ISRAEL - IRAN - SYRIA - HAMAS - HEZBOLLAH - WWWIII?

Fox, I think Set will bring that up the rest of your life.

Hez pretty quickly began launching their rockets. Lebanon sat back and did nothing while Hez accumulated and placed thousands of rockets.

Already answered, Setanta. Did you lose the coupon for that remedial reading school we recommended?

The massive military action was the direct result of Hezbollah launching thousands of Syrian/Iranian furnished rockets into Israeli civilian neighborhoods.

The latest reports are that Hezbollah launched up to 4000 rockets in all from mid July to the cease fire. I did not say that they were all launched prior to Israel's counter attack on Lebanon. But the rockets did start hitting Israel before Israel initiated air strikes and continued right up to the cease fire.

But some really don't want to acknowledge that rockets were even a factor in the war.

blatham - your education in current affairs is somewhat lacking. Please acquaint yourself with the politically-incorrect no-nonsense realities which lie behind what the West's predominantly leftwing media has strived to conceal by omission with regard to the Lebanon situation.

http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/printer_13676.shtml

it is directed at you only if you are among the 'some'. And you can say til the cows come home that I said Hezbollah fired 4000 rockets before Israel attacked, and you won't be able to to prove it, because I didn't.

The massive military action was the direct result of Hezbollah launching thousands of Syrian/Iranian furnished rockets into Israeli civilian neighborhoods.

Hey, here are some things the IDF did before even the cabinet authorized what it called a "severe" response on the very same day:


- IDF responds to the attacks from Lebanon with heavy artillery and tank fire. Al-Manar television reports that IDF artillery was pounding the fringes of the villages of Aita el-Shaab, Ramieh and Yaroun in the hills east of the coastal border port of Naqoura.

- Israel Air Force jets strike roads, bridges and Hezbollah guerrilla positions in southern Lebanon. Two Lebanese civilians are killed and a Lebanese soldier is wounded in the IAF air strike.

- Israeli troops cross the border to search for the missing soldiers, marking the first incursion into Lebanon since the withdrawal in May 2000.


That is what Ha'aretz reported. If you don't trust them, go on the internet and look for the information, from what you believe is the most credible source, and see if the above information is correct.

Now, I've posted before what Hezbollah did that day. However, it can hardly be said that Israel didn't follow an aggressive course right from the very first moment. Now go and tell me how many rockets had been fired by Hezbollah by that time? Hm? Any information, or just uninformed opinions?

I would specifically like to know why heavy artillery and tank fire, air force strikes and an army crossing a border does not constitute "massive military action".

I have read a different sequence that Haaratz and others have reported on who did what when however.

1) Lebanon kidnaps the soldiers.
2) Israel enters Lebanon to rescue their soldiers resulting in casualties on both sides.
3) Hezbollah starts firing rockets
4) Israel responds with air strikes
5) Hezbollah keeps firing rockets
6) Israel steadily steps up the air strikes
etc.

OE and Setanta (who is back on ignore until he can be civil and/or at least read the responses and links already provided), I will refer you to NUMEROUS responses to your answers and NUMEROUS links already provided.

Just say you want to believe your source and you won't accept any of mine and we'll get along fine.

I have posted Haaretz sources that provide a different order (and impression) than the one OE posted. So take your pick, but don't just say the others don't exist.