dam, and Lake Assad is one of the largest artificial lakes in the region," said Rami Abdul-Rahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "It supplies many areas around Syria with electricity," Abdul-Rahman said, citing the provinces of Raqqa, Hassaka and Aleppo in the north as well as Deir el-Zour in the east near the Iraqi border.

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[Roudy]

Why Hezbollah is sitting on 40,000 rockets and missiles and sitting out the Gaza conflict - World News

Interesting...

Why, because the Israelis turned southern Lebanon into rubble the last go around. Even that idiot Nasrallah as stupid and terrorist as he is said he made a big mistake and under estimated the Israelis. And had he known he would have never done it.

So now he understands not to fuck with the Israelis. It usually takes a really good ass kicking by the Israelis to make these donkeys understand. More proof that Israel understand quite well how to communicate a message to these barbaric animals.

 

[Roudy]

Hezbollah & Iran formin' militias in Syria to help prop up Assad...

Report: Iran and Hezbollah Forming Militias in Syria
February 11, 2013 - A report published Monday by the Washington Post says Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah have been building a militia network in Syria to preserve their interests if President Bashar al-Assad's government collapses.

Citing unnamed senior U.S. and Middle Eastern officials, the report says the militia's immediate goal is to support Mr. Assad's military as it battles rebel forces in a civil war that is approaching its third year. But the officials say the long-term goal is to have a reliable presence in Syria in the event the government collapses or is forced to retreat from Damascus.

A senior Obama administration official was quoted as saying "It is important for Iran to have a force in Syria that is reliable and can be counted on." Neither Iranian nor Hezbollah officials have commented on the report. The United Nations says more than 60,000 people have died since the Syrian conflict began in March of 2011.

On Monday, activists in Syria said rebels had taken hold of the country's largest hydro-electric dam along the Euphrates River in the northern province of Raqa. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the dam is still in operation. Government and rebel accounts cannot be independently verified because Syria does not permit journalists to report freely.

Report: Iran and Hezbollah Forming Militias in Syria

See also:

Syrian rebels capture country's largest dam
Feb 11,`13 -- Syrian rebels scored one of their biggest strategic victories Monday since the country's crisis began two years ago, capturing the nation's largest dam and iconic industrial symbol of the Assad family's four-decade rule.

Rebels led by the al-Qaida-linked militant group Jabhat al-Nusra now control much of the water flow in the country's north and east, eliciting warnings from experts that any mistake in managing the dam may drown wide areas in Syria and Iraq. A Syrian government official denied that the rebels captured the dam, saying "heavy clashes are taking place around it." The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations. But amateur video released by activists showed gunmen walking around the facility's operations rooms and employees apparently carrying on with their work as usual.

In the capital, Damascus, the rebels kept the battle going mostly in northeastern and southern neighborhoods as the fighting gets closer to the heart of President Bashar Assad's seat of power. The capture of the al-Furat dam came after rebels seized two smaller dams on the Euphrates river, which flows from Turkey through Syria and into Iraq. Behind al-Furat dam lies Lake Assad, which at 640 square kilometers (247 square miles) is the country's largest water reservoir. The dam produces 880 megawatts of electricity, a small amount of the country's production. Syria's electricity production relies on plants powered by natural gas and fuel oil.

Still, the capture handed the rebels control over water and electricity supplies for both government-held areas and large swaths of land the opposition has captured over the past 22 months of fighting. "This is the most important dam in Syria. It is a strategic dam, and Lake Assad is one of the largest artificial lakes in the region," said Rami Abdul-Rahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "It supplies many areas around Syria with electricity," Abdul-Rahman said, citing the provinces of Raqqa, Hassaka and Aleppo in the north as well as Deir el-Zour in the east near the Iraqi border.

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That's right, they can't afford opening up another front with the Israelis. They are financially and militarily strapped enough as it is. Behind all the bravado they know these are desperate times.

 

[Jos]

Hezbollah is there to defend against israeli attacks

 

[toastman]

Hezbollah is there to defend against israeli attacks

Like they defended themselves by killing Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev in 2006 and taking their bodies??

 

[irosie91]

Hezbollah is there to defend against israeli attacks

nail bombs have no value whatsoever in "DEFENSE"
their sole value is in smashing the brains out of children---
and have been so used by jihadists thruout the world
In fact shiite sluts tie them to their stinking asses in
order to murder sunni children in Iraq

Nus-kharah-allah launched tens of thousands of them
onto Israel in 2006 and BOASTED that he was capable
of launching them onto the heads of children as far as
tel aviv and even Beer Sheva'


children lie dead in the dust in many countries
because of those "DEFENDING" nail bomb.
even in Gujurat India and New Dehli India
to the delight of jihadista sluts. Similar bombs
have been found in the hands of ISA RESPECTERS
in both the USA and in CANADA. Sluts who
tie bombs to their asses are called
HOLY SHAHIDA in mosques around the world

 

[MJB12741]

King Hussein sure understood that. Israel needs a leader like him who understands Palestinian mentality & knows how to establish a lasting peace from the Paletinians like Hussein did. LET THERE BE PEACE ALREADY!

Why Hezbollah is sitting on 40,000 rockets and missiles and sitting out the Gaza conflict - World News

Interesting...

Why, because the Israelis turned southern Lebanon into rubble the last go around. Even that idiot Nasrallah as stupid and terrorist as he is said he made a big mistake and under estimated the Israelis. And had he known he would have never done it.

So now he understands not to fuck with the Israelis. It usually takes a really good ass kicking by the Israelis to make these donkeys understand. More proof that Israel understand quite well how to communicate a message to these barbaric animals.

 

[Roudy]

Hezbollah is there to defend against israeli attacks

Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that assissinated the prime minister of Lebanon. They are a bunch of animals and Islamic thugs that have taken the country hostage.

Anything Jos says believe the opposite.

 

[RoccoR]

Roudy, Jos, et al,

First, let me make clear, I do not support Hezbollah.

Hezbollah is there to defend against israeli attacks

Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that assissinated the prime minister of Lebanon. They are a bunch of animals and Islamic thugs that have taken the country hostage.

Anything Jos says believe the opposite.

(COMMENT-THUMNAIL)

Hezbollah is a complex and composite organization that has a number of facets to it:

• A Legitimate Political Component
• A Complex Militia Component
  • Regulars (Paramilitary)
  • Irregulars (Border and Reserve Guard)
  • Special Operations
• Local Government Assistance
  • Civil Affairs & Civil Actions
  • Refugee Control
  • Education and Medical Components

If you've been to Syria or the al-Bekka Valley, you would notice that the Hezbollah is not nearly as covert as one might think. They are listed in the phone books, and has big signs in the front of the local offices. A blind CT Agent could find them with a seeing-eye dog.

What we normally associate with Hezbollah (terrorism and conventional military operations) is really a fraction of the general activities for which they are involved.

The political component of Hezbollah is becoming ever more influential in Lebanon. The Hezbollah in Syria is already involved in a struggle and hedging their bets.

Iran and Hezbollah, its Lebanese proxy, are building a network of militias inside Syria to preserve their interests in the event that President Bashar al-Assad's government falls or is forced to retreat from Damascus, according to US and Middle Eastern officials.

The militias are fighting alongside Syrian government forces. But officials believe Iran's long-term goal is to have reliable operatives in place in the event that Syria fractures into separate ethnic and sectarian enclaves.
SOURCE: Iran and Hezbollah build militia networks in Syria, officials say | World news | Guardian Weekly

Remember, the political arm of Hezbollah is interested in expanding its power and influence. And as it expands its operations against the general population of Syria, it garners favor with the Assad Regime.

In Lebanon, Hezbollah is mending bridges with the Lebanese Armed Forces. Hezbollah doesn't want to create a situation in which Israel is forced into another ground incursion into Lebanon and decimate the Lebanese Army and what Air Force rises to the challenge. And Hezbollah does not want to be fighting on two fronts.

Also remember that the Hezbollah umbilical to Iran (IRGC-QF) is crucial, and a major confrontation with the Israelis may damage Iranian interests in Lebanon and Syria which are primary to the Palestinian concerns. Once Iran has secured its interest in Syria (stabilized) and linked it with Lebanese operations, the focus will again shift. Iran, via Hezbollah, doesn't want to be caught fighting on two fronts.

Most Respectfully,
R