DEATH THREAT~Israeli Minister Says: Hezbollah chief 'deserves to die'

Rhetorical Question: So how come Israel can make such a statement and call for those against this man to kill him, yet when Iranians make those statements against Israel, Israel calls for the destruction of Iran.
Just sayin.........

two reports below:

press tv: Israeli Transport Minister Yisrael Katz calls for the assassination of the chief of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah.

"Nasrallah deserves death and I hope that those who know what to do with him will act and give him what he deserves," AFP quoted the Israeli minister as saying on Sunday.

Kaztz is a close aide of hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahou.

Nasrallah's popularity in the world especially Muslim countries hit record high after a 33-day war between Israel and Hezbollah. Hezbollah managed to successfully resist against the well-equipped Israeli military.

Israeli military offensive killed more than 1,200 Lebanese, mostly women and children.

The remarks by the Israeli minister is indicative of how Israel is panicked by the Hezbollah leader's political clout and the movement's military might.

Recently a top Israeli official Major-General Amos Yadlin said that Hezbollah has not given up plans to avenge the assassination of its military commander Imad Mughniyeh.

Mughniyeh was killed in a February 2008 car bombing in Damascus. While Israel denies any involvement in the attack, Hezbollah says it has evidence of Israel's role in the assassination.


Israel Says: Hezbollah chief 'deserves to die'

JERUSALEM (AFP) An Israeli cabinet minister said on Sunday that Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanon's Shiite fundmentalist movement Hezbollah and a nemesis of Israel, deserved to die.

"Nasrallah deserves death and I hope that those who know what to do with him will act and give him what he deserves," said Transport Minister Yisrael Katz, who is close to hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israel and Hezbollah fought a devastating war in Lebanon in 2006 after the Shiite militia's guerrillas seized two Israeli soldiers in a deadly cross-border raid.

The 34-day war killed more than 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and more than 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers, and is widely considered in the Jewish state to have been a failure.

"We will soon set out a new policy. We should erect a wall between the Gaza Strip and Israel and we should no longer exercise the slightest responsibility for civil affairs in the Gaza Strip, such as allowing the passage of merchandise."

Israel has kept Gaza largely sealed to all but essential humanitarian goods since Hamas, an Islamist movement pledged to the destruction of the Jewish state.

UNBELIEVABLE~Israel Targets Haaretz!!!

The JOKE of Israel being a "democracy" becomes even more ridiculous. Israel cannot stand any criticism what so ever. They have hundreds of organisations who work to silence, censor and shut down any forms of media that dares to criticize Israel or its genocidal actions. Now they are coming for one of their own that dared to question Israel, the leftist paper Haaretz is the next target of Israel's right wingnut neocon racists. Just like they target youtube, wiki, message boards, television, British MP's, Charles Freeman and forms of critisizm, now they will "teach Haaretz a lesson"

Reservists Call to Investigate Haaretz

(IsraelNN.com) Forty-six IDF reservists who fought in Operation Cast Lead in Gaza have sent a letter to Attorney General Menachem Mazuz asking him to investigate the Hebrew-language daily Haaretz for slander. The reservists have accused the paper of publishing serious accusations against IDF soldiers without taking the time to examine the claims.

Haaretz published testimony from two reservists who fought in Gaza who claimed to have witnessed war crimes, including the shooting of an innocent woman and her children. However, after the claims had gained worldwide media coverage, the two clarified that they had not witnessed the incidents in question, but rather had heard about them from others

The soldiers clarified that they are not against the publication of articles criticizing IDF actions or policies. “We believe that public discourse is critical to our society... We believe that whenever soldiers are found to have violated orders or behaved immorally, in Cast Lead or any other operation, the problem should be given public exposure and dealt with,” they wrote.

"However, this does not justify or permit the serious and sweeping accusations against IDF combat soldiers as a group as they appeared in Haaretz,” the letter continued.

The purpose of investigating Haaretz for slander would be to show the media as a whole “that not everything is permitted... that one cannot spread falsehoods, slander and lies in the name of free speech; that in Israel in 2009 blood libels are not allowed,” the group concluded.