Writing from Egypt, Axis of Logic correspondent, Cherifa Sirry found humor in this report on the Lebanese/Israeli prisoner exchange and Israel's reaction:

Is it possible for the Israeli army to demean itself any further??  Is it possible for Israel to humiliate itself more than it already has during the past 2 years of military and political defeat in Lebanon?!

Obviously it is!

This past week, Israel has bombarded ordinary Lebanese civilians with phone calls in an attempt to threaten and intimidate them.  The Lebanese and in fact the whole Arab world has been in stitches of laughter at this matter in full knowledge that Israel wouldn’t be able to silently suffer its humiliation of this past week’s glorious prisoner exchange and entire events of the week.

It is not the first time that Israel resorts to calling by phone or sending messages to the Lebanese.  It did so before the 2006 war and our Lebanese friends used to forward the messages to us.  In 2006, Israel with its “4th or 5th most powerful army in the world” failed to disarm the Lebanese resistance Hezbollah in spite of its vicious military onslaught on Lebanon.  From 2006 to 2008 and in spite of incessant attempts to instigate civil and sectarian strife inside Lebanon and create any movement against Hezbollah, Israel  again failed to stand to Hezbollah.   Maybe Israel thinks that it can today disarm Hezbollah via SMS!!! - Cherifa Sirry, Egypt

LEBANON'S new telecommunications minister has accused Israel of bombarding Lebanese people with threatening phone calls, a day after a controversial prisoner swap between Israel and Hezbollah.

"Hundreds of people throughout Lebanon received threatening phone calls on their landlines from Israel,'' Gibran Bassil said overnight.

"The phone would ring, the person would answer and they would hear a message saying, 'This is from the state of Israel. Abandon Hezbollah or there will be another war, like there was in 2006,''' he said.

Mr Bassil, a member of the Free Patriotic Movement, the main Christian party in the Syrian-backed opposition, said he has written a letter of protest to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
"We consider this to be a clear violation of UN Security Council resolution 1701,'' Mr Bassil said, referring to the resolution which ended the devastating 34-day war in 2006 between Israel and Hezbollah.

Israel's defence ministry declined to comment on the claims.

However, an official said Israel used "all sorts of methods to weaken Hezbollah'' and that it was was engaged in "intelligence and electronic warfare'' against the militia.

Many Lebanese had received similar phone messages urging them not to support Hezbollah during the course of the war which killed more than 1200 Lebanese, mostly civilians and more than 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers.

The news comes a day after the bodies of two Israeli soldiers, whose capture on July 12, 2006 in a cross-border raid sparked the war, were exchanged for five Lebanese prisoners and the remains of almost 200 Lebanese and Palestinian fighters.

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