Mahmoud Komati, a senior political figure in Hezbollah said the following in an interview with the Associated Press:
"The truth is _ let me say this clearly _ we didn't even expect (this) response.... that (Israel) would exploit this operation for this big war against us," said Komati. He said Hezbollah had expected "the usual, limited response" from Israel to the July 12 cross-border raid, in which three Israelis were killed.
In the past, he said, Israeli responses to Hezbollah actions included sending commandos into Lebanon to seize Hezbollah officials or briefly targeting specific Hezbollah strongholds.
He said the Shiite group had anticipated there would be negotiations on exchanging the Israeli soldiers for three Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails, with Germany acting as a mediator as it did before.
How stupid can one group of people really be? First of all, everyone and his slightly slow brother knows this isn't about a prisoner swap. If it were, the swap would have been done and this whole situation would have ended by now. This is the hand of Iran mixing the pot of discord to deflect attention from themselves.
In response to Komati, however, I say this. The Israelis have every right to be pissed off. You people have wanted their blood for thousands of years. You got a nice grace period during the 1930s and '40s where the Germans decided to give you a hand, but now it's all you again.
Israelis are sick and tired of the whole persecution thing, and I think they're probably pretty pissed off at Hezbollah constantly bitching and whining that they started it. Anti-semites all sound like kids who got their asses kicked one too many times on the playground and always ran to mommy claiming the other kid threw the first punch.
Now Hezbollah, and to an extent, the Lebanese people are trying to get sympathy from the world because Lebanon, a country that declined to control a terrorist faction operating within its borders is getting a mudhole stomped in its ass by a country that's had it with missiles, rockets, kidnappings and murders.
Lebanon itself needs to own up to the fact that its failure to control and eliminate Hezbollah from their territory is as much a cause of these strikes as Israel's determination to end the attacks against their citizens
So Israel surpassed your expectations. Maybe this time you'll learn to play nice.
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