Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Just tell me, what Arab country is not celebrating a Hezbollah victory?

I can never clearly remember if the sayings goes, “truth” is the first causality of war or is it innocence? No matter really because it’s so close in the wash that it might as well go down as a draw. Ynet reports Iranians took to the streets to celebrate Hezbollah’s victories:
Already Monday night thousands of Iranians took to the streets in celebration of what they defined as a Shiite and Hizbullah victory over the Zionist regime. In the streets of Iran , believers took advantage of the evening prayers to praise the Lebanese nation on Hizbullah's victory.

In parades toward the mosques calling "Allah is great, Khamenei is the leader," "Lebanon won with Hizbullah's help," Lebanon is victorious, Israel is destroyed," and "Hizbullah finally won." The daily internet newspaper Rooz Online, run by exiled Iranians, added that the marchers waived flags of Hizbullah and handed out miniature flags to children.

Basij, the volunteer army of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, declared a holiday following the ceasefire declaration. According to reports, most of the signs across Tehran were dedicated to blessing Hizbullah's victory, and were covered in pictures of Hizbullah's leader, Hasan Nasrallah. Alongside the celebrations, senior religious figure Ahmad Khatamei announced Tuesday that "if the United States or Israel attack Iran, Iran will shoot rockets at Tel Aviv."
While I concede the Israelis have lost this battle it should be understood that the defeat was the direct result of a political leadership failure by the Israeli government, and not, because Hezbollah guerrillas were able to penetrate with either gun, tank or missile inside the Israeli centre of gravity.

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