Hezbollah: Israel’s Northern Menace

So here is terrorist group enabled by Syria and one of the axis of evil - Iran.
These have attacked the USA at embassies and massively engaged Israel. Yet the UN impotently stands by as Hezbollah (a shi'ite entity) attempts to control a portion of south Lebennon to the detriment of local affairs and world peace due to their goal of wiping Israel off the map. Come on Democratic Western culture rise up to stifle this law-breaking, this abomination to peace. WAKE UP! (More at http://www.slantright.com)
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By John Waage
CBN News Sr. Analyst
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/news/051114a.asp


CBN.com – GHAJAR, Israel- When the leader of the terrorist group Hezbollah called for Israel's destruction last month, he did not send a tape to al Jazeera, like al-Qaeda does.

He said it in broad daylight, from his home in Lebanon.
Despite the global war on terror, Hezbollah is one group that is able to defy the U.S., and the United Nations, with its low-grade war against Israel.
Suicide bombings, kidnapping, drug cartels, and incitement: the Islamic radical group Hezbollah does it all from its base in Lebanon. In much of the Muslim world, it is hailed as a cornerstone in the Universal Jihadist Movement against Israel and the West.

Middle East analyst Eli Karmon stated, “From Algeria to Pakistan, we see that they consider Hezbollah as a very important player in the Arab and Middle Eastern arena, because they defeated -- according to their evaluation -- the Israeli Defense Force.”

Karmon is referring to Hezbollah's success in driving Israel out of south Lebanon more than five years ago. Hezbollah's terror tactics against civilians and Israeli troops in Lebanon provided a road map for Palestinian terrorist groups. Those groups claim they forced Israel out of the Gaza Strip this summer.

To this day, Hezbollah leaders gloat over their success. "More than 12,000 rockets capable of hitting Israel,” said Hezbollah leader Sheik Nasrallah. “All of the north of occupied Palestine -- its settlements, airports, seaports, fields, factories, and farms-- is under the feet and hands of the Islamic resistance.”

Hezbollah has mostly kept its guns and rockets quiet in the past few months, as the leaders assess their role in Lebanon, following Syria's military pullout earlier this year. But it continues to be a menace to Israel on its northern border and in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
When standing in the border town of Ghajar, Israel, and Hezbollah are separated by literally one block. To the right is Lebanon, to the left is Israel, and that is an obvious point of concern for those guarding against border infiltration.

Border infiltration is important because some experts estimate that Hezbollah may be quietly orchestrating as much as 70 percent of the Palestinian terrorist activities coming from the West Bank and Gaza.
Karmon remarked, “I see Hezbollah organizing some big operations under deep Palestinian cover, in order not to be identified with it.”

Now that Syria is largely out of Lebanon, Hezbollah is under closer scrutiny because of a UN resolution, Resolution 1559, which calls for all military groups in Lebanon except the Lebanese forces to give up their weapons.
Here is Hezbollah's answer: “We will consider any hand that tries to get our weapons as an Israeli hand and we will chop it off,” said Nasrallah.
Hezbollah's goals are clear: The first is to destroy Israel, the second is to "cleanse" the region of American and western influence. Hezbollah has killed more Americans than any other terrorist group except al-Qaeda.
Although Hezbollah is bankrolled by the mullahs in Iran, it also has a big hand in the Lebanese drug trade, smuggling drugs across the Israeli border as part of its social war against Israel.

Israeli border police work closely with the army to fight drug smuggling and other incursions into Israel by Hezbollah. From this intelligence center, military and police track their movements.

Footage shot by a special Israeli police drug unit, Lebanese gunmen, under Hezbollah cover, are shown throwing drugs across the border to traffickers in Israel.

Lieutenant Colonel Yaki Odem is in charge of the drug unit. He said Hezbollah uses the drugs as bait to get Israelis to give up military information.

“The Israeli drug dealers, they get the drugs one, two, three times, and then Hezbollah stopped (giving) the drugs. And then they asked the Israeli drug dealers to get intelligence on what's going on in our army,” Odem said.
Some video footage from earlier this year showed four Israeli Muslims being arrested for leaking military information to Hezbollah in exchange for drugs.

Hezbollah's leaders have made it clear they will keep up their jihad against Israel and the West for as long as they are allowed. And because their spiritual and financial roots are in Tehran, Karmon says that a blow against Hezbollah would be a major setback for Iran.

Karmon remarked, “The moment the Syrian regime will change and Hezbollah will be disarmed, this will weaken enormously the Iranian religious regime.”

In the meantime, Israel's hi-tech monitors will keep watch on the group that considers itself the vanguard of Israel's enemies.