Israel at War Watch: Hezbollah Leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah Threatens to Bomb Tel Aviv
A group of displaced Lebanese watch a taped television speech of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on a large screen in a shelter in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2006. Hezbollah’s leader threatened to send rockets into Tel Aviv if Beirut proper was attacked, but offered a cease-fire in the air war, pledging to halt rocket attacks if Israel stops airstrikes.
AP: Hezbollah leader threatens Tel Aviv
Hezbollah’s leader offered Thursday to stop rocket attacks on northernIsrael in return for an end to airstrikes throughout Lebanon.
However, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah also vowed to fire rockets into Tel Aviv if Israel strikes Beirut proper. Israeli warplanes have repeatedly bombarded Hezbollah strongholds in southern suburbs of Beirut.
“If you bomb our capital Beirut, we will bomb the capital of your usurping entity… We will bomb Tel Aviv,” he said in a taped televised speech.
An interesting carrot and stick approach by a terrorist leader who is LOSING a war. Israel has nohing to gain in such a proposal. And the threat…….
If Hezbollah were to attack Tel Aviv with longer range Iranian missiles and/or WMD Tehran had better sound the air raid sirens at Natanz.
In issuing the threat, Nasrallah offered his first opening toward diminishing the three-week-old conflict, which has taken more than 500 Lebanese lives and killed more than 50 Israelis.
“Anytime you decide to stop your campaign against our cities, villages, civilians and infrastructure, we will not fire rockets on any Israeli settlement or city,” he said.
In his statement, Nasrallah also said his fighters have inflicted “maximum casualties” on Israeli ground troops and that his guerrillas are “fighting until the last breath and last bullet.”
Nasrallah is playing with the Europeans and the Western media cycle. Hezbollah is losing the war and Israel is closing in on their objectives.
Hezbollah bargains from a weakened position militarily and must capitulate completely for peace.
Stay tuned……..
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