Hezbollah Stronger Than Before -Peretz Attempts Cover-up

One of the tasks of the "New Improved, Extra Strength" UNIFIL force that has been in Lebanon since the end of this past summer is to ensure that all sides honor the "cease-fire" agreement. But of course being a force under the flag of the UN and comprised of Europeans they are more likely to listen to orders from the witches in the Shakespeare play Macbeth. "Fair is Foul, Foul is Fair"

Part of their agreement was to make sure that the Terrorist Organization Hezbollah disarms. Well with fair being foul as it were, Israel intelligence is reporting that Hezbollah is actually STRONGER than it was before this past summer's war. So much for the UN's UNIFIL force and so much for the having Elmer Olmert as your PM and protector. At least Shakespeare’s witches were right. Oy, what fools these mortals be.

Intelligence Chief: Hizbullah is Stronger than Before War
by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) Brig.-Gen. Yossi Beiditz, head of the IDF's Intelligence Wing Research Division, told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Hizbullah has "returned to its pre-war capabilities, and has even become stronger." Beiditz was asked more than once by committee members if he meant that Hizbullah was now stronger, and he responded in the affirmative - until Defense Minister Amir Peretz stepped in. Peretz said, "Hizbullah has not increased its strength, but merely its potential." Beiditz quickly agreed with Peretz, arousing a storm of protest from opposition MKs.

Cut to the scene with Peretz on a cliff talking to himself he is thinking "to lie or not to lie...that is the question. But Waiteth, tis the princes from Likud to say "something is rotten in the state of Denmark"

MK Limor Livnat (Likud) told the Maariv newspaper, "I view this with great gravity - first to know that Hizbullah is stronger than before the war, as Gen. Beiditz described, and also to know that the head of the IDF's Intelligence Wing Research Division gets in line with comments made to him by the Defense Minister. We asked Beiditz a few times about Hizbullah, and he said yes, Hizbullah has become stronger. He described the situation, and it is not correct that the Defense Minister should correct him."

MK Silvan Shalom, Israel's Foreign Minister from 2003 until 2006, also railed against Peretz's intervention. "If Hizbullah continues to get stronger than it was before the war," he said, "this proves that the war was a failure." Just a few days ago, Hizbullah terrorist chieftain Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah bragged publicly about the continuing smuggling of weapons into southern Lebanon. "We say this openly; after all, we didn't fight Israel with sticks, but with rockets," he said. "Israel doesn't know where we are hiding them." Nasrallah added that Hizbullah would not disarm, as called for in the ceasefire agreement ending last summer's war. Hizbullah fired some 4,000 Katyusha rockets at Israel last summer, killing 41 civilians (including 17 Arabs and Druze); 119 soldiers were also killed in the war. It was estimated that Hizbullah had not used even half of its rocket strength.

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