An honor guard stand to attention …
These are members of Hamas brandishing (I think) AK-47’s. Wouldn’t the more appropriate term be “armed terrorists?”
picture depicting the four Iranian diplomats who were kidnapped in Lebanon in 1982 …
More likely they were intelligence officers tasked with coordinating Shi’ite militias at the time.
But this does make me wonder: If the Iranians are claiming that they were kidnapped by Christian and transferred to Israel, is this an implicit admission that the Iranians are/were holding Ron Arad. According to some rumors after he bailed out of his plane he was captured and eventually transferred to Iran.
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
Arutz Sheva has an article that they murdered him 20 years ago.
http://www.web-view.net/Show/0X3C022BD9065E03714A3A3E10A9015156BA2505BCBC5FC9530A2BFDDBE467C819.htm#126731
1. Israel Receives Hizbullah Report: Ron Arad Died 20 Years Ago
by Hillel Fendel
Ofer Dekel, Israel’s negotiator for the release of captives, has returned to Israel with a Hizbullah report stating that Arad died two years after he was captured.
The Hizbullah terrorist organization, based in southern Lebanon, prepared the report on its investigation of Ron Arad’s disappearance, as part of its obligations in the recently approved “humanitarian agreement” with Israel.
The agreeement stipulates that Israel will release murderous terrorist Samir Kuntar and four other terrorists, as well as the remains of dozens of Lebanese infiltrators and others, and will provide information on four missing Iranian diplomats, and will provide maps of mines in southern Lebanon. In exchange, Hizbullah is to free captured IDF soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser – assumed by Israeli intelligence to be dead – and provide a detailed report on Ron Arad.
It is this report that Dekel received on Thursday from German mediators, and has now given to Israeli government officials for their review.
No, it’s a casus belli. They’re going to use it to accuse Israel of war crimes.
Just watch.