Through US senator Lindsey Graham Israel has made renewed war threats against Lebanon at the pretext of confronting Hezbollah and Iran.
Graham said Tuesday following a trip to the Middle East that Israeli officials warned him and other lawmakers during his visit to Israel that “should Hezbollah continue to taunt Israel with its threats to assault the country with its growing arsenal of long-range missiles Israel would have to go to war according to Haaretz newspaper.
“They’ve told us in no uncertain terms that if this threat continues — they keep making rockets that can hit the airport and do a lot of damage to the State of Israel — they are going to have to go in” Graham was quoted as saying to reporters earlier this week.
“Southern Lebanon is where the next war is coming” Graham noted.
Speaking further of his meetings with Israeli officials Graham said that they had two major requests for American lawmakers “the first one was military support in the form of ‘ammunition ammunition ammunition’” and “the second was Washington’s backing should Israel have to resort to striking civilian targets in Lebanon where it believes Hezbollah is operating.”
Graham also referred to a report in January that claims that Iran was helping Hezbollah construct a precision weapons factory in Lebanon.
