Al nasr lel moqawama!

and did you notice Jeffrey Feltman's statements today? Quite a change in tune:) el Kalb!

What a sore loser:) Send on whatever makes you feel better ... Its allways nice to know how God damn frustrated you are:)
Hehehe...

james is just a reincarnation of the punk who was banned for spamming.

judging by his comments, he looks like a good candidate for banning under the rule that you must not publish comments or posts that primarily serve to insult, defame, or denigrate another private individual (as opposed to public figure).

the comments below seem to do just that.

can I have a show of hands please?

feel free to post suggestions and comments or e-mail them to me privately.

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"Money" has no value - people do.

I don't like the pics of Abdul Alhazred | Mon, 2007-12-03 00:32
as well, since they are also just flamewar material.

Maybe you should just ban flamewars.

i like visiting WUFYS to read the usually excellent posts and the replies, even when they get heated.

But i don't understand the need for pics of pig porn or personally maligning a person.

The pics of pigs are a waste of server space and bandwidth...i grew up on a stock and grain farm raising pigs, so the pic of pigs fornicating isn't nothing i haven't seen before.

But that's where it belongs, in the stockyard, not in an intelligent, online site like WUFYS.

P.S. AZ, could i get a copy of the great pic of Condi Rice with blood dripping from her mouth?

Would love to post that at another site.

gb

This clown has nothing to contribute. Those pig porn pics are offensive..

AAZ's post was informative and sourced from media that we seldom see. It was welcome here.

Ban that troll.

You know what I don't understand? There are so many, millions of Arabs and so few Israeli's
[sp] Why are the Palestinians being mass murdered? Especially the children. From the reading I have done, the children are singled out with gun scopes. No one does anything about it.
If someone invaded this country [America] and started killing our children, God help those invaders. I am sick to death about what is going on and no body doing anything about it. Yes, we can do something, we have the polls, we have the internet, we have extra money to adopt a child in Palestine and keep him/her from strarving to death.
You know what? I have had several emails from Jewish outfits almost begging for money to keep Jewish children from starving to death. I wrote back and asked what they were doing with the 25 Billion that they got from American taxpayers. No response to my several requests. No Jewish child should go hungry and allowed to write terrible notes on bombs to kill Palestinians.
Talk about racism! They have it all, don't they? Well, I wouldn't piss on an Israeli it he were on fire. That is terrible to say, but, that is what the Jews have done to me. They have made me anti semetic and an almost hater of jews. Not quite, but, it is coming.
This is coming from an old fashioned Catholic that was taught to love the jews. God help me, I cannot anymore.
Forgive this terrible email. This is not like me, but, I feel better for getting it out. kennybent

"I wouldn't piss on an Israeli [if] he were on fire."

Good one! Neither would I - but, I might piss on him if he weren't!

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"Money" has no value - people do.

Now that I re-read my post it looks very open to misinterpretation. So I'll give it another try.

The first pics and cartoons of Abdul Alhazred are really good but his Hitler pic to counter the pigporn is like throwing shit at shit-thrower (now banned) james, which just makes WUFYS look like shit.
Making the regulars lose their cool and throwing shit themselves is probably what james wanted to achieve in the first place.

So if Abdul's Hitler pic could be removed as well, that would be great. But he doesn't need to be banned since this was just a one time slip up.

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It is understandable although not logical and not just to hate an entire group for the actions of some of its member.

Abdul hating jews (see the hitler pic) for the actions of sadistic israeli's is comparable to many westerners hating every Muslim or anyone even remotely similar looking.

Many Iraqi's I know hate all Americans since they see that (in the beginning) nearly all Americans on tv or internet are very concerned about their own invading criminal sons and daughters and don't give a damn about Iraqi's getting slaughtered or tortured in the hundreds of thousands. Even the "anti-war" Americans in the beginning only mentioned how difficult it was for their own soldiers, not that killing Iraqi's also fellow human beings for no good reason was just wrong.

Hi Qrswave,

I have no idea who jamessmaller or abul al azhared are... but the pictures uploaded by jamessmaller and then posted on the site along with what is written far transcend the limits of a 'civilized' or even semi-civilized discussion. I don't know if abu al azhared and james have had past religious confrontations or not, but I do know that what james posted is totally unacceptable and irrelevant to political discourse. I don't know if you read Arabic or not, but one of the pigs in each picture is portrayed as the prophet Mohammed or God (Allah).

As for the pictures of sheikh Yassin and Rantissi, both these highly respected leaders were assassinated by Israel.. and these were political leaders not even militant ones. Pictures of both of these assassinations were kept away partly in respect to the leaders and partly because of the hurt and sensitivity Palestinians felt seeing the assassination of their leadership without any interference or condemnation from the world. jamessmaller is actually bragging about Israel's power to assassinate without any accountability... since condemnations of Israel are always vetoed.

I find this person jamessmaller extremely rude and provocative and mainly an agitator.

Salam

Forgive me but… what you write doesn’t make much sense to me. I don’t think that you can at all compare Abdul Alhazrid’s “hatred” of “Jews” to Western “hatred” of Muslims or Iraqi “hatred” to Americans. The US has occupied and totally destroyed the country of Iraq. Over a million dead Iraqis… God knows how many injured and maimed. Four million homeless and refugees. No schools. No universities. Hardly any electricity. No clean water. No sewage… and on… Israel, the “Jewish state” has occupied and destroyed Palestine. 5 or 6 million Palestinian refugee.. and basically all the countries goods transferred along the past 60 years to the new Israeli community. I don’t think that I need to lay out the details of Palestine because I guess that you know them.

I don’t know Abdul Alhazred, but I imagine that in your comments, he is representing the Muslim community of the world… or maybe the Arabs… or maybe the Middle East. Either way, what have any of those communities done to the West and to the Jews to deserve from them constant defamation, insulting and slandering? Why is the Muslim prophet the subject of endless campaigns of rude cartoons and pig pictures all the time? I am actually kind of astonished that you chose to pick on Abdul Alhazred’s picture rather than the four of jamessmall which were extremely provocative especially to pious people. You placed the injured party and the aggressor on the same scale.. actually you even tipped the scale in favor of the aggressor who in this case was james. This astonishes me a little especially from someone with a name like Seif_katana.

It's really sad when a person insults god,religion or a prophet...may god point you in the right direction so you can realise what your doing.

I like your Tales From The Wasteland blog, AZ. I read your Mancaca short story in it's entirety yesterday. I was wondering if the alien parasites were a metaphor for the Jews (you've used that analogy several times here), or whether the whole thing is just an example of what you've referred to in the past as a "mental vacation", because of the UFO theme 'n' all.

In an email we exchanged two days ago, I asked you:
"why is abdul al hazred allowed to call death to the jews and death to israel"

and your response was:
"he never said death to the jews"

LOL!
Did you see the picture he posted up on the fourth comment on this page, with the guy with the two middle fingers, which said "Hitler had the right idead"?
Anyone who says abdul alhazred doesn't call death to the jews is smoking crack!

I just noticed you took down my comments qrswave. So that would make abdul alhazred hitler comment the third comment instead of the fourth comment on this page. wow i was commnet number 3 and now he replaced me. cool!!!!
qrswave, why dont you take down abdul al hazred's comment of the guy with the two middle fingers picture, or the image of the post card he posted up on another one of your pages which said: bye bye tel aviv with a nuclear bomb in the middle, etc....
why dont you also shut down his account, and block his IP?????????
i bet you you never even told him to cool down his redirict!

but, then - so are you.

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"Money" has no value - people do.

..face it, all zionists go to hell. [bye!]

I just read your comment in another post saying: “It's very hard to do while maintaining a policy of free speech and at times I've been tempted to delete a few assinine and sometimes hateful comments now and then, though - as God is my witness - I never did.”

Your comments prompt me to ask you why you removed my comments of yesterday’s or the day before with pictures of Hezbollah fighters and fans.. especially the first one in which Hezbollah fighters were lined up barely a few meters away from illegal Israeli settlements built in occupied Palestine? These pictures were intended to show jamessmaller that there are forces that are standing up to him and his likes regardless of the perversion he and his like minded Zionist arm-twisting and manipulative bullies practice. These pictures were also intended to show jamessmaller that the more he and his likes insist on persuing perverted methods in dealing with the Arab and Muslim world rather than peaceful and civilized methods, the more movements such as Hezbollah’s were becoming popular among all levels of society... since normal human beings fundamentally don’t accept uncivilized and unjust Israeli Zionist methods such as the ones used by jamessmaller on this blog with his pictures of the pigs. I don’t believe that in my post I defamed any religions or beliefs unless you can show me otherwise. I don’t think that my reaction to james was close to or harsh or "assinine" considering his unnecessary and un-called-for rudeness as well as his drawing into a purely political issue, religion and then proceeding in defaming and slandering its prophet as is done by most Zionists. If you cancelled my entire post because I called james in Arabic a ‘khawal’ and a ‘me3arras’ which I believe he and all Zionists are, it would truly astonish me as the comment sections of WUFYS are often full of heated debates which use the equivalent of such language and which you didn’t remove. Muslims, Christians, Bhuddists, atheists or Martians can have heated debates and use heated language… and its ok and normal… None of them will complain because it’s just a debate after all…

BUT… comes in the Zionist Jew… agitates certain site members then complains that he is being ‘victimized’:)

Though I have much admiration for WUFYS, it saddens me that a ‘jamessmaller’ basically succeeded in his “mission” and successfully cried “wolf”. James did exactly what Israel does. He attacked fiercely without cause and without heart. He inflicted unnecessary pain. When he got a harsh response, he cried and started to play victim.

He tells you Qrs:
"why is abdul al hazred allowed to call death to the jews and death to israel"
“Did you see the picture he posted up on the fourth comment on this page, with the guy with the two middle fingers, which said "Hitler had the right idead"?
Anyone who says abdul alhazred doesn't call death to the jews is smoking crack!”

conclusion:

James played his game perfectly. He (as is the fashion) defamed Islam and its prophet and he finished this debate by bringing Hitler and the Jews into the discussion when the original post had nothing to do with them.

This is an exact microcosm of what the Zionist lobby and Israel do in the US. After their crimes, they morph the ensuing problem into a holocaust issue.

Very sorry to bring this up, but I am simply disappointed at WUFYS.

I agree. I can repost your comment, minus the foreword.

I was going to do that initially, but I didn't want to modify your comment without asking.

It's not easy drawing the line. Bear with me.

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"Money" has no value - people do.

I actually was dismayed when I saw your pictures gone.

I figured QRS may have accidentally pulled more than she meant to.

But they are back and I am so glad - GREAT pictures, Cherifa, so glad you posted them....and you showed by far the class that is so lacking in zionist scumbags who know only how to spew filth and smut. This is their typical behavior when they feel their gargoyle toes have been stepped on.

All the pictures on this post are wonderful.

It's uplifting to see courage and real true heroes.

Makes me smile.

[albeit a tiny facet of their typical behavior] .....but here's an example of exactly how these zionist filth usually behave.

No Class - screaming and wailing like a banshee:

[I know everyone saw this, but still it reminds me of jamesmallar and it is always a good watch]

Qrswave.. I know its not easy to draw the line and I will bare with you:) You know how I appreciate WUFYS. Thanks for reposting the pictures

Rhiannon.. thanks for that great video. Unbelievable how that man was talking to the Orthodox Jews! What chutzpah especially that it is well known that zionism is an atheist movement..

On another issue Rhiannon, notice what is happening in Lebanon??????
F A S C I N A T I N G !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hatred
I apologize if my previous post wasn't clear enough.

Rationally speaking the hatred of the West is totally unfounded compared to the suffering of the Muslims they kill. You are of course correct.

However that wasn't my point. The point was that they have some much hatred founded or not.

How else can you bring so much injustice to Muslims and love doing it. Many are still not satisfied until there are no Muslims left.

Although there are also many westerners who see Muslims as fellow humans. Too bad nice guys with good morals rarely get to rule countries.

Caring
The reason I picked on Abdul's picture is because I see hem as one of "my own" and would like to correct him. Or else he is just playing into James his hands.

Always try to stay calm and think things through, instead of letting the enemy control you with your emotions. Letting your emotions control you is what got those dumb US soldiers in Iraq in the first place "getting them for 9/11" etc.

James deliberate sabotage posts are far worse and not even comparable with Abdul's (compared to James very minor but still very wrong) slip up.
I see removing Abdul's pic more as way too correct his mistake instead of punishment as it is for James.

I have never hated my enemy. People slaughtering babies won't get it easy in the hereafter anyways. They'll get theirs. As will those babies except in a good way.
Don't get me wrong, it is not that I am apathetic, but if my actions will not be productive and even counter-productive -like making yourself look stupid- I will not do it.

If I have hated someone it is usually one of "my own people" and especially myself doing mistakes.

The enemy cannot make the Muslims lose, only stop the Muslims from winning. If the Muslims lose it is because of their own faults and weaknesses and that is why I hate the mistakes of "my own" and especially myself.

Come to think of it you could describe my initial feelings to the flaming like this.
Abdul's fingernail too me is more important than James life. So who cares is James post those pics, just ban him and move on.
If I was a "self-hating" Muslim I would have mimicked the actions of those truly "self-hating jews", encouraging and complimenting each other to do wrong things eventually destroying themselves with their own crimes.
Again to be clear, not correcting Abdul is not like destroying people like the Israeli's do. But to me it is far more worth protecting "my own" from their mistakes compared to protecting "my enemies" from their mistakes.
In a discussion protecting your own people from their mistakes is like protecting them from the enemy.

It would in some aspects be better to correct people in private, preventing the impression you are humiliating them in public. But that also has its drawbacks by not letting the others know your position and getting feedback from them, thats what an open forum is about.

Of course you cannot do more than you are capable of doing, and if you have done all you can that is enough.
Allah knows best.

I hope this is clear enough. I usually don't write my thoughts out so explicitly here, assuming others are able to fill the blanks. If people post too short they are usually misunderstood. However writing a post like this and rechecking it a few times takes me about an hour!

Thank you Saif for taking the time to reply to me and your point is taken. I whole heartedly agree with you when you say that:

"In a discussion protecting your own people from their mistakes is like protecting them from the enemy."

and

"If the Muslims lose it is because of their own faults and weaknesses and that is why I hate the mistakes of "my own" and especially myself."

It is also true that the zionists absolutely count on our mistakes or generally on the mistakes of anyone they are targeting. They count on provoking their enemy into the very trap they have laid in advance.. and God knows that they've laid lots of traps for the Middle East..., the Muslims of the world and now also the American people. They are a real pain in the neck:)

This is an interesting article i think you guys should read:

Why Hezbollah LOST the War in Lebanon!
And the Current 'Present' Situation in Southern Lebanon

By Gabriel al-Amin
Beirut, Lebanon

http://www.lebanonwire.com/0709MLN/07092429MN.asp

On July 12, 2006 Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers that led to Israel's war with them and, by extension, Lebanon itself. Hezbollah has been on Israel's fence since the latter's withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000. Israel always requested from the international community and from the Lebanese government to deploy its Lebanese Army there instead of Hezbollah militants. Hezbollah, quite naturally, refused! Hezbollah vowed to NEVER allow any other force other than itself to occupy southern Lebanon. Even during the conflict, Hezbollah said it would never agree to allow either the Lebanese army nor international monitors to patrol southern Lebanon.

Then finally, when two IDF (Israeli Defense Force) soldiers were kidnapped, Israel found the perfect excuse it was looking for to go into Lebanon and push Hezbollah well away from the Lebanese-Israel border. Israel pursued a limited invasion and killed over 500-600 Hezbollah members during the one month war. Additionally, Israel took over every single village in southern Lebanon. During the conflict even though Hezbollah received such a blow and all its members were freaked out and on the run. Yet when the hostilities ended, Hezbollah claimed victory! But did it really win?

Firstly, Israel agreed to a cessation of hostilities NOT because it surrendered and defeated militarily, but because of international pressure from the European Union and the United States. During this conflict Israel endured more international pressure, than it ever did in the past 10 years. Israel was put forth conditions and international agreements, such as the deployment of 15,000 Lebanese soldiers and 15,000 United Nations peace keepers into southern Lebanon, and arms embargo on Hezbollah. "This" proposal which was presented to Israel which EVEN Hezbollah agreed to accept, was something Israel was yearning for for many decades and was a once in a life time opportunity, it was a REAL "golden opportunity," even the far right in Israel said "this is an excellent proposal, so give it a shot." This cessation of hostilities, known as "The August Ceasefire", was initiated by the United Nations and International Community, and was put forward before both parties, Israel and Hezbollah, Hezbollah JUMPED right on the wagon to accept, because they saw it as the only way out of the mess they got themselves into. While at the same time, Israel was more stubborn on accept this ceasefire-agreement, since they were on a winning streak. Ever since then Hezbollah has not been seen or heard from in Southern Lebanon! At long last the frail Lebanese Government has finally had a degree of sovereignty over all of its state and is finally monitoring and guarding its own borders.

Not too long ago, nearly all television and print media images coming out of southern Lebanon were that of armed Hezbollah fighters with their guns, outposts, and banners. Not anymore! Hezbollah is now hiding under rocks in Southern Lebanon, its military might having received a substantial blow. In addition, Hezbollah is no longer enjoying the freedom and luxury of easily transferring Syrian/Iranian weaponry across the Lebanese-Syrian border or via the Beirut seaport. Much of this due to the combined efforts of a stronger Lebanese army and U.N. forces keeping a lid on such transferals.

But even though the International Troops and the Lebanese Army keep Hezbollah in check, isn't there still Hezbollah presence in Southern Lebanon, EVEN THOUGH they are hiding "under rocks?" The same could be said for Al Qaeda presence in the United States, who are also hiding under rocks.

Hezbollah may portray themselves as fearsome "militants" but they are in fact cowards cowering behind Lebanese civilians. Yet, through mostly pin-point targeting, the IDF dealt a heavy blow to Hezbollah. Five to six hundred Hezbollah terrorists were killed and nearly all of their bases, headquarters and tactical infrastructure destroyed.

Some might say, "But didn’t Hezbollah manage to shoot over one hundred rockets into Israel every single day? AND why, during the war, didn't the Israel army/air-force ever manage to stop the Katyusha fire?" Well the answer to that would be "What's so impressive about groups of one or two rag heads pointing and setting off an unguided Katyusha southward into Israel?" In addition to the fact that Hezbollah only needed 1% of their military might in order to shoot Katyushas from their scattered fields and caves, into Israel every day. Plus, the only way to have completely stopped the Katyusha fire would have been to occupy every square inch of South Lebanon, including 20 miles north of the Litani, and to stay there for a few months.

Israel 'BADLY' miscalculated Hezbollah, those past 6 years since it withdrew from Lebanon. Why? Because in 2004, it was estimated that if Israel was to engage in war with Hezbollah, their Katyusha arsenal would result in 100 deaths per day on the Israeli side, but instead only 2 people per day were killed by those rockets. But during the war, Israel came to the realization that 99.9% of all those rocket attacks, mostly result in a lot of noise and broken windows. Prior to the war it was also estimated that if Israel launched a ground invasion, it would result in the deaths of over 70 Israeli soldiers per day, which would have left over 2000 dead on the IDF side at the end of the 34 day conflict. But only 120 soldiers were killed in total, which makes it 3-4 soldiers per day. Also, prior to the war AND during the war, both the ‘poor’ Israeli intelligence and Hezbollah itself even claimed, that the "Mighty Hezbollah Rocket Arsenal" would hit Tel-Aviv, but ‘no rocket ever made it to Tel-Aviv!’ Instead, Hezbollah, tried to send little remote controlled ‘toy’ planes there.

The reason 120 soldiers were killed in the first place, is because what would someone expect if an army deployed 30,000 soldiers squashed together in a small, tight, open space (South Lebanon)! It was amazing that after the war, those soldier didn't all suffer from cluster phobia. But even though Israel deployed so many soldiers in the open, Hezbollah didn't manage to deliver that harsh blow as was estimated before the ground invasion. But after all, Hezbollah didn't fight as courageous as the Egyptians during the Suez Canal invasion, nor as the Syrians during the war in the Golan heights.

It shouldn’t shock the world that Hezbollah bombed a couple Israeli Merkava Tanks, because even the Palestinians have done it in the past too. Blowing up a Merkava Tank is NOT an ‘uncommon’ operation. But at the same time Israel was still advancing and still taking over every village in South Lebanon, bombing every headquarter and outpost, all Hezbollah members were on the run. Even though Israel lost a couple of tanks and didn’t destroy Hezbollah, it still doesn’t mean they (Israel) were defeated militarily. The definition of military defeat, mean: to crush the other side, force it to flee and or be on the run, or force it into surrender. Israel was not defeated militarily!

The same can be said about the Israeli naval ship that was bombed by Hezbollah of the coast of Lebanon, during the first week of the conflict, which caused a tiny bit of damage to the ship and which resulted in the deaths of 4 Israeli naval soldiers. Once again this wasn’t a military defeat, but it was an internal flaw, which meant that; Israel needed a better anti missile naval detector radar, a better anti missile interceptor, and better armor for its ship. But did Hezbollah succeed in sinking the ship and destroying it completely, did they destroy all the Israeli naval ships of the Lebanon Coast, did Israel scurry away with all its ships with its tail in between its legs, or did Israel ask for a cease-fire? NO! Instead, Israel simultaneously the same day, brought the damaged ship back into Israel for repair and sent another ship to the Lebanon Coast to replace it.

During and after the war, Hezbollah regretted starting the war in the first place, by kidnapped the two Israeli soldiers. But Israel on the other hand, didn’t regret going to war with Hezbollah, not even 1%. In fact Israel was ready to go for round two, but Hezbollah, will not dare even consider thinking about it.

During the fighting, many people (both inside and outside Lebanon) finally saw Hezbollah as they really are... a terrorist group. It's strategy had little or no military value. The rockets they launched were intended to cause terror among Israel's citizenry. They were not aimed at Israel military targets.

Israel never managed to destroy Hezbollah. As much as the IDF might have wanted to, the wiping out of Hezbollah was not Israel's goal. Nor could it ever be its goal. It is against the laws of physics to destroy a guerilla/terrorist group (America is learning it the hard way with Al Qaeda) since their operatives and members are always blending in and out of the civilian populations from which they so cowardly operate. In fact NEVER in history has a guerilla group ever been destroyed.

Additionally, rescuing the kidnapped IDF soldiers without a strong intelligence as to exactly where they were hidden, would have been a nearly impossible mission.. assuming they had not already been secreted out of Lebanon into Syria or Iran!

We constantly hear phrases such "Hezbollah emerged stronger," "Hezbollah is now stronger than ever," or "Hezbollah is now seen stronger than before!" There is some truth to that. Since before the Israeli withdrawal of 2000, Hezbollah was seen as more of a small arms, home made explosive, cut and run group, but during this conflict they were able to show off their Iranian made weapons. But they were no match for the Israeli army, whom they bowed down to at the end, by feeling too threatened to attack and provoke ever again.

When the United Nations wanted to impose a 48-hour ceasefire, it was Hezbollah which rushed to accept while Israel had to be pressured. Obviously this was because Israel had the military momentum in her favor. And when the month-long conflict ended, Hezbollah leader, Nasrallah, remained in an underground bunker, no longer enjoying frequent visits to central Beirut, giving daily "Hate Israel" speeches, driving down to his home town of southern Lebanon or enjoying first class flights to Damascus and Tehran. Nasrallah even admitted that had he known that even one percent of this war would have gone as it had, he would have NEVER kidnapped the soldiers and thus started the war!

"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." - Hezbollah Leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, August 27, 2006

In February 2007, there was a skirmish between Israeli troops and the Lebanese army on the Israel/Lebanon border, even though this skirmish that resulted in a shoot out and was unfortunate, the ray of light from all this, was that Israel was confronted and attacked by the Lebanese army and not by Hezbollah. This was one of the first signs that showed that the Lebanese army was doing its job. This was mostly due to the fact that Hezbollah lost its kingdom in Southern Lebanon, and is NOW in constant check by UNIFL, Lebanese Army, and International Troops. At least the Lebanese army was able to stand its ground and take control, unlike BEFORE the August 11 ceasefire! At least Israel finally got its wish, after 40 years, to FINALLY have the Lebanese army in control of the border. Since August 11, 2006 when the Lebanese army began its deployment in Southern Lebanon, not a single Katuysha, let alone a singe bullet was fired toward the Israeli side of the fence by Hezbollah. Unlike after the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000, when Hezbollah would look for any excuse to shoot Katyushas into Israel at least once every three months, but not anymore. No longer will the Israeli citizens of Northern Israel will ever live in fear once again!

People in the Lebanese Government now hate Hezbollah, for bringing destruction to Lebanon. All of Hezbollah's southern Beirut strong posts were destroyed by Israel. Even after the cease fire, Israel stayed in Lebanon for two more months in order to destroy all remaining Hezbollah outposts and bunkers while Hezbollah stood by and did nothing. During the conflict some of the Israel/Lebanon border fence was destroyed and torn down, and Israel was in no rush to fix it, since what's the point? Hezbollah will not want to mess with the IDF again! Even until today some of that fence has not been fixed yet, since the only threat of infiltration, now, is from drug dealers smuggling Hashish across that border.

But what about the Winograd Commission, "which is an independent Israeli government-appointed commission of inquiry, chaired by retired Israeli chief judge Eliyahu Winograd, which is set out to investigate and draw lessons from the failures experienced by Israel during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. Which resulted in a war panel, and even the resignation of high figures such as the Israeli chief of staff Dan Halutz." The reason THIS is currently taking place in Israel, is it goes to show that Israel is a democratic country! If a "Lebanese-Winograd Commission" would be done to Hezbollah; for launching an illogical irresponsible attack on Israel, by kidnapping the two soldiers which led to the war and the destruction of Lebanon. And if a Lebanese Winograd Commission would be done to the Lebanese government; for not controlling its southern border by allowing thuggish armed militias (Hezbollah) to roam free there, allowing illegal weapon shipments via the Lebanese seaport, air port, and Syrian Lebanese border to those armed "non-governmental" militias, and allowing Syria and Iran to meddle in its politics, then Lebanon would crumble to dust! But after all, Lebanon is not a Democracy.

Worst case scenario, the Winograd Commission and some of the failures of this war, prove, that Israel might have been defeated from within, but not militarily.

Furthermore there hasn't been one complaint filed against Hezbollah on behalf of UNIFL and the International Troops since last year's August cease-fire, the only complaint filed, was against the Israeli army for their over flights over Lebanese territory. Speaking about Israeli over flights, even the Israeli army itself, hasn't complained even once, about hostile enemy fire against its planes by Hezbollah. Since Israel withdrew from Lebanon in May 2000, up until the war last summer, they continued their daily over flight and breaches over Lebanese territory, only to find themselves being confronted by Hezbollah anti-aircraft artillery. But after the August cease-fire Israel 'STILL' continued its breaches over Lebanese airspace, but this time, Hezbollah hasn't even shot one pellet at them! Maybe because they are deterred and maybe because UNIFL and the Lebanese army are now in control.

After the war, Hezbollah saw that it could no longer push around and bully Israel, and are therefore now trying to bully the "weak" Lebanese government by; their mass demonstration, camping out in front of the Lebanese Parliament, and political assassinations.

Israel did loose the war last summer, but not in Lebanon, but instead in Gaza. After Gilad Shalit was kidnapped, Israel began a massive military campaign in Gaza, destroying infrastructure, entering towns and cities, going after terrorists, and also trying to stop the Qassam rocket fire. But instead, all it achieved was nothing, and the results of it were, that now, the Palestinians saw even more of a weakness in Israel. After the Israeli military campaign in Lebanon, deterrence was at least achieved, BUT unlike in Gaza, after the massive military campaign took place there (Gaza), the Israeli deterrence was lost for good, and now, the Palestinians are, even, more UNDETERRED from Israel that ever! And therefore have increased their rocket fire into Israel. In addition to the fact that as soon as Israel stopped its military campaign, Hamas and other groups said, "They are now even more determined than ever to kidnap another Israeli Soldier." In April of 2007, they acted on their promise, under the cover of intense rocket fire on the Israel town of Sderot, Hamas terrorists again attempted to infiltrate Israel in order to abduct another soldier, but failed. A month later the militant group Islamic Jihad successfully infiltrated Israel, to also try to kidnap an Israeli soldier, but also failed. At least they weren't afraid to try!

After the war some Arab Governments, including the Palestinians, claimed Hezbollah achieved a divine victory! But hey, lets not forget, that some of those Arab governments and Palestinians which claimed Hezbollah won that "divine victory," are some of those "same" Arab governments who "STILL" until today claim that Syria, Egypt, and the rest of the Arab World won the 1967 War and the 1973 War! That is why after this war Israel lost its deterrence against the Palestinians, Iran, and Syria. BUT gained heavily, its deterrence, against Hezbollah.

Conclusion:

People from around the world, before the August cease-fire, would have never believed nor imagined that the Lebanese army would EVER be in control of its southern border. Nor, people would have never believed Lebanon would EVER be able to establish control over "illegal" arms shipments across its Lebanese/Syrian border, sea ports, and airports, and, well, it finally is!

Hezbollah will most likely never dare kidnap IDF soldiers because they saw the might and strength of the Israeli army, and they now feel threatened. Sure, some Hezbollah sympathizers may throw rocks, wave Hezbollah flags or scream "Allah Akbar" at the Lebanese-Israeli border fence but Hezbollah rank and file are laying low. Very low! And Hezbollah is no longer the imminent threat at that very same border.

Since the 'moment' the two soldiers were kidnapped and even during the war, Israel knew, they would not succeed in getting them back, in addition to the fact that destroying a guerilla group is against the laws of physics! Once people will get those two facts into their heads, then THEY will realize that, the outcomes that were achieved as a result of this conflict, were the best possible "REALISTIC" outcomes that Israel could have achieved.

Obviously this past year, the Northern Israeli border has been the quietest it has ever been over the past 40 years.

By, Gabriel al-Amin
Beirut, Lebanon

Articles and Refernces:

UNIFL: Not 'ONE' complaint filed against Hezbollah since last years cease-fire
(Jerusalem Post 6/14/2007)
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181813036239&pagename=JPost%...

Again, Israeli gloom is misplaced (First Post - 4/17/2007)
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=1&subID=688&WT.srch=1

Lebanese army, UNIFIL are keeping Hezbollah in check (Haaretz - 2/21/2007)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/828765.html

Hezbollah's 'Victory'? (Washington Post 9/1/2006)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/31/AR200608...

The Lebanese Winnograd Commission (Thomas Friedman, New York Times 5/10/2007)
http://www.theolympian.com/109/story/104847.html

The Egyptian, 1973 October Victory (Egyptian State Information Service)
http://www.sis.gov.eg/VR/october/english/7.htm

Lebanon’s Army Chief "the Lebanese Army is properly controlling its borders with Syria" (Moqwama.net [Hizbollah’s Official Website])
http://www.moqawama.org/english/_nos.php?filename=20070330111424153