Unforeseen?

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Zee'vi Reprise - - Yet again!!

Hassan Nasrallah, the head, purported to be, of Hezbollah, has expressed "surprise" that the latest round of fighting in Lebanon occurred as it did.

Hostilities commencing with the capture [kidnapping] of two Israeli soldiers.

Nasrallah claims that what happened [the war], was totally unexpected.

"'We did not think, even 1 percent, that the capture would lead to a war at this time and of this magnitude. You ask me, if I had known on July 11 ... that the operation would lead to such a war, would I do it? I say no, absolutely not,' he said in an interview with Lebanon's New TV station."

Hassan should have paid more heed to the comments of the person I reasonably infer to be Rehavam Zee'vi:

"Let them quake. And let them call us a mad-dog nation. Let them realize that we're a wild country, deadly and dangerous to everyone around, awful, crazy, capable of suddenly going nuts because they murdered one of our kids - - even one! . . . that if they shoot one of our ambassadors, or even a consul, or even the attache' in charge of stamp collecting, we're capable of starting, suddenly, just for the hell of it, before breakfast, World War Three."

"They have the oil, but we have the matches" - - Ariel Sharon.

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