Israel invades Lebanon after new capturing of soldiers

[Edan]

Interesting development:

In a significant move, the Syrian ambassador to London, in an interview with the BBC, called on Hizbullah to stop firing missiles at Israel.

"Syria is not interested in joining the battle," the ambassador said. He also asked Hizbullah to come to an arrangement that would include exchanging prisoners.

Saudi Arabia, the Arab world's political heavyweight and economic powerhouse, also caught international attention by accusing Hizbullah guerrillas - without naming them - of "uncalculated adventures" that could precipitate a new Middle East crisis.

A Saudi official quoted by the state Saudi Press Agency said the Lebanese Hizbullah's brazen capture of two Israeli soldiers was not legitimate.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150885995383&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

[Datajack Franit]

Israel has the right to defend itself

[Lawrence of Arabia]

aah, so now the israeli soldiers were captured and not kidnapped . . .

[SlowwHand]

MRT, sounds like your ass is grass and Ming is the lawn mower. My humble opinion would be that you check your damn mail box,

[Arrian]

"Syria is not interested in joining the battle," the ambassador said.

Indeed. They like it when they can sit back and use their proxies instead.

-Arrian

[Ming]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
MRT, sounds like your ass is grass and Ming is the lawn mower. My humble opinion would be that you check your damn mail box,

All taken care of... PLEASE stay on topic and discuss the topic and not the posters

[Datajack Franit]

Ming is a moderator, not a poster

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by Edan
Interesting development:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...cle%2FShowFull

Interesting,indeed.
They seem unwilling to either wage war against 1-2 nuclear powers (israel and probably the usa as well) or lose their face because they didn´t assist their allies.
Wouldn´t have expected such a move by SA and syria.

[Tuberski]

Actually they are leaving a Pro-US government to their own devices.

ACK!

[Thedrin]

Deleted.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Why wouldn't you have expected such a move from Saudi Arabia? Sunnis generally don't like Shi'ite rebels. Especially when it means screwing up Lebanon again for no gain. The Saudis are smart enough to realize this is an attempt by Hezbollah to weaken the Lebanese government and get Syria back in.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Datajack Franit
Ming is a moderator, not a poster

EXCELLENT point.

[Blaupanzer]

The Saudis seem to have little to gain backing Iranian-backed troublemakers. The Syrians are plain out of courage. Meanwhile Lebanon is really being wrecked. Not good. Expect the Israelis to to go through Southern Lebanon after the rocketeers any minute now.

[Sandman]

One would think that a prosperous, Syria-free Lebanon would be a good, valuable thing for Israel, and that they might think for oh, one second, before blowing the country's infrastructure to bits. But no.

[muxec]

Originally posted by Sandman
One would think that a prosperous, Syria-free Lebanon would be a good, valuable thing for Israel, and that they might think for oh, one second, before blowing the country's infrastructure to bits. But no.

OK, Lebanon will invite foreign specialists to rebuild the country.