Sunday war briefs

Say, Michael Totten, is this Hezbollahland or a Christian town? The IDF found a mortar and 100 bombs in a civilian area in southern Lebanon. Shocked, shocked, I am. Well, no, not really.

IDF forces revealed a 120 mm mortar, prepped for launch, in a tour of the village of Mahbib, which is in the eastern zone of southern Lebanon. The IDF reports that some 100 mortar bombs were found. (Efrat Weiss)

The Syrian sock-puppets speak: Lebanon has rejected outright the cease-fire agreement.

Lebanon’s parliament speaker, who represents the Shiite Islamic militant group in negotiations, said the draft resolution was unacceptable since it would leave Israeli troops in Lebanon and does not deal with Beirut’s key demands a release of prisoners held by Israel and moves to resolve a dispute over a piece of border territory.

Good. Ehud, send in 50,000 soldiers. Clear out the rat’s nest. Stop these baby steps and unleash the IDF. Show some balls, old man. Ask yourself: What would Arik do?

Reuters photoshops the war: Charles Johnson caught Reuters with its pants down, and exposed a fake photo that has been photoshopped to make the damage in Beirut look worse. And the best thing about it? It happens to have been done by the photographer who many are accusing of having staged the Qana photos. Can you say, “Anti-Israel media bias”? I knew you could.

How damning is the evidence? Reuters has pulled the photo and suspended the photographer. Take a bow, Charles & Co. (Watch for the Kos Kidz to spin this one hard, and look stupid trying.)

Olmert to EU: STFU, you hypocrites: Ehud Olmert told a German newspaper that the Europeans killed a hell of a lot more people in Kosovo than the IDF has in Lebanon.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told European leaders to stop preaching to him about civilian war casualties in an interview published on Sunday in German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.

“Where do they get the right to preach to Israel?” Olmert said when asked about criticism from European capitals of Israeli military operations that have led to a heavy civilian toll.

“European countries attacked Kosovo and killed 10,000 civilians. Ten thousand! And none of these countries had to suffer before that from a single rocket.

“I’m not saying it was wrong to intervene in Kosovo. But please: Don’t preach to us about the treatment of civilians.”

Right. Now send in more ground forces, Ehud. Take out the damned rocket launchers.

Good thing it isn’t the US Army that has him: The IDF caught one of the mofos that kidnapped the Israeli soldiers three weeks ago.

IDF Intelligence Chief Major General Amos Yadlin has revealed that the IDF has captured one of the Hizbullah terrorists who kidnapped two IDF soldiers.

“In one of the operations in Lebanon the kidnapper was captured. He has been taken for interrogation,” Yadlin told government ministers.

He also had a report on Hezbullah’s fearless leader—the one who hides in bunkers and disguises himself in civilian clothing to travel around unrecognized, yet says he’s ready for martyrdom.

“Nasrallah has turned into a figure that hides in a bunker. His evaluations of how Israel responds, how it prepares, how steady its home
front command is, how long the clash will last – all of these parameters have been significantly struck. Hizbullah today is a lot less deterring,” he said.

I shall raise a celebratory glass of wine on the day that your Chipmunk Cheeks are peeking out of the Hezbullah flag and your corpse is about to be lowered into a grave. May it be soon.

And that is all I can take for now. Stress levels are high. Repeat: Stress levels are high. But not nearly as high as our friends in Israel. Now would be a good time to donate to Magen David Adom, or any other Israeli charity if you can afford it.

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