Israel/Palestine

Eugene

(61,945 posts) Sun Dec 27, 2015, 02:45 PM Dec 2015

Hezbollah leader tells Israel to brace for retaliation over Qantar's death

Source: Reuters

World | Sun Dec 27, 2015 12:45pm EST

Hezbollah leader tells Israel to brace for retaliation over Qantar's death

BEIRUT | BY LAILA BASSAM

The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah group said on Sunday that Israel miscalculated by killing prominent militant Samir Qantar in Syria last week, saying that retaliation for his death was inevitable, whatever the consequences.

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, speaking in a ceremony to mark a week since Qantar's death in a strike in a residential quarter of Damascus, said Israelis should brace themselves for a response either inside or outside Israel.

"The Israelis should be justifiably worried... They should be worried along the border, inside (Israel) and outside," he said.

"The response is coming no matter what ... We cannot forgive the shedding of our mujahideen blood by the Zionists ... anywhere in the world," he said. Israel has welcomed Qantar's death, but has not confirmed it carried out the air strike that killed him.

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said on Saturday Israel took seriously a possible retaliation for Qantar's killing and accused Iran, Hezbollah's backer, of trying to open "a terrorist front on the Golan Heights".

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Hezbollah leader tells Israel to brace for retaliation over Qantar's death (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2015 OP

Qantar was working on committing more terror attacks against Jews 6chars Dec 2015 #1

Illustrates the double-standard in reporting of killing of Army of Islam military commander leveymg Dec 2015 #2

No it doesn't oberliner Dec 2015 #3

No it doesn't, yes it does, no it doesn't . . . no point in arguing this if you're going to take leveymg Dec 2015 #4

6chars

(3,967 posts)

1. Qantar was working on committing more terror attacks against Jews

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sun Dec 27, 2015, 02:56 PM

Dec 2015

so terror since he was killed and terror if he wasn't. Hezbollah really likes terror a lot for a political organization. From what I have read, if they really want to start a major conflict again with Israel, it will result in quite a lot - really a lot - of destruction in southern Lebanon which will lead to strong condemnation of Israel.

leveymg

(36,418 posts)

2. Illustrates the double-standard in reporting of killing of Army of Islam military commander

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sun Dec 27, 2015, 03:18 PM

Dec 2015

This is all about bitter vows of revenge, whereas when a leader of a Sunni militia died in a Russian airstrike just a few days before, that was portrayed as "imperils planned peace talks." Whatever "peace" means in the context of this genocidal religious conflict.

Killing of Syrian Rebel Faction Leader Imperils Planned Peace Talks [View all]
Source: Wall Street Journal

BEIRUT—The leader of one of the largest rebel groups fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime was killed Friday in an airstrike on the outskirts of Damascus, imperiling a fragile new plan backed by the U.N. to restart peace talks.

A Syrian army general said in a televised statement that the regime’s air force bombed a rebel command center in the eastern suburbs and killed Zahran Alloush, leader of the group known as the Army of Islam, and several of his associates. He called them all “terrorists.”

But opposition activists as well as the media arm of the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah—an Assad ally playing a leading role in battles in the Damascus area—said a Russian airstrike killed Mr. Alloush and the others. Russia intervened in the Syria war in September to prop up the Assad regime.

“For sure it will cause a big delay and it may kill the whole process,” Hadi al-Bahra, a Syrian opposition leader, said of Mr. Alloush’s death. “Whoever committed this crime is pushing for a military solution, not a political process solution,” he added.

Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/leader-of-syrian-rebel-faction-killed-1451066717

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

3. No it doesn't

Reply to leveymg (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 27, 2015, 03:29 PM

Dec 2015

Completely different situations in virtually every respect (not to mention two different sources).

leveymg

(36,418 posts)

4. No it doesn't, yes it does, no it doesn't . . . no point in arguing this if you're going to take

Reply to oberliner (Reply #3)

Sun Dec 27, 2015, 03:32 PM

Dec 2015

that sort of Pavlovian approach to the issue of media bias in coverage of Syria.

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