Re: Israeli Premier and Saudi Said to Hold Secret Meeting

[Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers@xxxxxxxxx>]

I responded to something:
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> > Has Hasan Nasrallah said one way or another about where the soldiers
> > were captured?
>
> .
>
> Everything I've heard is non-committal, but it's nice of the Times to 
> run it as fact.
>
> This is how Stan Goff put it... bluntly:
>
> âThe border of Southern Lebanon and Israel is a seamless web of 
> intervisible Israeli outposts with night vision devices, tied together 
> with ground surveillance radar, plowed-flat and raked daily to see 
> footprints, and backed by quick reaction forces. Israelis routinely 
> make incursive patrols into Lebanon. It is nearly impossible for an 
> organized group of Hezbolla or anyone else to cross the border south, 
> much less capture prisoners there. The very notion that this was an 
> incursion INTO Israel is propped up solely by the credulity of the 
> general public that knows nothing about military operations. In 
> reality, the idea is as ludicrous as the Easter Bunny.â
.
I want to add to this.

*First,* there will be no "fact-telling".

No one on the Lebanese side of the equation is going to say anything 
remotely like "We captured the IDF soldiers on our territory" simply 
because it would indicate their intel capabilities if it were true, and 
this is an ongoing low-intensity *war*, not a therapy group.

Bragging, or even being straightforward in answering questions gets 
people killed.

Who needs to know where they were captured... Why should it matter?

In the court of world opinion, minds are already made up, despite any 
"facts".

Further, the IDF seemed AMAZED AND APPALLED that Hizbollah had night 
vision equipment (run of the mill, literally available everywhere... at 
the local sporting good store) and computer software capable of using 
the vision equipment's coordinate system for targeting (*not* run of the 
mill... UN issued, although there was no indication whatsoever that the 
software was actually in use).

One pair of night vision binoculars, a laptop... unused software, and 
all of a sudden one of the most technologically advanced armies in the 
world (IDF) is up in arms, appalled, mortified! That's just got to tell 
you something about the *known* intel capability of the Hizbollah and 
the Lebanese miltary.

OTOH, How much money does Israel spend every year on purchase and 
development of the highest of high tech weaponry and spying equipment?  
High tech propaganda mills? ... planted stories in the world media... 
specialized internet services that give the Israeli blogger "true 
believers" a heads-up, and a way to slam anyone on the internet that 
opposes the official story?

Brian is duping himself by suggesting that even a *flea* could have 
crossed into Israel from Lebanon without being immediately noticed, 
hunted down, and killed.

Rationalizations usually follow being duped, if only to avoid embarrassment.

Leigh
http://leighm.net/