Hezbollah Uses Cease-Fire to Rearm
Evidence is mounting that Hezbollah is taking advantage of the current cease-fire to regroup and prepare for another round of war against Israel.
The cease-fire apparently came at an opportune time for the terrorist group. Charles Krauthammer pointed out on August 18 that “there is no doubt that had Israel been permitted to proceed with the expanded offensive it began two days before the cease-fire, Israel would eventually have destroyed Hezbollah in the south, albeit at great cost to itself ….” The cease-fire came when Hezbollah needed the time to regroup.
The cease-fire makes no provision to disarm Hezbollah—it expects the group to do so voluntarily, which will never happen. What is happening instead is that Hezbollah is rearming. As debkafile reported August 25,
Long, heavily laden convoys are heading from the Syrian ports of Latakia and Tartus to the Lebanese Beqaa Valley, bringing Hezbollah its first heavy missiles—the Russian-made Scub-B adapted by Iran as Shahab-1, which has a 1-ton warhead and range of 350 km. A second track brings 3-5 Iranian air cargoes every day to Syrian air bases near the Lebanese border.
Consider the audacity of Iran in supplying Hezbollah—a terrorist group—with weapons to attack a UN member nation, Israel. Nevertheless, it apparently has nothing to fear for doing so: The United Nations will not respond to Iran at all, nor even prevent Ahmadinejad from supplying Hezbollah with weapons. Rather, the UN has “no operational plan to enforce the UN arms embargo which would entail stemming the heavy flow of Iranian arms shipments entering Lebanon day by day along two Syrian tracks” (ibid.).
Stratfor confirms that evidence points to small arms and anti-tank munitions finding their way into Hezbollah’s hands from Syria. On August 29, Stratfor reported:
Sources in Lebanon indicate Syrian arms shipments are passing into Lebanon. Mules, rather than vehicles, are moving small arms, ammunition and some anti-tank munitions over the Anti-Lebanon Mountains along the Lebanese-Syrian border, across the Bekaa Valley and up into the western mountains, particularly through the Greek Orthodox mountain village of Bteggrine. From here, with the assistance of the Syrian Social Nationalist party, the shipments can reach Hezbollah in the southern suburbs of Beirut, where they can be dispersed south. …
Many more arms are probably being stockpiled inside the Bekaa, Hezbollah’s main stronghold. … Syria has kept its border with Lebanon wide open, and has virulently refused to allow UN peacekeeping troops to deploy along the Lebanese-Syrian border. [Syria is] allowing Hezbollah to maintain supply routes past Lebanese soldiers patrolling the border ….
Anyone who views the current cease-fire in Lebanon as a good or even acceptable outcome does not understand the mentality of terrorists or the type of war they wage.
The reality is, even if Israel had completely uprooted Hezbollah from Lebanon, Israel’s true enemy would still continue waging war. The head of the snake is not Hezbollah; it is Iran. Based on biblical prophecies regarding an end-time Iran-led power, we expect that neither Israel nor the United States will take the sort of decisive action required to prevent the next round of war from starting shortly.
