UNIFIL: Radicals in Lebanon refugee camps fired Friday's rockets

This IS the only country where a foreign power(SYRIA) demands to pick cabinet posts whilst in opposition. The silliest part is that people think it as normal. In Australia you would be told where to go, and with what, where the sun dont shine.

so if you are upset with the politics inside you country , you fire rockets to outside of country. No wonder nothing gets done in Lebanon,are they all like this??

something you just engaged in without realizing it. Israel and the US have a history as deep as the pacific trench in facilitating and sponsoring terror in Lebanon and other Mid East states for that matter. [never heard of the Lavon affair have you?]. In Lebanon they sponsored the fascists in the 80's. Yeh fascists are ok just so long as thet are on your side. They piled into Lebanon and helped in the destruction of that nation whilst trying to install a pro Israel Gov. All in order to avoid making any kind of peace with the then PLO. In 2006 Israel once again chose to wreck Lebanon, in response to a border raid. One of the biggest terrorist outrages in the Lebanon was the 1985 car bomb ordered by Casey [CIA head] under Reagan with the assistance of the Saudi Prince Bandar. Over 80 people killed in Beirut, their target was missed.So yes, terrorists always have their excuses handy. What are yours?

much as you may like to prevent Israel from returning fire.

your commentts that compare the defence of innocent civilians to those of the actions of those Jews in the Warsaw ghetto in WW2 PROVES that your denial of the Jew to defend himself like any other civilian living in a member state of the phony UN. pals have been kept in camps by the Arab world as this is thei only tactic at the Pals unfortunate suffering that binds them together & keeps them from inner religious wars. what would the re-action of France to 2 missiles a day from lets say Holland? what was the Bay of Pigs about wihout the launching of a rocket? Israel is the homeland of the Jews & the Jewish nation after thr Romans,Greeks, Crusaders,Ottomans, Turks & British & all the wars started from 1947 & prior to that by all our Arab neighbours.We are here until the end of the world & if true peace was theintent of the Moslem world it would have been attained long before Arafat. there has never been a Pal Parliment ever nor a Pal President as in Trans Jordan the British screwed up.

Lebanon despite your attempts to absolve and therefore make them immune from retaliation.

Lebanon now has its own version of the "Birthers" Super-Jews strike again. The poor helpless Lebanese. Not only must their "resistance" fighters attempt to stop Israel from attacking Lebanon, now, they have to stop Israel from attacking Israel. Because hey, there's no better way to start a war than by shooting one's self in the foot. But when one is dealing with the 'double-secret' Israelis, one can't even know how they managed to get their hands on these weapons. Of course, the fact that the only one's beating the drums for conflict emanate from the hidden Hizballah basement where Nassrallah resides. So much easier though, to blame Israel for being on the receiving end of their own rocket fire. Tune in next week when the claim is that it was Israel, not HAMAS, firing the rockets into Sderot so that Israel could start Cast Lead.

Joe, your analogy to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising is incorrect. The Jews fought to die fighting because anyway they were being sent to be gased and cremated by the Germans in their Fernichtungs Lagger The Pals in lebanon are living the life of riley, being fed and sheltered by UNWRA.

funny, i thought they were there to do just that, or are they there for s pot of bird watching?.

i'll bet it's lebanon, israel will look at "defeating" hezbolla to "send" a message to iran, irans reply will be "come on, come and get some", no matter what israel does, iran will still stick the finger up at israel, but i know israel will get it's butt kicked by hezbollah regardless of the pounding hezbollah and the lebanese will get. god save the lebanese and pals.

...obviously you live in some bizzaro world. Well yes, I suppose the no rule of law bubble that Israel lives in is bizzaro world. There was no war crime here. Just like Israel never commits war crimes, like the War on Gaza, there obviously cannot be any war crimes committed against Israel. Maybe when Israel becomes a country that adheres to the rule of law you could have a case.

pushing for "Eretz Yisrael" from the Nile to the Euphrates... land and water. Just too bad if it belongs to somebody else, eh Tomy?

I think Nasrallah has warned that Israel will start a war this fall or next spring. And from the posters on this site, we see how easily manipulated the Israeli public is, and how easily Netanyahu will gather the Israeli masses into a cry for war. Lebanon has not rebuilt, because smart people in Lebanon KNOW that Israel will attack again. Hopefully, the Lebanese Army and Hezbollah are working together in an attempt to stop the Israeli Air Force with antiaircraft weapons, hopefully resulting in the sparing of both Lebanese and Israeli lives.

Israel should take the guys that shot the rockets, and the other 400,000 Palestinian refugees, that don't belong in Lebanon in the first place. Then Israel could go ahead, give them housing, a place to live, and stop blaming Lebanon for a situation that is the total responsibility of Israel. And go ahead and put the 4 guys on trial that fired the rockets. Let them explain how angry they are to have had no home their whole lives, and let a jury, made up of both Jews and Muslims, ALL ISRAELIS (including the Palestinian ones) judge them fairly. Lebanon doesn't want Israel's unwanted citizens. Israel can take them back, and stop complaining about Lebanon. Once the Palestinians are back in Israel, those issues go away.

reasons to terrorize . As for previous Israeli actions in Lebanon , those were always a response to the same old well ingrained Arab terror . The blame game , not taking any responsibility , is an other useless weapon in their and your arsenal .

in refugee camps act just like those in the Warsaw Ghetto, circa WW2 . They fight against opression and occupation , dispossession and anihilation/despair ......

Actually UNIFIL is responsible for security on the Israeli Lebanese border. As Hezbollah withdrew behind the Litani River as per 1701.

Many of the Palestinians in the camps may very well be against the rocketing of the Jewish State,BUT the Hezbollah killers and their Iranians suppliers are very happy to oblige those who support their aims:the destruction of Israel. Lebanon,as host of these camps,has the responsibility to police them,BUT Hezbollah is now part of the Lebanese government.As a result,Lebanese reluctance to maintain a peaceful border after withdrawal of Israel from southern Lebanon and after the '06 summer war expresses a lack of responsibility towards supporting 1701 and evidence of cooperation with the Hezbollah killers.If the IDF has to go into Lebanon again,it will complete the job it did not finish in '06.

No doubt there must be a lot of Lebanese people who have suffered, and lost loved ones because of Israel's previous aggressive occupation of Lebanon. Their hurt and anger may be driving them to "return fire" on the aggressor.

Your government is responsible for the security of the border,end of story.

we have to act responsibly and not escalate.if there is loss of life then that would be another matter entirely.

If Lebanon can't control - I am not sure it wishes to do so - various criminal elements inside its country, it shouldn't then be surprised that Israel in a form of self-defence attacks Lebanon itself and all that is in it.

The only radicals in Lebanon are those that are funded by a large pro-American and by extension a pro-Israel Muslim state intent on stirring the pot to create political fallout on Hizbullah. The Palestinians in the camps are the last one that would want to see any major internal conflict erupting within Lebanon as they would be among the first casualties. With so many Lebanese agents working for Israel these days, one does not have to think very far which party would benefit most by the idiotic launching of these 2 rockets. One of these days, the little games that Israel plays are going to blow up in its face.

If i were in charge, the airports, seaports and major bridges would be rubble by now. -vik very wise vik, this is what those people who send these rockets want you to do, strong fellow.

Any intent to kill and terrorize civilians is a war crime. Period. (with emphasis on INTENT). It does not have to kill anyone. If someone tries to kill you but fails, he will still go to jail on attempted murder (Unless he is from Hezbanon or Libya, where freed terrorists are celebrated). Stop your BS. Look at your demented view of events. It is the HEZBANESE who shot at us, and you blame us. Not a single criticism of the joke of a country to the north. Unbelievable.

Israel should stop the charade practiced by the UN and its members, as if some radicals fire and Lebanon has nothing to do with it. It does not matter which organization fires these rockets. Lebanon is the sovereign body that should control its territory. It cannot, on one hand, harbor and support all these terror organizations, and on the other hand, claim innocence. If they make their bed, they should be held accountable and sleep on it. Maybe Israel should create an organization called Israeli Liberation Organization and let it bomb Lebanon. If someone complains, the UN will simply declare that it is not Israel, but some radicals who are responsible. I am sure that will fly.

How many were arrested and put on trial in Leb for launching the prior rockets at israeli from Leb soil? Can you say ZERO. You cannot fire rockets and then say dont shoot us back. Everyone in Leb is responsible for the rocket attack unless they publically denounce those that fired the rockets and actively go after them. If i were in charge, the airports, seaports and major bridges would be rubble by now.

Israeli blood may be cheap to you but those days are long past in the real world. You people do not like RETURN fire do you? How dare you have the arrogance to say how Israel may or may not respond.? Get over yourself.!!

Rockets fired from Lebanon; Rockets fired from Gaza. And your response is always the same...'Oh, so what. They were just puny little rockets that didn't hurt anyone. Just ignore them'. Palestinians throwing rocks and bottles at IDF...No big deal. Just look the other way. What a disingenuous idiot you really are. And before your spew that crap about the occupation being to blame for everying in and out of Israel, you may want to endeavor to lend some shred of credibility to your arguments by explaining why Israel was being continuously attacked BEFORE the occupation. You can't do that, can ya, Chief wingnut?

If I stopped in front of BBS's trailer in rural Charlotte, and fired four rounds, only 0.3" diameter, hardly an existential threat, through his trailer, and he survived, and fired back an entire clip of 24 rounds from his AK47, would I be justified in thinking he was over-reacting by firing 6 times as many? I guess there is a need to establish ground rules on mental health.

Everybody has his own rocket out there! Who is in charge of Lebanon?Factions,armed groups,government without power...are we talking about Lebanon or Somalia ???

...the two shells fired were 4 3/4" wide projectiles, hardly an existential threat. And then there's the fact that even Israel has decided that yes, it was some faction out of the camps. In fact it's a good thing that no one was injured in Israel's 6-1 response. Killing civilians has gotten Israel into enough hot water already. Get over yourself.

Handed over to Israel? Let's get real, its not going to happen. However, what should happen is that they should be arrested and put on trial in Lebanon. I do believe that would be the fate of Israelies who on their own decided to attack Pals, Jordanians, Lebanese or Syrians. Nations with integrity, even if they have very substantial disagreements with other nations, cannot have citizens engaged in potentially deadly attacks on the citizens of other nations.

Those rockets were meant to kill israelis. Those who launched the rockets must be arrested and handed over to israel for trial. This MUST NOT be the end of the issue. Will it really take a dead jew before the Lebs are taught a major lesson??