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Information on the 2006 Israeli - Hezbollah War

 

On July 12th 2006 Hezbollah terrorists crossed the border into Israel and attacked an Israeli patrol killing eight Israeli soldiers and kidnapping two Israeli soldiers. The Hezbollah also began launching rocket attacks against Israeli cities.

Note: Hezbollah is an Arabic word, and therefore has many different translated English spellings. The most common ones found in our sources include: Hezbollah and Hizballah. However, additional spellings also include: Hezbullah, Hezballah, Hizbullah, Hizbollah, etc. Please consider this while performing searches on the web.

 

Are the terrorists winning the PR war?

While the world focuses on the military and humanitarian aspects of Israel's war against this terrorist group, the Hezbollah also launched a sophisticated, well-planned PR campaign. This Hezbollah PR campaign doesn't spare any means, including sacrificing innocent life in order to gain world sympathy and present Israel in a bad light.

U.N. Incident

Are the terrorists winning the PR war?  While listening to the Secretary-General of the U.N. Kofi Annan's remarks on the unfortunate event where four U.N. peacekeepers died, one might tend to agree that the terrorists are successful. However, Lewis Mackenzie, a retired major-general who was the first commander of United Nations peacekeeping forces in Sarajevo, has shed some light on what really happened.

On July 18, one of the deceased peacemakers, Major Hess-von Kruedener had sent a number of his colleagues, including regimental officers such as Mackenzie, an e-mail describing what the situation was like at his location since the Israeli attacks began against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Mackenzie concludes from the e-mail that the U.N. peacemakers had Hezbollah fighters all over their position engaging the Israel Defense Forces and using the U.N. peacemakers as shields. This is a must-read article to better understand the methods the terrorists are using.

Click here to read Mackenzie's article.

 

Qana Incident

Are the terrorists winning the PR war?  Most of the media buys into the Hezbollah propaganada and presented this unfortunate incident as an Israeli deliberate aggression against civilians.  This is not the truth.  The facts are as follows:

  • Arab terrorists use the civilian population as human shields.  For example, the photo below portrays the Hamas terrorists attacking Israelis while surrounding themselves with children.

  • Israel gave an advance warning that they will attack Qana since the terrorist launched some 150 rockets from that town into Israel.  Israel asked all civilians to leave.

Video clips from Lebanon*:

* Source: IDF.

 

Read and watch the following reports on the war:

 

 

Information about the Hezbollah terrorist group

Fast facts:

Sources:

The Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism of the U.S. Department of State and,

The National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT)

  • Hezbollah (“Party of God”) was founded in 1982.
  • Hezbollah is an umbrella organization of various radical Islamic Shi'ite groups and organizations.
  • Hezbollah's stated objectives include the establishment of a Shiite theocracy in Lebanon, the destruction of Israel and the elimination of Western influences from the region.
  • Hezbollah receives substantial financial and philosophical support from Iran.
  • After the attacks of September 11th, Hezbollah is responsible for the next largest anti-American terrorist attack. In October 1983, a truck bomb killed 241 American Marines at the multinational force barracks in Beirut. The following year, a suicide bombing at the U.S. embassy in Beirut killed 17 Americans, including many of the embassy's CIA staff.
  • The Hezbollah is on the official U.S. list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
  • Hezbollah is thought to be responsible for attacks against US and Jewish targets in Africa, Sweden, Denmark, Thailand, Argentina and the UK. The 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires and the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires are the most well known attacks.

 

Additional information:

From the U.S. Department of State:

From the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT): http://www.tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=3101

 

 

A New Documentary - We Need Your Help

Israel's war against the Radical Islamic group Hezbollah is just a representation of a bigger issue the world is facing today.  We will hold several pre-release screenings of a new documentary about this issue.

About the new documentary:

From the creators of “Relentless”, comes a new film that will challenge the way you look at the world.

Almost 70 years ago, Europe found itself at war with one of the most sinister figures in modern history: Adolf Hitler. When the last bullet of World War II was fired, over 50 million people were dead, and countless countries were both physically and economically devastated. Hitler’s bloody struggle sought to forge the world anew, in the crucible of Nazi values. How could such a disaster occur? How could the West have overlooked the evil staring it in the face, for so long, before standing forcefully against it?

Today, we find ourselves confronted by a new enemy, also engaged in a violent struggle to transform our world. As we sleep in the comfort of our homes, a new evil rises against us. A new menace is threatening, with all the means at its disposal, to bow Western Civilization under the yoke of its values. That enemy is Radical Islam.

Using images from Arab TV, rarely seen in the West, the new documentary reveals an ‘insider's view' of the hatred the Radicals are teaching, their incitement of global jihad, and their goal of world domination. With the help of experts, including first-hand accounts from a former PLO terrorist, a Nazi youth commander, and the daughter of a martyred guerilla leader, the film shows, clearly, that the threat is real.
 

We need your help:

We will hold a several pre-release screenings in Minnesota to receive feedback about the film.  Would you like to participate?  Please e-mail to us at: NewFilm@MATmn.org and tell us that you would like to participate in the pre-release screening, please include your name and phone number.

 
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