I think he meant Hezbollah’s attack was unprovoked (which I guess means he’s either unaware of the events on May 28, or believes, like I do, that something fishy was going on with the discovery of the "spy ring)
But don’t worry, that bit may not be equine feces, but I have an idea what might be…
Interesting pantom, let’s see what pantom has to say about that.
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Fascinating debate.
I wonder what pantom will say about pantom’s claims that one could have saved Lebanon’s wider populace by “going after” Hezbollah? What will pantom say about pantom’s contention that saying Israel should go after Hezbollah was a stupid argument?
Will pantom take pantom to task for “stupidly arguing” that the correct course of action was to “go after” Hezbollah, since evidently pantom believes that it was an impossiblity? Why does pantom believe that pantom suggested something that he believes to be false? Why does pantom think that pantom argued a position which he didn’t agree with?
Hmmmm…
And all the unprovoked Hezbollah attacks between now and six years ago, including those on May 28, which would be just a few days before July 12… what impact did those have on forcing that 75% of Lebanon to take action? Or the attacks and kidnappings in october of 2000 that led to Israeli overflights resuming? Or any other times that Hezbollah broke ceasfires or periods of calm?
Was Lebanon requesting UN reinforcements on May 29th?
Or did the government of Lebanon, perhaps, claim to have broken an “Israeli spy ring”, ‘validating’ Hezbollah claim to justified attacks on Israel? Hezbollah’s opposition claimed the entire ‘spy ring’ was manufactured and invented by Hezbollah, obtained via a government known to use torture, and that it strains belief to say that in two weeks they caught a dangerous ring of spies, who had documents directly linking them to Mosad, those careless spies who use business cards or some such, (:dubious: ) but that the ‘proof’ was never released and that Rafik Hariri’s killers have never been found? And that Hussein Khattab, a Palestinian and a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -General Command was also one of these “spies”?
Lebanon did nothing at all substantive all those other times when Hezbollah attacked with provocation, and may indeed have helped Hezbollah fabricate justification after the May 28th attacks. In addition, elements in the Lebanese government and Defense Ministry have continued support for Hezbollah and helped get weapons to them ever after Hezbollah had continued to break ceasefires and periods of calm… but this time, pantom assures us, it would’ve been different.
Pantom also ignores that much of the animosity towards Hezbollah at the start of the war was not for the simple act of attacking Israel, but because they had called down reprisals on them, and those they sheltered among/the infrastructure which allowed weapons to be trucked in to theml, in the process.
Will we see, next week, pantom arguing that people have “stupidly argued” that Hezbollah would have been dealt with by the rest of Lebanon if only Israel hadn’t responded?
I wait with bated breath.