Libanesisk journalist Michael Béhé skriver (franaskta originalet, artikeln i helhet på engelska, gratis registrering krävs):

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Lebanon a victim? What a joke!

Before the Israeli attack, Lebanon no longer existed, it was no more than a hologram. In Beirut, innocent citizens like me were forbidden access to certain areas of their own capital. But our police, our army, and our judges were also excluded. That was the case, for example, of Hezbollah's and the Syrians' command zone in the Haret Hreik quarter (in red on the satellite map). A square measuring a kilometer wide, a capital within the capital, permanently guarded by a Horla army, possessing its own institutions, its schools, its crèches, its tribunals, its radio, its television and, above all ... its government. A "government" that, alone decided, in the place of the figureheads of the Lebanese government--in which Hezbollah also had its ministers!--to attack a neighboring state, with which we had no substantial or grounded quarrel, and to plunge the United States into a bloody conflict. And if attacking a sovereign nation on its territory, assassinating eight of its soldiers, kidnapping two others and, simultaneously, launching missiles on nine of its towns does not constitute a casus belli, the latter juridical principle will seriously need revising.

Thus almost all of these cowardly politicians, including numerous Shia leaders and religious personalities themselves, are blessing each bomb that falls from a Jewish F-16 turning the insult to our sovereignty that was Haret Hreik, right in the heart of Beirut, into a lunar landscape. Without the Israelis, how could we have received another chance--that we in no way deserve!--to rebuild our country?

Each Irano-Syrian fort that Jerusalem destroys, each Islamic fighter they eliminate, and Lebanon proportionally starts to live again! Once again, the soldiers of Israel are doing our work. Once again, like in 1982, we are watching--cowardly, lying low, despicable, and insulting them to boot--their heroic sacrifice that allows us to keep hoping. To not be swallowed up in the bowels of the earth. Because, of course, by dint of not giving a damn for southern Lebanon, of letting foreigners take hold of the privileges that belong to us, we no longer had the ability to recover our independence and sovereignty. If, at the end of this war, the Lebanese army retakes control over its territory and gets rid of the state within a state--that tried to suffocate the latter--it will only be thanks to the Tsahal [Israeli Defense Force], and that, all these faint-hearted politicians, from the crook Fuad Siniora, to Saad Hariri, the son of Lebanon's plunderer, and general Aoun, all know perfectly well.

As for the destruction caused by the Israelis ... that is another imposture: Look at the satellite map! I have situated, as best I could, but in their correct proportions, the parts of my capital that have been destroyed by Israel. They are Haret Hreik--in its totality--and the dwellings of Hezbollah's leaders, situated in the large Shia suburb of Dayaa (as they spell it) and that I have circled in blue.

In addition to these two zones, Tsahal has exploded a nine-storied building that housed Hezbollah's command, in Beirut's city center, above and slightly to the left (to the north west) of Haret Hreik on the map. Image courtesy Metula News AgencyIt was Nasrallah's "perch" inside the city, whereby he asserted his presence and domination over us. A depot of Syrian arms in the port, two army radars that the Shiite officers had put at Hezbollah's disposal, and a truck suspected of transporting arms, in the Christian quarter of Ashrafieh.

Moreover the road and airport infrastructures were put out of working order : they served to provide Hezbollah with arms and munitions. Apart from that, Tsahal has neither hit nor deteriorated anything, and all those who speak of the "destruction of Beirut" are either liars, Iranians, anti-Semites or absent. Even the houses situated one alley's distance from the targets I mentioned have not been hit, they have not even suffered a scratch; on contemplating these results of this workyou understand the meaning of the concept "surgical strikes" and you can admire the dexterity of the Jewish pilots. Beirut, all the rest of Beirut, 95 percent of Beirut, lives and breathes better than a fortnight ago. All those who have not sided with terrorism know they have strictly nothing to fear from the Israeli planes, on the contrary! One example: Last night the restaurant where I went to eat was jammed full and I had to wait until 9:30 p.m. to get a table. Everyone was smiling, relaxed, but no one filmed them: a strange destruction of Beirut, is it not?
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Irans president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gav idag oavsiktligt en övertygande förklaring av varför Israel inte ska stoppa striderna i Libanon utan att ruinera eller åtminstone kraftigt försvaga Hizbollahs militär infrastruktur. Ahmadinejad sa:

Även om det riktiga botemedlet är att eliminera den sionistiska regimen, så bör en omedelbar vapenvila genomdrivas i det här skedet.

Hizbollahs husse sa alltså att judeutrotningen består som det långsiktiga målet, men Iran och Hizbollah är inte starka nog för att utföra den i det här skedet.

Tankesättet är vanlig blad islamister och har även teologisk förklaring som kallas för al-Hudaybiyah.

Även Hizbollahs ledar Hassan Nasrallah inte döljer sina avsikter:

”Om alla judar samlar sig i Israel, skulle det bespara oss problemet med att jaga efter dem i hela världen”,

sa han till den libanesiska tidningen Daily Star den 22 oktober 2002.

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Reuters berättar att 400 demonstranter protesterar i Kairo mot Israels svar på Hizbollah aggression.

400 människor! I arabisk huvudstad på 12 miljoner! Paradoxalt att israeliska vänsterextremister samlade igår 500 i Tel Aviv.

Tydligen, har araberna ingen som helst entusiasm för den iranska ombudsaggressionen.

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Om man kan lita på den här kartan från The Times, Hizbollahs högkvarter ligger här och Hizbollahs TV-station al-Manar ligger här.

Det var känt även förut att Hizbollah placerar sina infrastrukturbyggnader mitt i tätbefolkade områden. På de satellitbilderna syns det alldeles tydligt.

Israeliske befälhavaren Udi Adam meddelar idag att även att Hizbollahs missiler avfyras från tätbefolkade områden och det gör det svårt att föra direkt eld mot Hizbollahs positioner.

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