Hezbollah says it will hit Israel ships in new war

[Alamuti Lotus]

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100525/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_lebanon_israel

BEIRUT – The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah group warned Tuesday that his fighters would attack Israeli ships in the Mediterranean if the Jewish state imposes a sea blockade on Lebanon in any future war.

Hassan Nasrallah said his Iranian-backed group is now capable of destroying any military or commercial ships heading to Israeli ports.

Hezbollah and Israel fought a 34-day war in 2006 during which Israel imposed a sea and air embargo on Lebanon, saying it needed to prevent the guerrillas from being resupplied with weapons.

Nasrallah said Tuesday that Hezbollah now had the capability to inflict as much harm on Israel as it did in Lebanon during the 2006 war.

"In any future war, if you blockade our coasts and ports, all the military, civil and commercial ships heading to ports in occupied Palestine along the Mediterranean will come under Hezbollah rocket attack," Nasrallah said.

Addressing supporters through a video link at a huge rally south of Beirut, Nasrallah repeated past threats that his group would rocket Tel Aviv airport and other strategic targets if Israel's military strikes Lebanese infrastructure as it did in 2006.

[Ozymanithrax]

1. Conflict Expansion: Make the war bigger...n/t

[Alamuti Lotus]

2. Less one-sided, perhaps *nt

[Ozymanithrax]

3. Well, warships that blockaded will now be open to using missiles and guns to shell positions.

It is not less one sided, it makes it bigger and more people will die, which suits both sides.

[Alamuti Lotus]

4. That was pretty much the case before, too

The only difference now is that those ships, should they elect to participate in aforementioned shelling, may be introducing themselves to Davy Jones and his locker.

[shira]

5. This is where you voice your concern about Iran/Syria via Hezbollah...

...making life more miserable for the people of Lebanon.

I guess to some, Iran's radical influence WRT Hezbollah and Hamas is a positive development for the good people of Gaza and Lebanon.

:shrug:

[proteus_lives]

6. Well, aren't you gleeful.

Can't wait to shake the Hezbollah pom-poms, huh?

:puke:

[Alamuti Lotus]

7. If it would make you happy, sure

I have composed a cheer for this special occasion: rah-rah sis-boom-bah, labayk ya Nasrallah!


...wow, that actually has a good internal rhyme scheme and everything. That took about 1/2 calorie of effort and it is really, sheer brilliance.

[proteus_lives]

8. Pathetic.

How the hatred of Israel leads to the support of terrorist groups.

[Alamuti Lotus]

9. Sad.

Sigh, no appreciation for fine artistic achievement...

That aside, I am in a feisty mood tonight and wish to pursue the matter further -- why do you believe my thoughts on the subject stem primarily from a "hatred of Israel"? That seems rather narcisstic to assume that your tribe is the center of my little solar system, from which alone my thoughts on such a matter may revolve around..

[ProgressiveProfessor]

10. The C802 that hit an Israeli gunship is why all the shore radars were bombed

Without them there could be no targeting information passed to the missile launchers. Should the balloon go up again, the radars will now be hit in the first wave. Some missiles will still get launched but there PK will be greatly diminished.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INS_Hanit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-802

Note that there is some controversy if the weapon that hit the Hanit and the Egyptian freighter was a C802 or the Iranian Kowsar