Israel blasts Beirut airport for 2nd day
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Israeli warplanes punished the Lebanese capital on Friday, blasting the airport for a second day, knocking down a bridge, igniting fuel storage tanks and cutting the main highway to Syria. Hezbollah fired more rockets at Israeli towns across the border.
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Iran warns of ‘fierce response’ should Israel strike at Syria
“If the Zionist regime commits another stupid move and attacks Syria, this will be considered like attacking the whole Islamic world and this regime will receive a very fierce response,” Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying in a telephone conversation with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
US vetoes UN resolution urging end to Israeli attacks in Gaza
The United States vetoed a UN draft resolution that would have called for an end to Israeli attacks and “disproportionate use of force” in the Gaza Strip as well as for the release of a kidnapped Israeli soldier.
The Security Council resolution received 10 votes, one against from the United States with four abstentions, French Ambassador Jean-Marc de la Sabliere, the council president for July, announced.
Explaining his negative vote, US Ambassador John Bolton described the text as “unbalanced” and was “not only untimely but also outmoded” because of the attacks against Israel by Lebanese Hezbollah militants and UN chief Kofi Annan’s decision to send a crisis team to the region.
He said adoption of the resolution would have exacerbated tensions in the region and would have undermined “our vision of two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.”
Iran denies Israel fears that soldiers head to Iran
TEHRAN, July 13 (Reuters) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry denied on Thursday Israeli suggestions that Iranian-backed Hizbollah guerrillas could take two captured Israeli soldiers from Lebanon to Iran, saying Jerusalem was “talking absurdities”.
“I strongly deny such reports,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said. “Because of its desperation and increasing isolation in the world and because of the tension and crisis created inside Israel, it is now talking absurdities.”
Are we supposed to believe that this hasn’t been in the works for months, and that these ‘kidnappings’ aren’t as bogus as the Gulf Of Tonkin? Expect an attack on Iran any minute. People are comparing this to 1982, but the big difference is that in 1982 there weren’t 150,000 US troops in Iraq.