Hizb'Allah rocket (FAHJR-5) fired within 30 miles of Tel Aviv. Israel launches new air strikes, taking out 4 bridges to cut off supply line between Beruit and Syria.
Thousands in Iraq rally in support of Hizb'Allah.
 AP
Israeli jets drop flares off the Lebanon coast near Tyre.
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Hezbollah
rockets hit near town 50 miles south of Lebanese border; Lebanese
officials say Israeli jets killed 28 civilians in attack on farm
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Israel has targeted road bridges north of BeirutFRIDAY 4 AUGUST
Israeli air strikes damage bridges along a highway providing a key aid route into Lebanon, from Arida on the Syrian borderMore than 20 people - thought to be farm workers - are killed in an Israeli air strike near the village of Qaa, in north eastern Lebanon near the border with SyriaTwo Israeli civilians die in the village of Mughar and in Kiryat Shmona as Hezbollah rocket attacks continue - at one point more than 40 are fired in half an hourAt least five people are killed in Israeli air raids on bridges over the main road heading north of the Lebanese capital to Syria, with other air strikes on the town of Jounieh north of Beirut and the suburb of Ouzai in the south of the capitalTwo Israeli soldiers are killed amid continuing clashes in southern Lebanon, including around or near Markaba, Ait al-Shaab and NaquoraIsraeli warships shell the southern Beirut suburbs of Haret Hreik and RoweissTHURSDAY 3 AUGUST
More than 100 Hezbollah rockets are fired at targets in northern Israel, killing seven in Maalot and AcreFighting between Israeli ground forces and Hezbollah continues in many areas along the border of southern Lebanon, reportedly up to and beyond the village of Majdel ZounAfter carrying out 70 raids on Lebanon overnight, Israeli aircraft resume attacks on the capital, Beirut, hitting the southern suburb of Dahieh, a Hezbollah strongholdAir strikes also take place against a bridge in the northern Akaar region, roads near the border with Syria, plus targets in the Bekaa Valley and around the southern town of NabatiyehIn Taibe three members of the same family are killed when an Israeli missile hit their home, according to Lebanese security officials
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UPDATED: This is Bush’s defining moment. This is an historical crossroads. Iran and it’s foreign legions have a plan. They have a plan to hit Tel Aviv, to hit Jerusalem. They know Israel is going to respond to this barrage of attacks. What choice does it have? So the Iran and Islamics will use that as their excuse? When did they ever need an excuse?
They have a plan. Israel is reacting. Israel is reacting to a planned strategy of attack. It is Israel that is the one the defensive. It is Israel that is absorbing the missiles inevitably meant for the Great Satan.
(H/T Betsy's Page) Victor Davis Hanson looks at the pattern of appeasement today against Islamic terrorists. He compares the mood of denial now to that of the 1930s.
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Then click on over and read Clifford May's essay on how the terrorists are so canny at manipulating opinion in the West.
Baghdad rally (H/T LGF)
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Tens of thousands of Shiites thronged a Baghdad slum Friday to show support for Hezbollah as Arab anger toward Israel mounted on the Muslim holy day. Such protests have even reached Saudi Arabia, where public discontent is rare.
In the most violent demonstration, about 100 people threw stones and a firebomb at the British Embassy in Tehran, damaging the building but harming nobody as they accused Britain and the United States of being accomplices in Israel's fight against Hezbollah, a Shiite group in Lebanon that is backed by Persian Iran
Even Sunni Muslim demonstrators took to the streets of Damascus, Cairo and Amman. But their numbers were dwarfed by the huge Shiite turnout in Baghdad, organized by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
Crowds of al-Sadr supporters from across Crowds of al-Sadr supporters from across Iraq's Shiite heartland converged on the capital's Sadr City district, chanting "Death to Israel, Death to America" in the biggest pro-Hezbollah rally since the conflict began July 12." name="context" />
Iraq's Shiite heartland converged on the capital's Sadr City district, chanting "Death to Israel, Death to America" in the biggest pro-Hezbollah rally since the conflict began July 12.
Demonstrators, wearing white shrouds symbolizing willingness to die for Hezbollah, waved the guerrillas' banner and chanted slogans in support of their leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah.
"Allah, Allah, give victory to Hassan Nasrallah," the crowd chanted before burning Israeli and American flags.
Organizers and local police said hundreds of thousands attended the rally, but the U.S. military later estimated the crowd at 14,000. Associated Press reporters at the scene thought attendance was at least in the tens of thousands during the high point of the march.
The rally went off peacefully — a remarkable achievement in a city where bombings and shootings are an everyday occurrence. Sadr City is under the effective control of the cleric's Mahdi Army militia, which maintains its own security network.
I thought this story was wrapped up and the verdict in, but apparently not:
More Evidence For Staged Photos In Qana?
All of you who have been following the news coming out of the Israel/Hezbollah conflict have by now heard of the controversy over Israel's attack on a rocket site near a building in Qana, Lebanon. Since that attack occurred there has been a seemingly endless string of images showing wreckage and dead bodies, all purportedly caused by the Israeli attacks.
In the past there has been some suggestive, though not conclusive, evidence that would seem to indicate that some of the wreckage and dead bodies may have been caused by Hezbollah for propaganda purposes.
Today Israel Insider has more evidence, this time suggesting that the bodies in question weren't necessarily of people who were in the building when Israel attacked.
IRAN ADMITS: SUPPLIED MISSILES TO HEZBOLLAH "Iran admitted for the first time on Friday that it did indeed supply long-range Zelzal-2 missiles to Hizbullah."
Israeli air strikes cut off Beirut and divide Lebanon - San Jose Mercury News
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Israeli air strikes cut off Beirut and divide Lebanon
San Jose Mercury News -
By
Hannah Allam and Matthew Schofield. BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel expanded
its air campaign against Lebanon on Friday in an apparent effort to
prevent Hezbollah from receiving new supplies from Syria and Iran. ...
Israel Severs Major Lebanon Supply Link
Israel severs Lebanon road link to Syria
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