Sunday, June 7, 2009

Israel Fears Opposition Win in the Lebanese Elections


Al-Manar

"07/06/2009 Once again Israel interferes in the Lebanese internal affairs warning against a “Hezbollah win” while the Lebanese voters are heading to polling stations in the unprecedented general elections in Lebanon’s history on Sunday.

Israeli ministers warned that a victory by Lebanese national opposition, including Hezbollah, in Lebanon's elections would be a dangerous development for the region. "If Hezbollah wins the election, it will be very bad and will create another Iranian entity in the Middle East after Hamas," said Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, a member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party.

"Iran is trying to take over Lebanon and that would be a very negative development," he claimed. "The Iranian threat is gaining speed and obliges us, together with the moderate Arab states and the United States, to take action."

Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party said that if “Hezbollah's alliance” wins, "Lebanon will become a terror state." "We will have to think what we will do in such a situation, God forbid, once it happens," he said."

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