The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to make its intentions abundantly clear. Barack Obama may have thought that he bought them off with the Iran nuclear deal. He didn’t.
“Iranian flag joins array of enemy symbols planted on Lebanon border,” by Seth J. Frantzman, Jerusalem Post, June 28, 2017:
Lebanon seems to be having a flag sale.
Iranian flags, Hezbollah, UN, Spanish, Palestinian flags. They are all flying provocatively along the border with the northern Israeli community of Metulla.
Meters from the fence that separates the countries, not far from the site of a 1985 terrorist attack, Hezbollah has festooned the roads with signs of its presence. It’s purposely done so Israeli residents can see the flags and the billboards next to them. In Metulla there is a memorial for the 12 Israeli soldiers killed in the March 10, 1985, suicide bombing, while just across the border a huge billboard celebrates the massacre.
I spent Tuesday touring the Lebanese and Syrian borders to see the tense situation in the north of the country. The flags across the border seemed representative of the situation that prevails today. Next to the Hezbollah flags is a small post that has a UN logo. Near it the Amal Shia Lebanese movement has erected a large banner reading “To he of pure hands and a generous soul, thank you Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri.”
(Berri is also the leader of Amal.) On the banner is the Iranian flag. Here is a visible presence of Iran just a stone’s throw from Israel. It’s not the only Iranian symbol here.
On a hill overlooking houses being constructed in Metulla is another huge poster with a photo of the Dome of the Rock. The face of Ayatollah Khomeini glowers down over the dome and Hezbollah has written: “We are coming” in Hebrew and Arabic.
They’ve put a giant Palestinian flag next to the poster. The message is clear, and disconcerting….
Sarah says
I have to say, in a spat between Iran and Israel, my money is on the Jewish nag. That is not a nation, nor a people that Iran or anyone else really want to push too far.
The far reaching consequences of this, though, mean that us Westerner’s get dragged in. I’m all for supporting Israel and I’m not remotely tolerant of any Islamic hellhole (sorry, I meant ‘country’) and their constant shrieking and braying about the Jews and Israel, but I certainly don’t want WW3.
I expect, if this all goes down and Iran wind up nuking ANYONE – that Barack Goddamn Obama gets thrown in the docks for war crimes. He damn well better be. The useless POS was so concerned about his ‘legacy’ – well mate, global nuclear war with the nutcase Iranian’s at the helm is about to be your legacy.
The blood of hundreds of millions, if not billions will be on his smug hands. He damn well better be charged and convicted for war crimes.
Tom says
If the Iranian nuclear program is not stopped then it may be the only choice for Isreal to premptively strike Iran with a nuclear warhead.
It is coming down to survival or elimination for Isreal, a choice that no nation should have to make, and when it comes to the moment of choice, I hope that Isreal has a strong leader, one who can make the decision for his/ her people without hesitation.
Iran is trying to shepherd in the apocalypse as foretold so that their 13th Imam can sweep them all to paradise.
Sarah says
I strongly agree that no nation should be forced into that choice.
As for Iran and their magical Imam, I have little time or empathy for them. If they wish to pick through the rubble of their nation, to look for him, then so be it. I would hope that the poor survivors were more focused on the whole ‘Let’s not let this rot ever happen, ever again’. And ditch the moronic ideology that got them into that horrible outcome to begin with.
Somehow, I can just picture them, shrieking for Allah amongst the radioactive rocks. It just wouldn’t surprise me.
Oray says
“The far reaching consequences of this, though, mean that us Westerner’s get dragged in.”
Never happened before, and will almost certainly never happen in the future. Throughout all our wars WE STOOD ALONE. NO ONE ever came to our help, even though we were on the brink of annihilation several times, fighting against armies superior both in equipment and numbers. The only thing the westerners (i.e. USA) will have to do is help us with weapons in a time of need (as you did in the past, especially in the Yom Kippur war, and for that we are grateful). Today we’re stronger than ever before. We will deal with our enemies ourselves, thank you very much.
The only way you would get dragged in is if Iran decides to drag you in by bombing your bases, but I don’t think they’d be stupid enough to pick up a fight with little Satan and big Satan simultaneously. And by the time we’re done with them there will be nothing left for big Satan.
gravenimage says
I’m an American, and I stand with Israel.
Sarah says
I think you will find that many of us, stand wholeheartedly with Israel. There are a LOT of Westerners’ who are pro-Israel and who are sick to death of the hypocritical bullshit from Palestine and the warmongering braying from the Islamic world.
My point was that we NEED to step in and help, should Iran decide to lob a few nukes over the border – but I don’t want it to get to that, because A) it means Israel getting nuked and B) countess Westerners dying as well as Israeli’s, trying to help Israel defend themselves against marauding, hate filled Muslims.
To be Jewish is to be Western. Our culture’s are linked and have been for countless years now. The Jewish people have suffered horrendously for far too long at the hands of so many, Westerners included. But we owe so much for our civilization today, to the Jewish people. And a lot of us recognize this.
Defending Israel and helping to keep Israel and its inhabitants safe is as much a duty of any Western nation, if it were a fellow Western nation at sincere risk of this kind of attack. You are not alone.
Godwin says
They are welcome any time n the IDF will blast them into pieces for the religion of peace/pieces. OK ? Even before they come they have all their missiles blasted into pieces in Syria.
WPM says
Cute little flag in the rocks will give snipers some target practice to shot at anything alive near it.
marty says
Hopefully, these cowards and sociopaths are coming with the intention to attain martyrdom because that is all they will achieve.
common sense says
Obama only fueled Islamic barbarians with the nuke deal and billions of dollars. Everyone knows (especially the anti American regressive left) Barry is an enemy of our nation, his own words, policy and evil deeds prove it.
Can’t wait until ‘fast and furious’ is investigated.
Lynch must be prosecuted-
https://aclj.org/government-corruption/investigate-former-attorney-general-lynch?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=d-06292017_top-GC_seg-NO_typ-PT
gravenimage says
Yes–Obama did nothing but embolden Iran with his suicidal nuke deal.
Buford says
These Demonic sub human creatures need to be annihilated world wide it’s too bad the Crusaders did not wipe these Monsters out 800 years ago
robert saunders says
this is not news to the Israelis!