Israeli Drill Simulates Combat on Fronts with Syria, Lebanon
Israel's military has conducted a drill to prepare for simultaneous combat along its northern frontier with Syria and Lebanon.
It said Wednesday the two-week exercise that combined air, ground and naval forces was aimed at "preparing troops for a long-term multi-front conflict."
Northern Command chief Aviv Kochavi said it showed how the military is able to "implement operational plans in all arenas."
On the Syrian frontier, Israel has been warily watching as insurgents battle forces loyal to President Bashar Assad. Israel and Syria are bitter enemies but Assad kept the border quiet for decades.
Israel, which fought a monthlong war against Hizbullah in 2006, said Wednesday it thwarted a plot by Hizbullah to recruit Palestinians to attack Israelis.
Forces "apprehended a terror cell funded and guided by Hizbullah", an army statement said, adding the cell was "plotting a shooting attack."
It said the cell was based in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank and was made up of Palestinians.
The leader of the five-person cell was recruited online by Jawad Nasrallah, son of Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the army charged.
over 9 years
are you going to refer to the gvt and ask their approval before launching anything or as usual make you war taking lebanese hostages of your unilateral decisions? LOL
over 9 years
ask who? salam? might as well ask saudi directly
over 9 years
there is an institution in Lebanon in case you forgot that is called the government... like it or not it represents the country....
but we know how you just SPIT on lebanese institutions and never respect them when it is against your interests...
you clearly prefer to be outlaws than respect the country's institutions whoever is in charge....
over 9 years
these "institutions" you hypocritically pretend to uphold are derelict, either non-existent, non-functioning, or non-legitimate. A parliament we didn't elect, a cabinet full of crooks (the minister of justice himself spat in the face of institutions when he mutinied against Baroud and shows overt support to groups like Nusra, what kind of sick joke is that?), and a empty presidential seat. Where are the institutions we're supposed to look up to, let alone rely on? Let them pick up the trash in the streets if they can, already that seems like too big a challenge for them.
And besides, with M14 elements in the government who are openly acting like pawns to the sauds, who themselves have been more and more openly revealing how cosy they really are with israel and isis, there is no way the fate of Lebanon is going to rest between their hands. Morals, values, and real patriotism come before simply obeying corrupt crooks just because they managed to cheat their way to seats of power.
over 9 years
and you pretend to want to build a state while at the same time not wanting to follow the laws....
idiot you are!
then anyone in this country can do whatever they want and disobey laws as the gvt does not please them... LOL
anyone now can kill, traffic drugs, steal because he does not like the gvt...
you arguments just prove that you will always find excuses to NEVER obey the state and you have NO respect in Lebanon and its constitution....
tfeh on you and your disrespect in this country, lowlife traitor you are....
over 9 years
your definiton of a government is a dictatorship syrian style....
a state that only takes into account hezbis views, all the rest is just non valid because you say so!
tfeh on you, braindead animal you are...
over 9 years
you're simply an idiot, and i'm not saying this as an insult, but as an observation of a fact. you're failure to understand what i posted above be otherwise explained, expect by pure and total hypocrisy.
over 9 years
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over 9 years
we know your hypocrit double hezbi standards.... when the PM takes a decision hezbis cry that it must be referred to the cabinet and rspect the institutions, but when it pleases them like you no cabinet exists...
pityfyul moooowaten
prepare the mass evacuation procedures, next war might be your last.