Hezbollah sets conditions for agreement

As reported here, "Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said Saturday that the Islamic militant group will abide by a U.N. cease-fire resolution but will continue fighting as long as Israeli troops remained in south Lebanon.". Excuse me? You are going to abide by the UN cease fire resolution, but continue to fight until Israeli forces leave south Lebanon? Ah, yes, I see. That makes perfect non-sense. You cannot abide with a cease fire by continuing to fight, since a cease fire means you stop shooting!

But wait! It gets even better with this little nugget, as Nasrallah goes into a major pout with this. ""We will not be an obstacle to any (government) decision ... but our ministers will express reservations about articles that we consider unjust and unfair," he said." Those articles the Hezbollah ministers (they have two people on the Lebanese Cabinet, btw) presumably have "reservations" about are the articles calling for Hezbollah to be disarmed, which should have happened years ago. But, they want to continue to be a threat to the existence of Israel, and not having weapons to be able to do that must be what's "unjust and unfair", since Israel and Lebanon have a non-aggression pact in place, meaning that the official government of Lebanon won't work towards the destruction of Israel.

There's more. "The Shiite cleric said Hezbollah rocket strikes on northern Israel would end when Israel stopped airstrikes and other attacks on Lebanese civilians." Of course, he has this backwards, since Hezbollah has been targeting Israeli civilians (NO Israeli military facilities have so far been targeted by Hezbollah, with the only Israeli military casualties coming from direct fighting with Hezbollah, and not from rocket attacks), while Israel has been targeting members of Hezbollah who have been using Lebanese civilians as human shields.

And even more. "Nasrallah called continued resistance to the Israel offensive "our natural right" and predicted more hard fighting to come." After you precipitated this "adventure" with your cross border raid in which you killed eight Israeli's and captured two others, and fired off thousands of rockets, provoking Israel to attempt to recover their two soldiers and protect their national borders against your aggression, you say you have the "natural right" to "resist"? It is Israel that has the natural right to defend itself against you, and resist your aggression.

Last but not least, in this demented attempt to gain sympathy, is this. ""We must not make a mistake, not in the resistance, the government or the people, and believe that the war has ended. The war has not ended. There have been continued strikes and continued casualties," he said. "Today nothing has changed and it appears tomorrow nothing will change," he said." He's right in saying that the war hasn't ended, and that nothing has changed, since the cease fire resolution has not yet gone into effect, and that Hezbollah has not stopped firing rockets at Israeli civilians. As long as Hezbollah continues to fight, so will Israel. The mistake has already been made, however, in that Hezbollah brought all of this on their own heads by their own actions (at the likely instigation of Iran). The other mistake made was believing that the Lebanese government and the the people of Lebanon would support the aggression of Hezbollah, which has been abundantly clear from the beginning that the majority of neither have.