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WEB EXCLUSIVE: A Third Lebanon War Could Be Much Worse than the Second

Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah recently announced that he could hit any and every place in Israel with long-range missiles. That would mean that, unlike in 2006, Hezbollah could strike not only the northern cities of Kiryat Shmona and Haifa but also Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion International Airport, and the Dimona nuclear-power plant.

I dismissed his claim as a wild boast last week, but Israeli army commander Major General Gabi Ashkenazi confirmed it this week. So while we’ve all been worried about Iran’s nuclear-weapons program, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been quietly arming his chief terrorist proxy with more advanced conventional weapons.

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3 Responses to “WEB EXCLUSIVE: A Third Lebanon War Could Be Much Worse than the Second”

  1. soccer dad says:

    FWIW, The NYT did a story on this trend 6 months ago.

  2. Biff P. says:

    And guess what kids, “old attitudes are changing among Poles. Younger people are less likely to spout the blood-libel beliefs of an older generation.”

    I think I’m going to puke.

  3. Yehudit says:

    Everyone loves Jews when they’re dead.

  4. Shmuel BenYosef says:

    Not only Poland. The old Jewish section of Prague is a thriving tourist area.

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