'Jihadiwood' and America's auto-immune disease

Dixon

But they already had M16s and M113s for, what, decades. This is nothing compared to the billions in mlitary aid being ploughed into Pakistan who are using it directly against us.

And what about the fact, which even I found shocking to discover, that Nottighamshire based Heckler und Koch have licensed arms manufacturing concerns actually IN Iran, arming the Iranian regime ( HK33 rifles, MP5 SMGs ) and, indirectly, further afield, the Janjaweed (HK33 rifles). The British free market and their German collegues are directly and deeply in choots with our very worst enemy!

AY

Most likely Israeli officers were shot not from American rifle but from the old Soviet-made SVD. What is more important is clear coordination between jihadis in Lebanese Army, Hezbollah, and Indonesian UNIFIL.

Here is how it was. Israelis notified UNIFIL 24 hours in advance that they will start working. UNIFIL responded that their commander is out and asked to wait, therefore creating a pre-text for "misunderstanding". Israelis said this is our territory so we will proceed anyway. UNIFIL passed this info to Hezbolla and they prepared ambush. When works started, UNIFIL soldiers suddenly began shouting at Israelis, and Lebanese soldiers standing nearby shot in the air and then opened fire at IDF engineer unit, - but, deliberately missing. Only after getting first shots in response (again, a pretext), sniper ambush was unleashed and high rank commanders shot - well planned cynical provocation.

This is one enemy, and one stand. Sniper shots from Lebanon, flotillas from Turkey, rockets from Gaza, imams from Ryadh, presidents from Islamabad, and sucide bombers from London.

The West must resist.

Dixon

Ay...you forgot the main component of the war on the West: lefties from among us.

Wait... one or two of them should be along here shortly to speak up for their future masters.

Israelinurse

AY - the very first shot fired was straight to the head of Lt. Col. Dov Harari who was standing at a considerable distance from the soldiers involved in clearing the vegetation.
Prior to the commencement of the work the deputy battalion commander had indicated to his UN counterpart every single piece of vegetation they intended to remove and had received the latter's permission.

Mairt

Dixon am with you 100% but what I cannot understand is how the "lefties" are so blind and/or stupid. The atrocities coming out of the middle east should be enough to deter even Mother Theresa.....

AY

israelinurse - if IDF asked for UNIFIL's "permission" to cut trees on Israeli territory, that would amount to giving up sovereignety.

But these are details, the fact is that it is the hostile border, it's not like border with Switzerland with Italy, right?
If one asks Israelis why is that so, the answer will be "because they continue to attack us".
If one asks Lebanese, they will push forward lot of arguments about "injustice", like "refugees", "land grab" bla bla, but in the core the reason is that this industry of hate is installed and payed by Iran, and Lebanese are used as cannon fodder.

Frank P

A wonderful last paragraph to an excellent and coruscating report from the only journalist in the UK prepared to tell it the way it is and adduce the evidence to back up her work.

Derek BLADES

The United States provides military assistance to the Lebanese Armed Forces with the specific intention of strengthening them against Hezbollah. To suggest that the United States is arming Hezbollah is poppycock.

What killed the five Lebanese casualties (not four as now claimed)? Was any of the equipment American? If so, why is that not seen as shocking by the contributors to this blog. It is certainly seen in that light by the Lebanese.

Adam B.

Derek, the Lebanese fired first. The Israelis were in Israel.

How awful that the Israelis should defend themselves. And with Us weapons no less!

Scandalous!

New Brunswick Barry

Blades, I'll give you this: you certainly are incorrigible.

Dixon

As I said at
August 8th, 2010 6:26pm
"Ay...you forgot the main component of the war on the West: lefties from among us.

Wait... one or two of them should be along here shortly to speak up for their future masters."

See what I said to have been true at August 9th, 11.38!

AY

Dixon - "lefties from among us".

Somehow the word, and a phenomenon itself just don't look convincing.

Do they really exist in tangible numbers, all these sincere readers of Guardian, admirers of Chavez's social justice, lovers of Cuban healthcare system, and North Korean revolutionary discipline?

It looks like lefti sloganeering is only used by the real revolutionaries "among us", as cover. The overall idea is to plant chaos, sense of lawlwessness, insecurity, and cultivate ignorance, cowardice, irresponsibility and corruption among ruling elite. Weakened, undermined society worshipping all types of stupid myths, not taking care about heritage, not knowing truth and not knowing who the enemy is, is easier to conquer and control.

I suspect good part of "lefti" commenters here and in other blogs, are Islamic propagandists in disguise, who are just trying to represent minds of exemplary dhimmis, as they see it.

Dixon

Ay, much as I agree with your general orientation I dont think your last claim adds up. We can see that Jon Snow, Alan Rusbridger and others of their breed are not themselves Islamic incomers only masquerading as members of our community. They are themselves a product of our community.

Look at televised demos in support of Islamism and against our society's interests. They are mostly attended by members of the community they attack.

Ive known many who one could call "lefties from among us" . In fact, the most anti-Islamist among us are in my experience themselves from immigrant descent.

True, all sorts of people commenting on blogs misrepresent their identity, the most suspect being when they make up cliche English sounding names or even describe themselves as "A Patriot". But to elevate this to the status of a vast conspiracy of outsiders masquerading as locals merely risks validating the ridicule that the lefties among us generally fall back upon when they have no arguments.

Drakken

Thank God our Congress has stopped all aid to Lebanon. Finially they are starting to wake up to the fact that arming these folks is a bad idea.

AY

Dixon - when it's about representative audience.. I would rather trust Star Wars than BBC TV shows.

Augustus

According to IDF intelligence released a month ago, Hezbollah has, in the four years since the Second Lebanon War, turned over 100 villages in South Lebanon into military bases. They released maps and 3D clips
showing exactly how Hezbollah stores its weapons, which are expressly located near schools,
hospitals, and residential buildings, not only in one or two villages, but using the same tactic all across southern Lebanon, essentially using the residents, pupils, and patients
as human shields. During the Second Lebanon War they had stored their weapons in open areas which enabled the IDF to locate and destroy their arsenals, but now they have essentially institutionalized the tactic of using human shields on a large scale. Because of security reasons UNIFIL troops don't enter those villages thus enabling Hezbollah
to continue unhindered. The latest estimate is an arsenal of about 50,000 rockets. As for the Lebanese Army (LAF), they have been infiltrated to a large extent by Hezbollah, and now do nothing without their permission, and the unit which ambushed the IDF consists mainly of Shiites with close ties to Hezbollah. In the event that Israel is drawn into a full-scale war with Hezbollah, it could very easily escalate into a showdown with Iran and Syria as well, and that could have potentially devastating worldwide consequences.

AY

Augustus: "..showdown with Iran and Syria.. could have potentially devastating worldwide consequences.."

How is that, taking out long-range capabilities of Iran, Hezbolla and Syria, and "devastating worldwide consequences"? Rather, should be opposite.

Augustus

AY - As you yourself have said above, this 'industry of hate' is paid for by Iran. So that puts Israel in something of a dilemma. On the one hand they need to keep up their defence against the Islamic coalition which sees them as a perpetual enemy, but on the other hand, their politics is aimed at an international coalition to keep Iran from developing nuclear arms. If Isael had to fight Iran and Syria alone (because they came to Hezbollahs aid), the catastrophic consequences, both for Israel and the wider world could be devastating. That's because of the unpredictability of the ME.

Glappa

Isnt it the case that the 'rules of engagement' for UNIFIL are tha they areallowed to intercept arms coming into Lebanon at the border, but once in, they cant question the provenance of any hardware found or seen openly in Lebanon

Kepha

Ms. Phillips, as an American, I fear that you are right.

DG

The Assistant Secretary of the State Department is completely wrong: "...we do have interests on both sides of the border. We are committed to Israel’s security, but we’re also committed to Lebanese sovereignty. These interests are not mutual exclusive. They’re not in contradiction."

What extraordinary nonsense! Lebanon's chief threat to sovereignty is that it has TWO armies commanded by two DIFFERENT men.