I don't remember ever hearing this from an Arab miltant host country before

[slamlander]

Found in this report are these wonderful words;

Lebanon's defence minister Elias Murr has said anyone violating the United Nations-brokered ceasefire will be considered a traitor [my emphasis] and be dealt with decisively.
He said any rocket fired from Lebanese territory would be considered collaboration with Israel to provide a pretext for it to

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The problem is that they don't speak in one voice.

[real_skeptic]

One day a minister says something pragmatic, the next day, another minister says something pro-Hizballah. The coalition there is not the most stable thing in the world.

Re: The problem is that they don't speak in one voice.

[slamlander]

But the important thing is that one of them actually said it. To my recollection, that has never happened before. Of course, 53 year old grey cells sometimes recollect wrong. :(

[krikkert]

But it is treason. You are collaborating with an obviously hostile foreign power in order to incite unwanted war.

[slamlander]

That wasn't my quibble. It's the implied accusation of willful collaboration on Israel's part that I find bothersome. But, it is a minmal bother. I'm sure that Israel is not collaborating with Hizbollah, only reacting to their actions.

Hey!

[real_skeptic]

We're not obviously hostile to Lebanon. We're obviously hostile to the Hizballah, and anybody else who threatens us. As far as the government of Lebanon is concerned - especially now that it's not pro-Syrian - we'd love to have a peace agreement with them just as we did with the Egyptians and the Jordanians.