From Ha’aretz:
The U.S. is concerned that the continued flow of arms to the Hezbollah militant organization could prompt a war between Israel and Lebanon, State Department official Jeff Feltman said in remarks published Sunday by the London-based Al-Hayat daily.
Feltman, who serves as Assistant Secretary of U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, told the daily that the U.S. had no evidence of any Israeli plan to attack its northern neighbor.
Nevertheless, Feltman said he was growing increasingly worried by reports describing the quantity and types of weapons being smuggled to the terrorist organization in clear violation of United Nations Resolution 1701, which put an end to the 2006 war.
The UN resolution clearly demanded a weapons-free south Lebanon, said Feltman, but the world had yet to see that put into play.
What does this mean? The world is too busy criticizing Israel over Operation Cast Lead to notice the true cause of war in the Middle East. It is not the small country trying to protect itself from terrorism, it is the terrorist group in Southern Lebanon and the terrorist group that violently took over the Gaza Strip that is causing the violence.
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