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Hezbollah leader: Winograd report declares defeat for Israel
May 2, 2007, 15:35 GMT
Beirut - The leader of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah said Wednesday that the report criticizing the Israeli handling of last summer's 33-day conflict in southern Lebanon clearly declared 'defeat' for the Jewish state.
'The report is a clear declaration of defeat for Israel,' Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said during an appearance in Beirut's southern suburbs.
'The report wrote the word failure more than 100 times,' the Hezbollah chief said.
Nasrallah described the failings of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's handling of the conflict as 'a victory for the Lebanese resistance (Hezbollah).'
The interim report of the Israeli commission, headed by former judge Eliyahu Winograd, 'settled the issue of victory and defeat between us and Israel,' Nasrallah said.
Released on Monday, the interim report held Olmert, Defence Minister Amir Peretz and former army chief Dan Halutz principally responsible for the mishandling of the 33-day Israel-Hezbollah war.
The report pointed to 'severe failures' of 'judgment, responsibility and prudence' on the part of Olmert.
The commission found that Olmert was too hasty in deciding to go to war, that he proceeded without a detailed military plan and that his goals were unrealistic.
Israel launched a large-scale offensive on July 12 after Hezbollah militants seized two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border attack in southern Lebanon.
Up to 1,200 Lebanese were killed, mostly civilians, in the ensuign conflict. Some 160 Israelis lost their lives, the majority of them soldiers.
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Bunch of racist war criminals running the politics and the institutions in Isreal, most of them would put Hitler and Nazis to shame.
Now the Turd gets to bask in his idiotic glee as he sits back and watches the irate posts roll in. Whatever gets you off turd man.
Will you please have the decency to not pretend to be , and have an English name while you spew your Radical Islamic, stinky left handed crap.
Tribal groups have almost gone completely extinct except for ignorant ,backward, primitive, savage groups that need to go the way of the Dodo bird.
If the Islamic people put half the effort in creating something useful to mankind as they do being animalistic and destructive ; the rest of the world would give them some respect.
How much longer will the good Muslims remain silent and let these animals corrupt their religion? Stand up , do good, and be the children of Abraham you were intended to be.
Don’t let 10% of your people destroy your way of life.
Hey Alan,
Nice Godwin. Maybe you Brits should clean up your own back yard before opening your precious little mouths. Your Empire was responsible for the enslavement of nations and the deaths of millions, so it's just possible that you've all lost the moral high ground.
'Nice Godwin. Maybe you Brits should clean up your own back yard before opening your precious little mouths. Your Empire was responsible for the enslavement of nations and the deaths of millions, so it's just possible that you've all lost the moral high ground. '
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He is not British, he is a Pali refugee pretending to be something he is not.
mfeldMay 2nd, 2007 - 17:30:12
Right. A democratic country vs an autocratic body of fanatics! A country willing to discuss its' failures vs.a blindly followed mullah who one dares call a failure! Yes, Hizbollah, what courage to kill and kidnap and create havoc not only for your enemy but for your own countrymen.
The aims of the war were justified but unfortunately the leaders did not think things thoroughly and in a democratic country, mostly one has to take responsibility.
--- Funny how u speak of a democratic country, as I believe the US is considered one but has yet taken responbility for Iraq and Afghanistan erros, ie Bush.
--- I believe it was Israel who destroyed Lebanon's infrastructure, airports, etc...not Nasrallah. Where were the combatants at the airports, catching a flight to Jamaica? Where were the combatants in the Christian minority areas that had been shelled?
--- Lebanon was in realative political calmness before this war. Ever hear of the Cedar Revolution?
Bunch of Idiots worshiping war criminals, I wonder when your heroes will be getting their call up at Hague.
@Aloud Turd, Gaza
'I wonder when your heroes will be getting their call up at Hague.'
LOL, a kangaroo court advocated by an islamist monkey.
Get your reality check
--- Funny how u speak of a democratic country, as I believe the US is considered one but has yet taken responbility for Iraq and Afghanistan erros, ie Bush.
'Read the newspapers, watch tele, listen to the radio the USA is publicly taking the Bush admin to task right or wrong on both Iraq and Afghanistan. Climb out of your cave, out from under the rock you live in.'
--- I believe it was Israel who destroyed Lebanon's infrastructure, airports, etc...not Nasrallah. Where were the combatants at the airports, catching a flight to Jamaica? Where were the combatants in the Christian minority areas that had been shelled?
'Isreal did not kidnapp people in lebanon, Nasrallah and the islamists did, nor did they shoot rockets into Lebanon until fired on first. As for the populace inside Lebanon they know the risk of the islamists and need to stand up against that terror.'
--- Lebanon was in realative political calmness before this war. Ever hear of the Cedar Revolution?
'Calmness with Islamist terrorist mafia's running the streets, killing popular democratic politicians.'
I need another set of jokes please, these were funny but old...
OK LET THEM BELEAVE THEY WON,LET'S SEE HOW THEY DO NEXT TIME,IT WILL BE A LOT LONGER THAN 3 WEEKS.....
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mfeldMay 2nd, 2007 - 17:30:12
Right. A democratic country vs an autocratic body of fanatics! A country willing to discuss its' failures vs.a blindly followed mullah who one dares call a failure! Yes, Hizbollah, what courage to kill and kidnap and create havoc not only for your enemy but for your own countrymen.
The aims of the war were justified but unfortunately the leaders did not think things thoroughly and in a democratic country, mostly one has to take responsibility.
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