Both Hizbullah and Syria are ready for War!
May 5, 2007
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a Syrian military border build-up and Hizbullah’s declaration it is ready for war, Israel has no plans to attack, but stands ready to ward off a surprise Syrian-Hizbullah strike.
I do not expect a strike by Syria without Hizbullah, as long as American troops are in Iraq on Syria’s eastern border. And I do not expect a pre-emptive attack by Israel as long as she is in such a political upheaval. So I hold to my guesstimate of a war beginning at some point in time before 2013, but after 2007 and whenever American troops withdraw from Iraq.
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‘Hizbullah is ready for another war against Israel’
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
May 5, 2007
“Hizbullah has rebuilt its itself and is prepared for another Israeli strike,” Naim Kassem, the deputy secretary general of the Iranian-backed terror organization told Al Jazeera TV on Saturday.
“We have completed the groundwork necessary and we have new battle plans,” Kassem added.
Kassem said that Hizbullah was not expecting another round of fighting against Israel but that the organization
was preparing itself nevertheless.
Kassem also denied that his organization paid off or received intelligence reports from former MK Azmi Bishara during the Second Lebanon War. He said that Israeli government was trying to divert attention from its own failures in the war, by placing blame on Bishara.
A high ranking Lebanese official said that Hizbullah has been rearming itself at an accelerated pace.
“All that Hizbullah had achieved in six years, since Israel withdrew from Southern Lebanon, it has now managed to gain in only six months,” the official was quoted by Army Radio as saying, adding that “Hizbullah renewed its rocket arsenal and built new concrete bunkers north of the Litany River and in the Eastern border of Lebanon.”
UN resolution 1701, passed at the end of fighting last August, called on Hizbullah to completely cease rearming.
IDF reserve soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, whose unconditional release was also demanded by resolution 1701, are still held by Hizbullah.
Sheera Claire Frenkel contributed to this report.
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DEBKAfile Report
May 3, 2007, 8:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
Reporting that this message had been relayed from Jerusalem to Damascus, Israeli Ambassador to US Salai Meridor said in Washington Wednesday night that Syria has amassed on Israel’s borders strength and missiles capable of reaching every part
of the country. On April 30, DEBKAfile reported exclusively that Bashar Assad had shifted units from the Iraqi to the Lebanese border shortly after the Winograd panel
had slammed the Olmert government for its mishandling of the Lebanon War. Our military sources specified that an infantry brigade had been relocated from the Iraqi border to beef up the Syrian 14th Commando Division deployed opposite Golan and the sensitive Mt. Hermon- Shabaa Farms sector where the Lebanese, Syrian and Israeli borders converge. A source in Israel’s northern command says the stationing of an infantry brigade on the forward line with Israel stiffens Syrian defenses and frees up Syrian command units for operational duties.
A careful watch is trained on these movements to ascertain whether Assad is engaging in mere muscle flexing, or trying to capitalize on the Israeli government’s weakness for a military move on the Golan Heights.
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