Nadene Goldfoot
Hezbollah is not a part of Lebanon's government. They are supported by Iran and Syria. After 1982 when Israel had to go into Lebanon to stop the PLO who were stationed there and had been blasting Northern Israel with rockets, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards stepped in and took these Shi'a Islamic militants that wanted to fight and trained them. Hezbollah has pretty much taken over Lebanon, however.
In 2006, Hezbollah shot 4,000 rockets into Israel when they had a war that lasted for a month. They had the range of 45 miles. More than 24 cities were hit. 900 rockets landed in urban areas. 43 Israeli citizens were killed and 2,015 were injured. Haifa suffered from 54 rockets that hit causing 16 deaths. Karmiel, which is settled mainly by American Jews, suffered from 176 rockets. Kiryat Shmona, the city I drove to from Safed because they had a department store that reminded me of Meir & Frank, was hit by over 1,000 rockets.They were close to the border. My city of Safed (Tzfat), which is on top of a mountain, was hit by 471 rockets and Nitzan Rubin died from it. July 13: Nitzan Rubin, 33, died from wounds sustained during the Hezbollah rocket attack. Tiberias, which is below the mountain, was hit with 81 rockets. The UN brought out a peacekeeping force, but it is thought that Hezbollah had stockpiled more, possibly 28,000 rockets since then.
By 2008 they were shooting Iranian rockets with the range of 185 miles, which would be able to hit Dimona. This has all been done with the backing of Iran. By "early March, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reported Israeli claims that Hezbollah's arsenal includes 10,000 long-range rockets and 20,000 short-range rockets in southern Lebanon." At the same time, Hamas from Gaza was raining down rockets and by 2008 had killed 13 Israelis that way. Hamas even then had strong ties with Iran.
The Lebanese army has been working against Hezbollah. On December 11, 2011 a rocket was shot only 6 miles from the border towards Israel but hit a Lebanese home in Hula and injured the woman inside. The next year on November 20, 2012, "A Lebanese army patrol discovered two ready-to-launch 107mm Grad rockets between the villages of Halta and Mari, about 2 miles from the Israeli border. The forces defused the rockets. IDF official Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai said Palestinian factions in Lebanon were probably behind the plot." It's figured they were Hezbollahs being they were in Lebanon. The next day "Two rockets fired from Lebanon at Israel landed within Lebanon, according to Beirut officials." The terrorists didn't give up. The very next day "The Lebanese army disarmed an additional rocket aimed at Israel, in Marjayoun, again, about 6 miles or 10 kilometers from the border."
Last July, 5 Israeli tourists were killed in a bus that was bombed in Burgas, Bulgaria, a Black Sea resort. It was Hezbollah who were the terrorists. They had a suicide bomber planted on that bus. The bus driver was also killed in the explosion.
Tel Aviv was threatened by Lebanon's Shiek Hassan Nasrallah in 2012's battle with Gaza after a cease fire was declared. Hezbollah had fired a Fajr-5 rocket then, and the threat is of thousands of them landing on Tel Aviv. He was speaking to a crowd of thousands "attending an annual Shiite commemoration of the 7th-century death of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson." Lebanon is populated by half Sunni and half Shi'a Muslims.. Hezbollah also threatens to invade Israel's Galilee since they sit on the border. This would be the cities of Haifa, Acre, Safed, Tiberias and Nazareth while at other times have threatened cities from Kiryat Shimona to Eilat, which is the whole length of Israel. The message is that if Israel hits Iran's site where they are making uranium for atomic weaponry, Hezbollah will hit Israel with about 60,000 missiles and rockets and can now reach the whole country.
Israel has repeatedly asked countries to brand Hezbollah a terror organization. The US and Canada have agreed. The European Union has not and they have taken no action to do so. Evidently it takes more for the Europeans to learn about the true character of Hezbollah.
Israel is not going to attack Hezbollah for the Bulgarian bus attack of last summer. "When Israel acts, it is in order to prevent a security threat, to prevent a concrete attack. It is not in order to punish," said Boaz Ganor, Israel's counter-terrorism expert.
Resource: Oregonian newspaper, 2/6/13, page A5, report blames Hezbollah for bombing.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-03-27-israel-hezbollah_N.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/israel-seen-unlikely-to-respond-militarily-after-bulgaria-implicates-hezbollah-in-attack/2013/02/05/0d7bce2e-6fd6-11e2-b3f3-b263d708ca37_story.html
http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.2905175/k.B69E/Background_Israeli_Cities_Affected_by_Rocket_Attacks.htm
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/11/25/thousands-of-rockets-will-fall-on-tel-aviv-hezbollah-issues-chilling-warning-to-israel/
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/10/02/hezbollah-threatens-to-invade-israel%e2%80%99s-galilee-and-offers-interactive-infographic-on-how-it-plans-to-do-it/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah
Hezbollah is not a part of Lebanon's government. They are supported by Iran and Syria. After 1982 when Israel had to go into Lebanon to stop the PLO who were stationed there and had been blasting Northern Israel with rockets, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards stepped in and took these Shi'a Islamic militants that wanted to fight and trained them. Hezbollah has pretty much taken over Lebanon, however.
In 2006, Hezbollah shot 4,000 rockets into Israel when they had a war that lasted for a month. They had the range of 45 miles. More than 24 cities were hit. 900 rockets landed in urban areas. 43 Israeli citizens were killed and 2,015 were injured. Haifa suffered from 54 rockets that hit causing 16 deaths. Karmiel, which is settled mainly by American Jews, suffered from 176 rockets. Kiryat Shmona, the city I drove to from Safed because they had a department store that reminded me of Meir & Frank, was hit by over 1,000 rockets.They were close to the border. My city of Safed (Tzfat), which is on top of a mountain, was hit by 471 rockets and Nitzan Rubin died from it. July 13: Nitzan Rubin, 33, died from wounds sustained during the Hezbollah rocket attack. Tiberias, which is below the mountain, was hit with 81 rockets. The UN brought out a peacekeeping force, but it is thought that Hezbollah had stockpiled more, possibly 28,000 rockets since then.
By 2008 they were shooting Iranian rockets with the range of 185 miles, which would be able to hit Dimona. This has all been done with the backing of Iran. By "early March, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reported Israeli claims that Hezbollah's arsenal includes 10,000 long-range rockets and 20,000 short-range rockets in southern Lebanon." At the same time, Hamas from Gaza was raining down rockets and by 2008 had killed 13 Israelis that way. Hamas even then had strong ties with Iran.
The Lebanese army has been working against Hezbollah. On December 11, 2011 a rocket was shot only 6 miles from the border towards Israel but hit a Lebanese home in Hula and injured the woman inside. The next year on November 20, 2012, "A Lebanese army patrol discovered two ready-to-launch 107mm Grad rockets between the villages of Halta and Mari, about 2 miles from the Israeli border. The forces defused the rockets. IDF official Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai said Palestinian factions in Lebanon were probably behind the plot." It's figured they were Hezbollahs being they were in Lebanon. The next day "Two rockets fired from Lebanon at Israel landed within Lebanon, according to Beirut officials." The terrorists didn't give up. The very next day "The Lebanese army disarmed an additional rocket aimed at Israel, in Marjayoun, again, about 6 miles or 10 kilometers from the border."
Last July, 5 Israeli tourists were killed in a bus that was bombed in Burgas, Bulgaria, a Black Sea resort. It was Hezbollah who were the terrorists. They had a suicide bomber planted on that bus. The bus driver was also killed in the explosion.
Tel Aviv was threatened by Lebanon's Shiek Hassan Nasrallah in 2012's battle with Gaza after a cease fire was declared. Hezbollah had fired a Fajr-5 rocket then, and the threat is of thousands of them landing on Tel Aviv. He was speaking to a crowd of thousands "attending an annual Shiite commemoration of the 7th-century death of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson." Lebanon is populated by half Sunni and half Shi'a Muslims.. Hezbollah also threatens to invade Israel's Galilee since they sit on the border. This would be the cities of Haifa, Acre, Safed, Tiberias and Nazareth while at other times have threatened cities from Kiryat Shimona to Eilat, which is the whole length of Israel. The message is that if Israel hits Iran's site where they are making uranium for atomic weaponry, Hezbollah will hit Israel with about 60,000 missiles and rockets and can now reach the whole country.
Israel has repeatedly asked countries to brand Hezbollah a terror organization. The US and Canada have agreed. The European Union has not and they have taken no action to do so. Evidently it takes more for the Europeans to learn about the true character of Hezbollah.
Israel is not going to attack Hezbollah for the Bulgarian bus attack of last summer. "When Israel acts, it is in order to prevent a security threat, to prevent a concrete attack. It is not in order to punish," said Boaz Ganor, Israel's counter-terrorism expert.
Resource: Oregonian newspaper, 2/6/13, page A5, report blames Hezbollah for bombing.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-03-27-israel-hezbollah_N.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/israel-seen-unlikely-to-respond-militarily-after-bulgaria-implicates-hezbollah-in-attack/2013/02/05/0d7bce2e-6fd6-11e2-b3f3-b263d708ca37_story.html
http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.2905175/k.B69E/Background_Israeli_Cities_Affected_by_Rocket_Attacks.htm
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/11/25/thousands-of-rockets-will-fall-on-tel-aviv-hezbollah-issues-chilling-warning-to-israel/
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/10/02/hezbollah-threatens-to-invade-israel%e2%80%99s-galilee-and-offers-interactive-infographic-on-how-it-plans-to-do-it/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah
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