Our Dead are in Jannah, Their Dead are in the Hellfire

Alhumdulillah, nine Israelis were killed and 30 others injured when a volley of Katyusha rockets slammed into the coastal city of Haifa, occupied since 1948, fired by the Lebanese Hizbullah party in reprisal to Israeli indiscriminate raids on civilian and infrastructural targets in Lebanon.

The words of General Secretary of Hizballah, Hassan Nasrallah from 14 July 2006 are telling.

"The equation has now changed. I will not say today that if you strike Beirut, we will strike Haifa. I will not tell you that if you hit the south Beirut suburbs, we will hit Haifa. You wanted to get rid of that equation, so now we and you have got rid of it in actuality. You wanted open warfare, and we are going into open warfare. We are ready for it, a war on every level. To Haifa, and, believe me, to beyond Haifa, and to beyond beyond Haifa. Not only we will be paying a price. Not only our houses will be destroyed. Not only our children will be killed. Not only our people will be displaced. Those days are past. That was how it was before 1982, and before the year 2000."

Read the whole statement here

Meanwhile Ilan Pappe has written an excellent piece on the real motivations behind Israel's invasion of Lebanon and its need for a high-intensity conflict.