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Nasrallah says, in hindsight, he shouldn’t have ordered soldiers’ kidnapping (Update: Prisoner swap in the works)

posted at 1:38 pm on August 27, 2006 by Allahpundit
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That’s all there is thus far. Almost certainly he means it in the sense of “because the terrible Zionist aggressor used it as a pretext to punish the suffering people of blah blah.” But regrets is regrets.

Was there more to that “Israel won” theory than we thought?

Update: The full quote:

“We did not think, even 1 percent, that the capture would lead to a war at this time and of this magnitude. You ask me, if I had known on July 11 … that the operation would lead to such a war, would I do it? I say no, absolutely not,” he said in an interview with Lebanon’s New TV station.

Update: There might be one or, conceivably, two people who haven’t yet heard about this Weekly Standard blockbuster on UNIFIL yet. Special delivery just for you, slackers:

UNIFIL–the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, a nearly 2,000-man blue-helmet contingent that has been present on the Lebanon-Israel border since 1978–is officially neutral. Yet, throughout the recent war, it posted on its website for all to see precise information about the movements of Israeli Defense Forces soldiers and the nature of their weaponry and materiel, even specifying the placement of IDF safety structures within hours of their construction. New information was sometimes only 30 minutes old when it was posted, and never more than 24 hours old.

Meanwhile, UNIFIL posted not a single item of specific intelligence regarding Hezbollah forces.

Holocaust survivor/Democrat/mensch Tom Lantos says he’ll torpedo Bush’s aid package to Lebanon unless UNIFIL deploys on the Syrian border to prevent Iran from rearming Hezbollah. Good luck, Tom.

Update: There was a report this morning in Al-Ahram that Israel had, stupidly, agreed to a prisoner exchange with Hezbollah for the return of the two Israeli soldiers who are still being held. Nasrallah has now confirmed it.

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Israel seems to be going through a ‘Vietnam era’ of military and policial indeciviseness. In their case, the cost could be huge.

Mike O on August 27, 2006 at 2:39 PM

Yet, throughout the recent war, it posted on its website for all to see precise information about the movements of Israeli Defense Forces soldiers and the nature of their weaponry and materiel, even specifying the placement of IDF safety structures within hours of their construction. New information was sometimes only 30 minutes old when it was posted, and never more than 24 hours old.

Meanwhile, UNIFIL posted not a single item of specific intelligence regarding Hezbollah forces.

This proves those of you who claim the U.N. is worthless, totally wrong. The 30min. and LT 24 span also proves that they are efficient.

So, they are lacking in one area, how to help the Israelis a bit – one can’t be perfect; it’s human nature.

/sarcasm off

Entelechy on August 27, 2006 at 2:39 PM

I know I used the quotes correctly, as well as the link on another thread. Something is the matter with the html commands this morning.

Sometimes, I’m really goofy – not htis morning, though. Thanks for looking into,

Entelechy on August 27, 2006 at 2:41 PM

You didn’t use them correctly. Your first blockquote tag started at the end of the quote.

Allahpundit on August 27, 2006 at 2:45 PM

Thanks AP – mea culpa then; goofy early :(

Entelechy on August 27, 2006 at 2:47 PM

Yep, and this is the same group, led by the same country, that is now supposed to watch Hez… uh… do whatever they want to do??? Cuase Kofi baby has already said they won’t disarm Hez…

This just gets worse and worse…

Romeo13 on August 27, 2006 at 3:00 PM

Holocaust survivor/Democrat/mensch Tom Lantos says he’ll torpedo Bush’s aid package to Lebanon unless UNIFIL deploys on the Syrian border to prevent Iran from rearming Hezbollah. Good luck, Tom.

good. i hope that aid package does get torpedoed. what do i care about some blown up buildings in lebanon? the lebanese never had any love for america. there are better things to do with my tax dollars than re-build structures in lebanon that hezbollah will just take over and turn into safehouses for their terrorist operations because the lebanese goverment has no spine to stand up to hezbollah or they simpathize with hezbollah. how about sending the money for that aid package to isreal so the next time hezbollah starts shooting rockets into their cities they can tell the UN to kiss off and then they can finish the job.

wizduels on August 27, 2006 at 3:02 PM

Not only do the UNIFIL documents show how they repeatedly published Israeli troop movements, but they include a few gems like this:

Another UN position of the Ghanaian battalion in the area of Marwahin in the western sector was also directly hit by one mortar round from the Hezbollah side last night.

Where was the outrage from the U.N. on this? Where was Kofi Annan’s press conferences calling this a “deliberate attack” on the “neutral” U.N. officials?

And about Kofi’s claims that Israel was “deliberately attacking U.N. positions”…

There were three incidents of Hezbollah firing rockets from the vicinity of UNIFIL positions in the general area of Tibnin, At Tiri and Bayt Yahun.

…and:

Hezbollah firing was also reported from the immediate vicinity of the UN positions in Naqoura and Maroun Al Ras areas at the time of the incidents.

…and on and on and on.

Maybe it’s time for the U.N. and Kofi Annan to explain their disproportionate response!

TexasRainmaker on August 27, 2006 at 4:07 PM

There was this:

Nasrallah says, in hindsight, he shouldn’t have ordered soldiers’ kidnapping.

and then this:

There was a report this morning in Al-Ahram that Israel had, stupidly, agreed to a prisoner exchange with Hezbollah for the return of the two Israeli soldiers who are still being held.

Nasrallah: Well since their just handing out the candy, what the hey, eh?

THeDRiFTeR on August 27, 2006 at 4:15 PM

Israel seems to be going through a ‘Vietnam era’ of military and policial indeciviseness. In their case, the cost could be huge.

Mike O on August 27, 2006 at 2:39 PM

58,226 U.S. soldiers were killed in action or classified as missing in action. A further 153,303 U.S. military personnel were wounded, for a total casualty count of 211,529. The United States Army took the majority of the casualties with 38,179 killed and 96,802 wounded; the U.S. Marine Corps lost 14,836 killed and 51,392 wounded; the U.S. Navy 2,556 and 4,178; the U.S. Air Force 2,580 and 931; and the Coast Guard 7 and 60.

Because in our case, the cost was negligible.

THeDRiFTeR on August 27, 2006 at 4:21 PM

how about sending the money for that aid package to isreal

wizduels on August 27, 2006 at 3:02 PM

Israel, already the recipient of more US aid than all of sub saharan africa? That Israel? Have you not read this little tidbit? Should there not be any conditions to our largesse? Yes, of course there should. And The Great Communicator knew about how to impose them.

Israel’s use of cluster bombs in its 1982 invasion of Lebanon provoked a congressional enquiry, which concluded Israel had broken the conditions on their sale. Ronald Reagan’s administration then imposed a six-year ban on deliveries of the munitions to Israel.

Perhaps Allahpundit missed this one too. Hmm. I wonder. Anyway.

THeDRiFTeR on August 27, 2006 at 4:32 PM

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