There doesn’t appear to be anything behind it beyond the usual random scare-mongering, but US State Department coordinator Daniel Benjamin has warned today of a possible Hezbollah attack.
“We assess that Hezbollah could attack in Europe or elsewhere at any time,” Benjamin said, in an apparent guess of what might theoretically happen at some point in history.
He went on to say that Hezbollah has “a presence in Europe” and that it might conceivably move against Israel or some other nation for targeting Iran either in Europe or some other place on the planet.
Other than a handful of unproven allegations Hezbollah has shown little interest in operations outside of Lebanon and its immediate vicinity, and has never shown any particular interest in launching attacks inside Europe.
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Stating the the obvious – yes, Hezbollah could attack anywhere in Europe or elsewhere, but so to could the Klingons (and I'm not referring to dingleberries). But have they any prior history of doing so? Not that I know of.
Klingons? No. But you forgot about the Romulans. First you have to toss out all that you know, and logic for that matter, and "reboot" the narrative and then suddenly "shazam!"…. it's a brand new story.
Rhetoric and Rhetoric again.., now the Europeans pissing their pants starting to kill muslims all over Europe.., thinking that Hindus are muslim so is Muslims are Muslims and Hezbollah must be the most dangerous one of them all.., not knowing that what their government did in Libya was to help the barbarians to kill Libyans blaming it on the regime, not knowing that their government is helping jihadists in Syria killing peoples blaming it on the Syrian government. But is a good start dividing nations by their religious, is a good notion that US and EU are democracy and rest of the world is consist of nothing but bad people, so in the end they all need to be killed by the western civilized governments as US and EU, especially by the Swedish NEO Fascism.
I wish the Klingons or the Romulans would park one of their battlecruisers in orbit directly over Israel. A few photon torpedoes and a couple of phaser shots oughta do it.
So what? The US could attack Europe as well. Am I getting older or these statements are so out of touch with reality?
Why should they attack ? Monopol of WARS OF AGGRESSION is strongly in hands of Internacional Zionism, 2 main players – Israel and US!!! Unchalenged level of destruction, murder and horrors of wars…Till bitter end for all…because they are not finished yet…
Wll anybody survive on planet?, will any record of "insanity in our days" be left for remains of humanity?
peter czech
Why should they attack ? Monopol of WARS OF AGGRESSION is strongly in hands of Internacional Zionism, 2 main players – Israel and US!!! Unchalenged level of destruction, murder and horrors of wars…Till bitter end for all…because they are not finished yet…peter czech
No Hezbollah is not the US military.The US is the king of bombing and killing people in foreign lands.
Scare tactics.
Why should they attack ? Monopol of WARS OF AGGRESSION is strongly in hands of Internacional Zionism, 2 main players – Israel and US!!! Unchalenged level of destruction, murder and horrors of wars…Till bitter end for all…because they are not finished yet…
Again, this is merely the PR prelude to the Israeli attack on Hizballah which will be coordinated with the upcoming US/NATO/Turkey attack on Syria…
Benjamin’s record shows he’s (yet another) Zionista who pimps the myth that violence is endemic to Islam (but not Judaism or Christianity, of course). He also sees any challenge to Israel’s hegemony as an existential threat to Israel. And of course, he pimps the myth that Israel is our ally when the demonstrable truth is we are THEIR ally but they are not ours. There is no hope for a change is foreign policy while people who think like this are in power.