Stingray: Breaking: Hezbollah to transfer 2 kidnapped Israeli soldiers to Iran

July 13, 2006

Breaking: Hezbollah to transfer 2 kidnapped Israeli soldiers to Iran

by Michael McCullough at 10:39 AM

A big hat tip to Wizbang on this one. According to various news sources, including FOX News and the Associated Press, Israeli Foreign Minister Mark Regev announced that Israel has information that Hezbollah is trying to take the two kidnapped soldiers to Iran. If this is true, expect the following to happen:

Syria will become a target for the Israeli war juggernaut. Syria and Iran both back Hezbollah (though Syria hedges its bets by also supporting a competing faction of Hezbollah) and Syria has not fully complied with UN orders to completely move its troops out of Lebanon. The United States will back, if only tacitly, Israel’s attack on Syria because Syria is a strong supporter of terrorism. Not only that, but Syria is training terrorists and allowing them to freely enter Iraq through the Syria-Iraq border. By attacking Syria and decapitating terrorist operations there, the destabilizing force of Syria throughout the entire region — including Iraq — will be stopped.
Iran will also be targeted by Israel. Don’t forget that Hezbollah was established by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards who came to Lebanon in 1982 during the last war Lebanese war with Israel. The odds are good that Israel will take this opportunity to knock out Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities. The world will condemn this action but the world comdemns every action Israel takes anyway, so they have nothing to lose. The US and Iraq will allow, perhaps “accidentally,” Israeli warplanes and missiles to attack Iran while preventing Iranian warplanes from entering Iraqi and Jordanian airspace.
Israel will put Gaza out of business. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry building has already been taken out — look for one or two buildings housing the Gaza “government” to be destroyed every day.
What now looks like a drawn-out war may well turn out to be a fairly short war as Israel will probably decide to mercilessly pound the enemy into a pulp instead of allowing things to drag out they did in the last major fight with Lebanon back in 1982. By minimizing the length of the war, Israel will prevent a “peace movement” from forming either in Israel or the US. The Islamofascists are masters of media manipulation and the western media are willing partners in disseminating their lies (see Mere Rhetoric’s excellent article on how the Washington Post interprets compromise to really mean Israeli surrender).

While I was writing, this news has been confirmed by the Associated Press, CNSNews, and others.

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