Syrian president Bashar al Assad, the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Hizbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah met in Damascus to plan counter-attacks against Israel in the event of war. This occurred in the shadow of Hizbollah’s alleged stealth weapons accumulation:
“It’s a bizarre anomaly,” Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak told American officials in Washington last Friday. “Lebanon is a member of the UN and is also now a member of the UN Security Council. But Lebanon has also a “private” army, not subordinated to the state and this militia has an arsenal of 45,000 missiles and rockets that can hit targets anywhere in Israel. We cannot accept this. We consider the government of Lebanon and the country’s infrastructure as part of the equation with which Israel is confronted.”
The tension seems to be rising, which may be why oil prices have shot up to $80. Of course, the expectation is that physical confrontation is avoided. However, history tells us that anything could happen.
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