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The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten has summarized an Israeli military briefing by Israeli Chief of Staff Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi of a US congressional delegation a little over a year ago and concludes that:
The memo on the talks between Ashkenazi and [Congressman Ike] Skelton, as well as numerous other documents from the same period of time, to which Aftenposten has gained access, leave a clear message: The Israeli military is forging ahead at full speed with preparations for a new war in the Middle East.
WikiLeaks: Israel Plans Total War on Lebanon, Gaza
Seeded on Tue Jan 4, 2011 1:13 AM EST
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The general's plans are driven by fear of growing stockpiles of rockets in Hamas-controlled Gaza and in Hizbullah-controlled Southern Lebanon, the likely theaters of the planned major new war. Ashkenazi does not seem capable of considering that, given a number of Israeli invasions and occupations of those regions, the rockets may be primarily defensive.
Ashkenazi told the visiting delegation that Israeli unmanned drones had had great success in identifying rocket emplacements in southern Lebanon, and that it had been aided in this endeavor by the US National Security Agency,which spies on communications.
#1 - Tue Jan 4, 2011 1:14 AM ESTAshkenazi does not seem capable of considering that, given a number of Israeli invasions and occupations of those regions, the rockets may be primarily defensive.
Didn't Hezbollah start the 2006 war? Also, the 1982 war was in response to an attempted assassination IIRC. (Not to mention the little kidnapping excursion in 2000) Never-mind that Hezbollah has threatened Israel on a fairly regular basis for quite a while now....
Hell, didn't Hezbollah just run drills for taking over Lebanon?? The only good thing one could say about them is that they usually don't like the killing of civilians.
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