Thread: Declaration of War!

Hezbollah (s?) has just formally declared war on Israel. Just saw it on the news.

Good! It's time for Israel to what it should have done years ago...annihalate those who want to annihilate them.

D.W.

Hezbollah ready for 'open war' with Israel
Rockets fly into Israel as it pounds Lebanon
Friday, July 14, 2006; Posted: 2:26 p.m. EDT (18:26 GMT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said his group is ready for "open war" with Israel on Friday, as attacks continued from both sides in the deepening crisis.
"We are ready for it -- war, war on every level," said Nasrallah, soon after Israel's military reportedly hit his home and destroyed Hezbollah's headquarters in southern Beirut.
Earlier Israeli rescue services said a large barrage of rockets smashed into northern Israel, on the third day of violence since Hezbollah militants killed three Israeli soldiers and captured two others in northern Israel.
The continued rocket attacks -- including one that authorities said killed a woman and her grandchild Friday -- prompted Israel's Cabinet to approve extended military operations in Lebanon, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said. (Watch Israeli fires, rubble, wounded from rocket attacks -- 2:0
Dozens of people in Lebanon have been killed since the violence began and more than 100 have been hurt in Israel and in Lebanon.
On Thursday, two missiles fired from Lebanon hit the center of Haifa, Israel's third-largest city -- extending beyond the range of any missiles fired at Israel from Lebanon in the past.
Israeli ambassador to the U.N. Dan Gillerman said many missiles that have been fired from Lebanon toward the northern Israel were made in Iran.
"Many of the long-range missiles fired into Israel in the recent days were Iranian missiles made by the same regime that is now trying to possess nuclear weapons," Gillerman said at the U.N. on Friday.
When asked by CNN what role Syria or Iran may have played in the current crisis, Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said it would be "strange" for Hezbollah to have "done this alone."
However, Hezbollah guerrillas denied firing the two rockets, which had a range longer than previous missiles fired at Israel from Lebanon.
Israelis have been told to stay away from vulnerable areas but the government did not order them into bomb shelters.

Appeal to Bush
Siniora called the crisis a "controlled war," and described it as an opportunity for the region to address the Israeli-Palestinian problem that has existed since 1948, when Israel was created. (Watch Lebanon's prime minister describe the crisis -- 5:00)
Israeli forces Friday hit Lebanese highways and renewed attacks on Beirut's international airport, crippling a runway.
Israeli aircraft also carried out more airstrikes on a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut and an airstrike on Hezbollah's radio station, Reuters reported, wounding at least one person. The radio station, al-Nour, remained on the air, the news agency said.
Siniora called on President Bush and other world leaders to press Israel to halt the attacks.
White House spokesman Tony Snow said Friday that Bush declined Siniora's request, adding: "The president is not going to make military decisions for Israel," Reuters reported.
Bush "believes the Israelis have the right to protect themselves and that in doing that they should limit as much as possible so-called collateral damage not only to facilities but also to human lives", Snow said, according to Reuters.
Olmert said Israel would not halt its offensive until Hezbollah was disarmed, AP reported. He made the comment in a telephone conversation with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Israeli government officials said.
Rockets on Friday hit the town of Yesod Hamaalah, the army and Israeli rescue services said.
Police reported that Katyusha rockets were hitting towns in northern Israel -- five rockets hit Nahariya, five struck Safed, two hit Hatzor and four hit Pqui'in. Also, the IDF reported a barrage of Katyusha rockets had hit Kiryat Shmona.
Attacks on northern Israel have killed at least four people and more than 100 have been wounded, officials say.
Israel launched the military operation against Hezbollah after the group's militants killed three Israeli soldiers and kidnapped two others from northern Israel on Wednesday. Five more Israeli soldiers have been killed since.
Since the fighting began, Israeli attacks on what it sees as Hezbollah targets in Lebanon have killed at least 63 Lebanese people, including two soldiers, and wounded 167 others, Lebanon's internal security forces told CNN on Friday.
Diplomatic efforts to calm the crisis resumed at the United Nations Security Council in New York, at the convening of an "urgent meeting."
Before Friday's bombing of Beirut airport, the United States helped broker an unusual deal that allowed a runway at the Beirut airport to be repaired long enough to allow a private aircraft carrying former Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Nakati and five planes from Middle East Airlines to take off.
Israel's navy continued its blockade of Lebanese ports, including Tripoli, Sidon and Tyre.
Overnight, IDF warplanes attacked 18 targets in Lebanon, including the headquarters for the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in east Lebanon.
Israeli planes also attacked Hezbollah headquarters in southern Beirut overnight, according to IDF. Bridges and roads leading to the offices were destroyed in the operation.
Along the Israel-Lebanon border, IDF attacked two Hezbollah outposts, a weapons storage facility used by militants and three fuel stations south of Sidon.
Despite several countries -- including the United States and Lebanon -- contending that Lebanon doesn't have the capacity to extend its authority into Hezbollah-held territory, Israel has blamed the Lebanese government for the violence and charged it with the safe release of the soldiers.
Hezbollah, which enjoys substantial backing from Syria and Iran, is considered a terrorist organization by the United States and Israel. The group holds 23 of the 128 seats in Lebanon's parliament.
Israel is also continuing military operations in Gaza, where militant broke an Egyptian border fence on Friday. (Full story)
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Good!

Ineveitable, but not good for us.

UPDATE:
Israel just gave Syria an ultimatum.

2 days to stop Hezbollah and return soldiers or the war will continue and Syria could be targeted.

Ugh, very not good. Not good at all.