The Israelis were using a crane on their side of the border with Lebanon to remove a tree in order to improve the line of sight and thus prevent Hezbollah terrorists from hiding in the undergrowth and carrying out attacks or kidnapping. The routine work had been cleared in advance with UNIFIL. The Israelis did not cross the Lebanese border. This was confirmed at an early stage by UNIFIL.Ha’aretz also reported the Lebanese confirming they had fired first: The Lebanese Army was first to open fire in the recent fatal border clash with Israel Defense Forces soldiers, a Lebanese source told the Lebanese ... the perpetrators, apparently members of the group known as Global Jihad, intended to hit Aqaba no less than Eilat. They consider the Hashemite kingdom to be as legitimate a target as Israel, if not more so. ... Sinai was and still is a hotbed for Global Jihad. Weapons are being smuggled from Sinai into Gaza, includingWednesday, 4th August 2010
Here we go again...
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Yesterday, an Israeli reserve battalion commander, three Lebanese soldiers and one Lebanese journalist were killed when Lebanese forces opened fire on IDF soldiers performing routine maintenance work by the security fence near the border.
...Tuesday, 3rd August 2010
'Israel is the cause of Islamic terror'... oh wait...
1:40pm
Those who persist in the delusion that the Middle East conflict is a fight over ‘Palestine’ between Israel and the ‘Palestinians’ should look at what happened last weekend, when terrorists fired Grad missiles from Egyptian territory not merely at Eilat, Israel’s tourist resort but also at Aqaba, Jordan’s tourist resort, where one Jordanian was killed and three others injured. This is not the first time Aqaba has been targeted along with Eilat: exactly the same thing happened last April. Ha’aretz reports:
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Friday, 6 August 2010
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