World War III in Middle East?

Demure · Post by **Demure** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:31 am

Isrealis are getting bolder aren't they? and those Arab wimps, why can't they unite for moment and fight them good once and for all? I almost don't feel sorry for them. On the other hand the double standards the Western side applies when it comes to this particular conflict is maddening. It's like as long as Isreal is the one on the offense we will only issue a slap on the wrist, now if it was the other way around,I believe they would be running off to other side bombing whoever deared touch poor Isreal.

What do you think a world war III?

qudhac-m · Post by **qudhac-m** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:37 am

^^^^^

ARAB LOVER

The rebel · Post by **The rebel** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:40 am

"...... I almost don't feel sorry for them......"

I took it back whatever I wanted to say about this thread.

Demure, why would you care about us then?

fagash_killer · Post by **fagash_killer** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:41 am

like i said its getting closer, respect to those hezbollah mudjahadiins

Israel bombs Beirut airport

Israel widened its offensive against Hizbullah guerrillas today, targeting the country's only international airport and forcing its closure, and bombing southern Lebanon in what appeared to be Israel's fiercest military campaign against Lebanon since the 1982 invasion.
A shell crashed shortly after 6am (0300GMT) on the eastern runway, one of three, airport employees reported. Another impact was heard shortly afterwards. Two flights arriving at the airport had to return to Larnaca Airport on the island of Cyprus.

Lebanese police reported the shells hit the runways and a road leading from the city.

A senior airport official announced its closure shortly after the shells landed and asked scheduled flights to divert to the neighbouring island of Cyprus. The main terminal building, which was built in the late 1990s, was intact.

It was not clear if all the shelling came from Israeli military aircraft or if gunboats also participated in the attack on the seaside facility, which is located in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of Hizbullah guerrillas.

In Israel, the military confirmed it had targeted Beirut airport, saying in a statement the facility "is a central hub for the transfer of weapons and supplies to the Hizbullah terrorist organization." It is the first time since Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon and occupation of Beirut that the airport has been hit by Israel. The Israelis in 1968 sent commandos to Beirut airport, blowing up 13 passenger planes on the runway in retaliation for Arab militants firing on an Israeli airliner in Athens.

The last major air, ground and sea offensive against Lebanon was in 1996 in which about 150 Lebanese civilians were killed.

In southern Lebanon, at least 22 civilians were reported killed in overnight Israeli attacks, including a family of 12 in the village of Dweir, the TV station LBC reported. Other TV stations, including Hizbullah's al-Manar, put the figures at 27 killed, including 10 children. Police had no immediate confirmation of the latest casualties.

The latest fighting erupted in southern Lebanon yesterday after Hizbullah attacked Israeli border positions, capturing two Israeli soldiers. Eight other Israeli soldiers were killed in the fighting and Israel promised harsh retaliation, blasting bridges and roads in southern Lebanon. The Hizbullah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah yesterday offered to trade the soldiers for Arab prisoners, warning Israel that he will fight if attacked.

Hizbullah has declared it has more than 10,000 rockets and has in the past struck northern Israeli communities in retaliation for attacks against Lebanese civilians.

Hizbullah's TV station reported today that guerrillas fired Katyusha rockets at the Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmona, targeting an airstrip in the upper Galilee panhandle. Another barrage of rockets targeted Nahariya near the coast. Three Israeli civilians were wounded by Katyusha rocket fire in the town, the Israeli military said. Rescue services said one person was badly injured, while the others were slightly hurt.

A bridge on the main highway between Beirut and southern Lebanon was hit overnight by bombs that plowed wide craters, blocking traffic. Some people who were leaving southern Lebanon had to walk across the craters near the town of Damour, about 10 miles south of Beirut.

fagash_killer · Post by **fagash_killer** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:42 am

Rockets hit Israel after airport attack

Thursday, July 13, 2006; Posted: 9:12 a.m. EDT (13:12 GMT)

BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Rockets fired from Lebanon hit a number of towns and villages in northern Israel on Thursday, hours after Israeli aircraft bombed Beirut International Airport.

The escalation in violence came as Israel expanded its military campaign against Hezbollah guerrillas who kidnapped two Israeli soldiers on Wednesday -- bombing the airport and blocking naval traffic in Lebanese waters.

Israel has said it holds the Lebanese government, of which radical Islamic group Hezbollah is a part, responsible for the soldiers' abduction.

Rockets fired from Lebanon hit the center of Safed Thursday, causing casualties, medical sources said. One man was in critical condition and at least 10 others suffered shock and minor injuries. Safed is about 20 kilometers (13 miles) inside the Israeli border with Lebanon.

Police said several rockets hit the town, one of them striking a petrol station. Local officials said the town had not been hit by Hezbollah rockets since 1972.

Lebanese rockets also hit the Jewish town of Carmiel and adjacent Arab village of Majd el-Krum in northern Israel, the army said, according to The Associated Press.

The communities are about 20 kilometers (8 miles) south of the Lebanese border. Channel 10 TV, citing rescue service officials, said one person was moderately wounded in Majd el-Krum.

Hezbollah also threatened to launch a missile attack on the northern Israeli city of Haifa if Israel attacked Beirut, Hezbollah officials told CNN.

Hezbollah threatens Haifa

fagash_killer · Post by **fagash_killer** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:45 am

while the Korea missile talks fails

Thursday 13 July 2006, 13:47 Makka Time, 10:47 GMT

High-level talks between North and South Korea have ended without agreement after North Korea rejected the SouthÂ’s demands to stop test-firing long-range missiles.

South Korea responded by saying that it would halt aid to the impoverished communist North after the negotiations ended a day earlier on Thursday.

The talks were called after North Korea test-fired seven missiles off its eastern coast last week.

A high-ranking South Korean official said: "We're going to (withhold aid) until we see an exit out of this situation.

"As to what the exit is, I think the most important thing is North Korea's return to six-party talks."

Six-nation talks

The North has boycotted the six-nation discussions on the future of its nuclear programme since last year in protest at financial restrictions imposed by Washington.

North Korea said this week's talks had failed because Seoul had said that the North should join the six-nation meetings which include China, Japan, Russia, the US and South Korea.

"The South side created an artificial obstacle to the talks, without discerning where the military threat to the Korean Peninsula comes from," the North Korean delegation said. "North-South high-level talks are never military talks or six-party talks."

Sanctions

North Korea is under Western pressure to halt its nuclear programme. Japan called for UN sanctions against Korea after the recent missile tests, although China is likely to block any such measures.

South Korea's decision to halt aid may be more telling. The South is a major supplier of aid to the North, sending rice and fertiliser to help the country's depleted agricultural sector.

South Korean and US Marines at a joint exercise in 2006

The North had requested 450,000 tons of fertiliser and 500,000 tons of rice this year. The South has already shipped 350,000 tons of the fertiliser.

"Of course, rice and fertiliser is a humanitarian issue. ... But I think that under this situation, peace is also a humanitarian issue," the South Korean official said.

South Korea's warning

South Korea warned the North against additional missile launches, saying this would increase regional tensions and damage inter-Korean relations.

But the North has also argued that its policy of strengthening its military gives protection to South Korea too - a claim immediately rejected by the South.

The two Koreas, separated by the world's most heavily fortified border, remain technically at war since the Korean War ended in a 1953 cease-fire, not a peace treaty.

Demure · Post by **Demure** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:46 am

Qudhac, Kir!

The rebel, I don't particularly care for Arabs, does not mean I can not discuss them or world affairs, does it?

Ceelgabo · Post by **Ceelgabo** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:49 am

[quote="qudhac-m"]^^^^^

ARAB LOVER[/quote]

I'm on the side of the muslims on this one...fuck the bully Yehuuds.

This why Iran and Syria need all the NUke they can get...

Sir-Luggoyo · Post by **Sir-Luggoyo** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:51 am

If you live in a glass house, you should think twice b4 you assault someone with a rock. Kidnapping two GIs wasn't the wisest idea, was it? Israel is the only nation exempted from United Nations rule of law, they have a permanent green light for attacks regardless of being provoked or not. It's no surprise that the rest of the world folded their arms and are reduced to mere spectators of the horrendous events unfolding right under their noses, including the despotic Arab rulers.

The rebel · Post by **The rebel** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:56 am

[quote="Demure"]Qudhac, Kir!

The rebel, I don't particularly care for Arabs, does not mean I can not discuss them or world affairs, does it?[/quote]

Of course you can. This is 'Somali'Net. Who I am ta have a say!!

The Arabman · Post by **The Arabman** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:00 am

"...and those Arab wimps, why can't they unite for moment and fight them good once and for all?"

Because they are seculars. Only Islamists like Sheikh Nasrallah and Sheikh Aweys can do something; that fact is clear and has been absorbed by most Muslims. On what ground would seculars unite? Equally, on what ground would secular warlords unite? Islam? Nope; they don't practice Islam. In fact, they try very hard to distance themselves from Islam. No wonder they are wimps, just like the secular warlords who got kicked out of Somalia in a matter of weeks at the hands of Islamists.

Ceelgabo · Post by **Ceelgabo** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:01 am

[quote="Sir-Luggoyo"]If you live in a glass house, you should think twice b4 you assault someone with a rock. Kidnapping two GIs wasn't the wisest idea, was it? Israel is the only nation exempted from United Nations rule of law, they have a permanent green light for attacks regardless of being provoked or not. It's no surprise that the rest of the world folded their arms and are reduced to mere spectators of the horrendous events unfolding right under their noses, including the despotic Arab rulers.[/quote]

Arabs are cowards who have done nothing for no one...even their own brethrens the Palastinians and the Iraqis.

LIke SOmalis say...Arabs are woman.

QansaGabeyle · Post by **QansaGabeyle** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:01 am

Poor arabs. Getting bullied by 5 millions jews. Laughing

The same western countries whose have bases in the arab nations are the ones that back this israeli aggression.

Ceelgabo · Post by **Ceelgabo** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:02 am

[quote="The Arabman"]"...and those Arab wimps, why can't they unite for moment and fight them good once and for all?"

Because they are seculars. Only Islamists like Sheikh Nasrallah and Sheikh Aweys can do something; that fact is clear and has been absorbed by most Muslims. On what ground would seculars unite? Equally, on what ground would secular warlords unite? Islam? Nope; they don't practice Islam. In fact, they try very hard to distance themselves from Islam. No wonder they are wimps, just like the secular warlords who got kicked out of Somalia in a matter of weeks at the hands of Islamists.[/quote]

When Arabs stand up for their brothers and support any muslim that needs help than Somalis can stand up for Arabs...but until than even though we dislike the Isreal, we can't fight the battle that Arabs need to fight first.

Ceelgabo · Post by **Ceelgabo** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:05 am

[quote="QansaGabeyle"]Poor arabs. Getting bullied by 5 millions jews. Laughing

The same western countries whose have bases in the arab nations are the ones that back this israeli aggression.[/quote]

All Arabs need to do to show their muscle is to shut the Oil off and these western countries have no choice but to make Isreal stop their retialition....but Arabs are Arabs, they are waiting others muslims whether it be Turks, Indonesians, Somalis, etc to do their fighting.