Israel says Russian arms brought it failure in war with Hizbollah
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, Aug 19, IRNA
Israel-Defeat-Press
Israel claims that the use of Russian arms by Lebanese Islamic Resistance forces had been the reason for its defeat in the war, said a Russian daily.
"Israel, that is facing wide-scale domestic criticism for sustaining heavy and bizarre fatalities and damage in its war with Lebanon, blames the use of Russian arms by the Islamic Resistance Movement as the reason for the fiasco," according to Russian daily Kommersant.
Israeli officials blame Russian anti-tanks for destruction of sophisticated Israeli tanks, wrote the Russian newspaper, adding that the charges are most likely a sort of publicity to calm down public opinion in Israel.
Kommersant said Israeli defense minister, who said such a resistance on Hizbollah's part was unprecedented, has been subject to more criticism and charged to be incompetent.
The newspaper referred to results of an opinion poll conducted by Smith Research Foundation in Israel, which reflected that 63 percent of the occupied territory residents did not approve their government's performance.
Kommersant said that furthermore, a poll result, conducted by Haaretz, showed 60 percent of those polled called for resignation of Zionist prime minister, defense minister and head of the joint army staff.
The daily in conclusion referred to Russia's rejection of such charges by Israel, saying that Israel has no evidence to substantiate authenticity of the claim.
The Zionist regime of Israel conducted wide-scale air, sea and ground raids on Lebanon over the past 34 days. Finding itself incapable of directly facing the Hizbollah combatants, Israel bombarded residential areas, martyring about 1,200 people, injuring about 3,600 others and rendering one million Lebanese people homeless.
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