Hezbollah vows to continue amassing 'arms of resistance'

What armed resistance group would dare face a modern army and all its F-16s, Apache gunships, Predator drones, 88-milimeter howitzers, and Merkava tanks? Hezbollah has successfully done it twice now, and (more ominously) each time it has radically altered its asymetric tactics to more effectively engage the IDF in stunningly creative ways. Clearly, it's a testament to Hezbollah's perceived effectiveness that Israel continues to hesitate about attacking tiny Lebanon, whose national army could no doubt be rapidly brushed aside. The problem is ... once that's done you face determined patriots with the will (and now the means) to fight. Better for the IDF to leave Hezbollah alone and continue to do the gloriosly heroic things they now do best, such as shooting Gazan protestors across the fence, and bombing 'suspected' tunnels from 5,000 feet in the air, and kicking down doors in Ramullah late at night. It's far safer then what it would encounter in the dark mountains of Lebano

I don't understand why i NEVER read that Israel STILL occupies part of Lebanon ? I then conclude it is something Israelis and pro-Israelis aren't aware of... Why isn't Israel giving back the Shebaa farms and Ghajar, so that the so called Resistance has no reasons to exist anymore, and so that peace is done with Lebanon ??!!! (Maybe because Israel need the water there..) Lebanon has always been a modern/western backed country but each day occupied and each strike by Israel make the moderate flee to EU, UAE and USA, and other pple join Hezbollah's cause.

I find it very hard to argue the position of what I consider a right-wing religious lunacy. Yet without Israel Hizbollah would never have existed. It's claim to fame and power in Lebanon is the expulsion of Israel from it's occupation in Southern Lebanon, and it's resistance to Israel in the Second Lebanon War when Israel sought to savage the entire nation of Lebanon. Israel made Hisbollah, it made Hisbollah into the savior of Lebanon and Israel now is offended by Hisbollah repeating what Israel has taught it is the route to success. The USA, at Israel's orders, keeps the Lebanese Armed forces too feeble to defend the nation. Hisbollah has proven it can liberate occupied Lebanese territory. It has proven it can defend Lebanon. Hisbollah has struck back at Israel when Israel destroyed innocent people and infrastructure across Lebanon. When will Israel stop helping Hisbollah become the dominant power in Lebanon? One more idiotic war might achieve that end.

I'll bet that the IDF already has hundreds of Syrian targets in mind when ( not if) Hezbollah uses these weapons against Israel. What was seen in Lebanon after the last action against Hezbollah is but a shade of what Syria will experience. ASSad needs to dig a really , really deep hole to hide in. This is going to be an intense war and Israel is going to throw everything but nukes at Lebanon and Syria. Israel will have total air superiority in a few days and even the birds will fear flying in Lebanon and Syria !

Good point. Is it my imagination or has Israel's belligerent bellowing waned over the last little while.

Of course, Israel getting its arms from the US wouldn't 'undermine stability in the region', would it? What hypocrisy!

who wears the pants in Lebanon.

assuming Saudi Arabia doesn't activate the S 400 which is able to take out anything flying over Israel. Or that Syria hasn't supplied the hand held anti aircraft missile that Barak has stated is a game changer. I do not think the IAF will have total control of the skies as previously.

All that happened with 1701 is that Hezbollah couldnt have weapons south of the Litani. They are not in breach of 1701 idf for instance they put Scuds north of beruit aimed at Tel Aviv the capital of Israel. But hey it is all in the wording hezbollah are not in breach of 1701, you just dn't like the idea that if israel attacks Lebanon there will be a cost. Welcome to the real world.

Doesn't Assad realize that Israel will hold Syria accountable for facilitating the supply of Syrian and Iranian rockets to Hezbollah? When Hezbollah eventually uses them against Israel both Lebanon and Syria will pay the ultimate price as their countries will be completely destroyed.

Hizbollah didn't "start the last war". Lebanon has never made a peace agreement with Israel. Israel was engaged in regular overflights of Lebanon. This is an act of aggression. Hizbollah attacked an IDF post. Israel escalated the confrontation by attacking civilian targets including the Beruit airport early the next morning. Hizbollah responded to this with rocket fire. Look up the rest if you are interested. it seems that you are short of facts.

hezbollah needs all the missiles it can gather in order to meet and deter a terrorist threat--Israeli state terrorism. What Israel inflicted on the Palestinians in 2002, 2006, and 2008/9 and on Lebanon in 2006, and clearly intends to inflict again, is state terrorism, pure and simple. When will Israel and its followers stop the self-righteous posturing? It's patently transparent and, almost as bad, tedious.

"One thing you can say in favor of their position: the more expensive to Israel they make another Israeli assault on them, the less likely it is to happen." [Potobac] First of all, Potobac, you may want to learn the difference between an assertion and an "observation". Secondly, for someone who submits more than 30 "observations" per day, you don't seem to be very observant, do you? If you were, you'd know that Hezbollah started the last war, not Israel. Perhaps you should start titling all of your postings "Obfuscation" rather than "Observation". At least THAT would more accurately describe the usual drivel which follows.

Israel must stop these terrorist.

Hezbollah is part of the problem and the solution. Will their "masters" let them join the civilised world or will they face a "very bad day" sometime in the future?

Interesting how no one seems to have noticed that Hizbullah's stockpiling of weapons is in direct contravention to Security Council Resolution 1701. Not that UNIFIL or the UN cares much what Hizbullah or the supposedly sovereign government of Lebanon do or don't do.

You have forgotten very conveniently that the last time Hezbollah were the first to attack.

You have a rather distorted view of what happened in Lebanon It was HEZBOLLAH THAT STARTED THE LAST WAR, therefore the war was initiated by Lebanon, not Israel A good portion of Lebanon was destroyed in the last war, this time, if Hezbollah should be foolish enough to start antoher war, that part of Lebanon that remained standing will be reduced to rubble I know why you're egging them on, you're not there, last I heard you were in the USA

So deliberately firing rockets to murder Israeli Jewish and Christian men, women, children, and the elderly is what these Shiite monsters call weapons of "resistance?" Israeli and the US should teach Hizbollah, the Syrians and Iranians a lesson- the world would thank them!

Is there world blind and deaf? Is anyone asking WHY Hizbollah needs to acquire "weapons of resistance" when the supposedly sovereign state of Lebanon should be the one procuring weapons in order to defend itself? If there were ANY doubts as to who is running Lebanon, I think we now know- Syria/Iran!

One thing you can say in favor of their position: the more expensive to Israel they make another Israeli assault on them, the less likely it is to happen.

Peace? It looks like an aggression,an attack on sovereign country to me.