Friday's action came after a threat from Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah to target the Israeli city of Tel Aviv if Israel attacked central Beirut.
Security sources in Israel told a BBC correspondent that "if Tel Aviv was hit by Hezbollah rockets, Israel would target infrastructure in Lebanon".
And how this is different that the previous 3 weeks of fighting...? Those bastard Israelis have been bombing the Lebanese infrastructure since day 1. What this statement really means is that Israel will begin to kill even more civilians. Terrorist Israeli bastards! And damn the Bush administration to hell for giving them the weapons to do it - a new shipment of bunker buster bombs which are wiping out entire city blocks in Beirut and parts of southern lebanon!
In his televised speech Sheikh Nasrallah also said that Hezbollah would end its rocket attacks if Israel stopped attacking what he called civilian areas in Lebanon.
Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Dan Gillerman said that suggestion was "a sign of weakness" and that Hezbollah might be "looking for a way out".
No, this isn't a sign of weakness. Israel hasn't been killing Hezbollah fighters, they've been killing civilians this entire time. Israel has made it clear that they are trying to cause as much destruction and death as possible, while killing Lebanese civilians indiscriminantly and crippling the Lebanese economy. Meanwhile, the people who are suffering the most because of Israel's grossly disproportionate aggression are ordinary Lebanese citizens, not Hezbollah fighters.
They left out the bit where Hassan Nasrallah then said that he wanted the bombing to stop so they can fight each other on the ground. But Israel already lost that fight once before, and they know from past experience that they wouldn't be able to sustain the casualties.
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