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Hezbollah says it will retaliate against Israel from Syria if the West intervenes. Naharnet picked up on Arab media reports. The source said the Hizbullah is seeking not to involve Lebanon with any “military initiative”…

Pesach Benson
September 3, 2013
12:00 am

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Hezbollah says it will retaliate against Israel from Syria if the West intervenes. Naharnet picked up on Arab media reports.

The source said the Hizbullah is seeking not to involve Lebanon with any “military initiative” it decided to take.

Great idea. Then the IDF can launch a preemptive attack on Hezbollah from Cyprus, Turkey or, perhaps even Iraq, so as not to involve Israel in this mess too.

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Tags: chemical weapons, Hezbollah, Syria, US intervention

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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