A government spokesman said Monday afternoon that IDF ground forces had briefly entered southern Lebanon to target Hizbullah bases along the border in order to push the terrorist group out of rocket-firing range. Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz declared that the IDF currently had much better alternatives than to launch a major ground incursion into Lebanon.
And the much better alternatives are – continuing to target the same runway in Beirut over and over again?
Speaking of rumors – this one is a whopper. A group calling itself the Lebanese Foundation for Peace is claiming that they have intelligence which suggests that the two kidnapped Israeli soldiers are being held in the Iranian embassy in Beirut.
A perusal of the website implies that it is a Christian Lebanese group whose sympathies lie with the former president Bashir Gemayel which places the group’s political ethos as a pro-Christian, anti-Syrian/Hezbollah party.
It would certainly be a most audacious move for the Iranians, but oddly enough, my initial instinct thinks not. As tied to Iran as Hezbollah is, I cannot see Hezbollah freely giving up autonomy over the prisoners. Nor do I think that Iran wants to run the risk of having their hands caught well-muddied on this one, but it would make a very dark twist. I suspect the idea of publishing this rumor is to generate enough noise so Israel will carry this group's own freight. I may be moderately sympatico but I am also a big believer of carrying one's own load.
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