"Israel-Lebanon border clash stokes tension; 5 dead in worst fighting there since 2006" by Isabel Kershner and Nada Bakri, New York Times | August 4, 2010
Related:
"Isabel Kershner.... is an Israeli citizen.... possible family ties to the Israeli military""
I just wanted you to know who was delivering this report to you, dear readers.
No wonder they are written and read like an Israeli military press release.
JERUSALEM — Israeli and Lebanese army troops exchanged lethal fire on their countries’ border yesterday, in what was the fiercest clash in the area since Israel’s monthlong war against the Lebanese Hezbollah militia in the summer of 2006.
Gee, what a coincidence!
Israel's minister was just over hear warning about that very thing.
Lebanon said at least four Lebanese were killed, while Israel reported that a battalion commander was killed and a platoon commander was critically wounded.
Each side blamed the other, trading accusations of violating the UN Security Council resolution that underpins the four-year-old cease-fire.
A senior US official in Washington said that, based on what had been learned so far, the Lebanese military appeared to have been responsible for starting the gunfire.
Translation: It's what the Israelis told him/her.
A Lebanese army spokesman said the skirmish started after Israeli soldiers crossed into Lebanese territory to cut down a tree. “We fired in the air, and they responded by firing artillery shells,’’ he said, speaking on departmental conditions of anonymity.
The Israeli military said its soldiers were fired on inside Israeli territory, just west of the village of Misgav Am. Israel said that its forces were doing routine maintenance work in a gap between the Blue Line, the internationally recognized border between Israel and Lebanon, and its security fence, and that it had coordinated in advance with the UN peacekeeping force in South Lebanon, UNIFIL.
Israel said it believed that the Lebanese attack had been planned. Before gunfire broke out, Lebanese soldiers shouted at the Israeli troops to move back, Israeli military officials said, and the Israelis shouted that they were in Israeli territory.
Lieutenant Colonel Avital Leibovich, an Israeli military spokeswoman, said that Lebanese army snipers opened fire and that they “targeted our commanders,’’ who were observing the maintenance work.
The Israeli military said its forces returned fire with light arms and used artillery fire. Several minutes later, the military said in a statement, an Israeli Air Force helicopter fired at the Lebanese Army Forces Battalion Command Center in Al Taybeh, damaging several armored combat vehicles.
After the first Israeli response, Leibovich said, the Israelis were asked to hold their fire so that the Lebanese could evacuate their wounded. She said that Israel acquiesced, but that 30 minutes later, a rocket-propelled grenade was fired toward an Israeli tank.
The Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak, said in a statement: “Israel desires peace, and proved that when it withdrew its forces in 2000 to the international border. But Israel will absolutely not tolerate attacks on its soldiers or its civilians in its sovereign territory.’’
Prime Minister Saad Hariri of Lebanon “denounced the Israeli violations of the Lebanese sovereignty’’ in a statement, and urged “the UNIFIL, the UN, and the international community to assume their responsibilities and put pressure on Israel to put an end to its aggression and its violations.’’
Related:
“Every day we have Israeli warplanes entering Lebanese airspace"
And the U.N. sits there and does nothing while the AmeriKan jewsmedia cover it up.
Also see: Muslims Send Message to Israel
Apparently not getting it.
For Israel, the confrontation broke a relative calm on a third front in less than a week, after rocket fire from Gaza and a rocket attack in the south. The northern border with Lebanon, though tense, has been mostly quiet.
Israeli military officials have warned about the fragility of the calm and have pointed to what they say is a concerted weapons buildup by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
Senior Israeli military officials said yesterday that elements of the Lebanese army had been influenced by the Shi’ite, Iranian-backed Hezbollah.
“The provocation has been going on for a couple of months,’’ a senior military official told reporters, speaking on condition of anonymity under army rules. Lebanese troops have been pointing rifles at the Israelis and threatening to fire, he said, adding that some units were more aggressive than others. The Lebanese troops who fired yesterday came from the 11th Brigade, which has a Shi’ite commander, he said.Of course, when Israel actually lets the missiles and artillery fly that is fine.
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Did I mention that web version piece was DIFFERENT from what was in my PRINTED PAPER?
"Lebanon, Israel clash near border; at least 4 dead" by Bassem Mroue and Zeina Karam, Associated Press Writer | August 3, 2010
Israeli soldiers use a crane as they appear to cut a tree on the Lebanese side of the border fence, near the southern village of Adaisseh, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Lebanese and Israeli troops exchanged fire on the border in the most serious clashes since a fierce war four years ago, authorities said. A Lebanese officer spoke on condition of anonymity under military guidelines, said the clash occurred as Israeli troops tried to remove a tree from the Lebanese side of the border. According to an Israeli military spokesman the tree was in Israeli territory, despite being on the Lebanese side of the fence, because the fence does not match the border in all places. (AP Photo/Ronith Daher)
Yeah, I thought that was KIND of IMPORTANT!!
Related: THE TWO ISRAELI SOLDIERS WERE CAPTURED IN LEBANON
Yup, USrael and here MSM mouthpieces LIE to YOU, American!
ADEISSEH, Lebanon --Lebanese and Israeli troops exchanged fire Tuesday in a fierce border battle that killed a senior Israeli officer, two Lebanese soldiers and a journalist -- underlining how easily tensions can re-ignite along the frontier where Israel and Hezbollah fought a war four years ago.
Gee, the NYT did NOT REPORT a JOURNALIST being KILLED!
What a PoS paper!!!
It was the worst fighting since 2006 in the area, where Israeli and Lebanese soldiers patrol within shouting distance of each other, separated by the U.N.-drawn Blue Line boundary.
The fighting flared into Israeli tank, helicopter and artillery strikes near this Lebanese town, but ended after several hours and there was no sign that either side was preparing to escalate.
What do you think Israel just did, AP?
And where is the world criticism?
The Shiite guerrilla force Hezbollah said it offered to help the Lebanese army but in the end did not get involved. "We told our brothers, control yourselves and don't do anything," Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah in a televised speech.
Translation: Do not take the Israeli bait.
But, he warned, his fighters would intervene if Israeli troops ever attack Lebanese forces again. "Any Israeli arm extended against the Lebanese military will be cut off by the resistance," said Nasrallah, whose arsenal is far more powerful than the Lebanese army's.
Related: Lebanon Issues Last Warning to Israel
Tuesday's violence stoked fears that have been brewing for months on both sides that a new conflict could come soon.
Yeah, EVERYONE in the WORLD knows what is coming except Americans who are ill-served by their s*** press.
The U.N. Security Council urged "utmost restraint." U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said, "The last thing that we want to see is this incident expand into something more significant." Both the U.S. and the U.N. said they were working to determine the exact circumstances of the fight.
PFFFFFFT!
Tuesday's clashes began after an Israeli soldier tried to remove a tree along the border, something the military has done in the past to improve its sightlines into Lebanon.
But both sides claimed the tree was in their territory. An Associated Press photo shows an Israeli standing on a crane reaching over the fence that Israel erected to separate the two countries. The fence, however, does not match the Blue Line in all places, and the Israeli military said in a statement that the tree was in Israeli territory.
Un-flipping-believable!!!
It is THEIR FENCE they crossed over and they have the chutzpah to claim it was on their side. Just when you think the Israelis can't sink any lower with their lies they drop down another couple notches.
Related: Was the tree really on Israeli territory? Not quite
Incredible!!
"It was over the fence but still within Israeli territory," the military spokesman's office said. He said the tree cutting was coordinated with the U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon, UNIFIL.
The Lebanese military said the Israelis crossed onto Lebanese soil despite calls from the U.N. and Lebanon to stop. When the Israelis persisted, Lebanese troops opened fire with small arms and rocket-propelled grenades, it said in a statement.
The Israeli forces responded with "machine guns and tank shells, targeting Lebanese army positions and civilian homes in the area," the Lebanese military said. It said two soldiers were killed and a third seriously wounded.
Ronith Daher, 32, a Lebanese journalist who was at the scene, said she saw a UNIFIL peacekeeper ask Israel not to allow the Israeli soldier to cross the fence and warned them the Lebanese troops would open fire. A number of journalists had gathered at the site after getting word UNIFIL was trying to resolve the situation.
Israel, however, accused Lebanon of provoking the fight....
the Israeli military said....
In Adeisseh, a border village home to several thousand people, rubble was strewn in the streets, the door of a shop was blown out, and the balcony of a home had been hit with a shell.
A Lebanese journalist with the daily Al-Akhbar newspaper, Assaf Abu Rahhal, was killed when an Israeli shell landed next to him in Adeisseh, a security official said, speaking on condition of anonymity under military guidelines. Three civilians were wounded, including Adeisseh's mayor, said Ali Rahal, 44, a local businessman.
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman urged the military to "confront any Israeli aggression whatever the sacrifices."
That seems to be the ONLY WAY this world is going to FIND PEACE!
No censorship games the next day.
"UN affirms Israeli account of Lebanon border skirmish; Dispute over tree led to exchange of deadly gunfire" by Isabel Kershner, New York Times | August 5, 2010
JERUSALEM — The UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon said yesterday that it had concluded that Israeli forces were cutting trees that lay within their own territory before a lethal exchange of fire with Lebanese army troops, largely vindicating Israel’s account of how the fighting started.
Then the U.N. is ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS!!!
The U.N. is BACKING UP ISRAELI LIES when the WHOLE WORLD can SEE what happened and who is at fault.
I'll tell you right now forget any investigations of the Gaza flotilla massacre.
The U.N. is ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS and NOTHING BUT a ZIONIST TOOL and COVER!!!
The head of peacekeeping operations for the United Nations, Alain Le Roy, also said yesterday that UN peacekeepers had tried to prevent the clash.
Israel told the United Nations at around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday that it was planning to trim a tree on a narrow strip of land the Lebanese believe should be on their side of the border, Le Roy said.
You know, it was ISRAEL'S FENCE, so...
The United Nations then informed the Lebanese, who objected. Le Roy said that his troops began negotiating between the two sides, but that Israel had decided to go ahead after a few hours, leading to a clash at around 11:40 a.m.
“We asked for more time for both parties to agree,’’ Le Roy said.
And Israel, as usual, said no.
An Israeli commander, two Lebanese soldiers, and a Lebanese journalist were killed in the border skirmish, the worst clash in the area in four years. The border region was calm yesterday as Israel’s leaders appeared to try to cool the atmosphere, while also warning that Israel would always respond to attack.
After they raised the temperature?
What, they check their shoe and find shit on it?
Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, told Israel Radio that the Israeli response to what he called a provocation by the Lebanese army had been correct and measured, and said there was a need to ensure that a local episode did not turn into a crisis.
What an a**hole.
Israeli citizens and vacationers in northern Israel were told to carry on as normal, and that there was no need for special precautions. Israeli forces completed their task of pruning brush in the area of the confrontation without incident, according to an Israeli military spokeswoman....
Translation: Israel has decided to back off -- for now.
A senior American said that the Lebanese military appeared to have been responsible for starting the gunfire.
Because that is what Israelis told them.
Israeli military officials insisted that the attack on their forces was premeditated. They pointed to internal tensions in Lebanon and what they said was the growing influence of Hezbollah — the Shi’ite, Iranian-backed militia — on certain elements within the Lebanese army.
Yeah, except they have all joined together against another Israeli invasion and have been very pointed about getting the word out.
But hey, what is ONE MORE LIE form the AmeriKan MSM master?
The Pinnacle of Propaganda
How Israeli propaganda shaped U.S. media coverage of the flotilla attack
But Barak said yesterday that the episode had not been planned by the Lebanese general staff, and that Hezbollah was not a partner to it....
But the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, issued a stern warning to both the government of Lebanon and to the Islamic militant group Hamas, blaming the latter’s military wing for the recent rocket attacks on southern Israel from Gaza, and on the Israeli resort of Eilat and the Jordanian resort of Aqaba from the Egyptian Sinai....
Translation: The Gazans are in for another round of war-criminal attacks and assaults.
Ever notice that Israel seems addicted to Muslim blood?
Seems like they can hardly go two years without drawing some from somewhere.
And the U.N. is not the only one under Zionist thumb:
"Hamas fired rockets from Egypt, Cairo says" by Associated Press | August 5, 2010
CAIRO — The deadly rocket attacks on Israel and Jordan’s Red Sea ports were carried out by the militant Palestinian group Hamas operating from Egypt, an Egyptian official said yesterday after days of denials....
Look, we know Israel is pissed at you for opening the border to Gaza for a while, but WTF?
The attackers fired Soviet-style rockets of the type used by militants in Lebanon and Gaza, he added, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
Related: The Gaza Rocket Squads
Yeah, who is firing off those rockets again?
Hamas denied the Egyptian accusations and said it had no plans to start operating outside of the occupied territories.
One reason being, of course, they can't get out because of Israel.
“We don’t accept this accusation,’’ said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri. The matter, Abu Zuhri said, “was fabricated by the Zionist occupation in order to create an atmosphere of chaos in the region.’’
That is the way I see many things these days.
CUI BONO?
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Aqaba and Eilat are more than 190 miles from Hamas’s stronghold in the Gaza Strip.
Egypt’s official media indicated that Egypt will retaliate to Hamas attacks in “a powerful and a fierce’’ way. The state-run Al-Gomhouriar, which is close to the ruling party, ran a front page editorial headlined: “Hamas and its ingratitude.’’They must have closed the crossing.
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