Bishara expects large-scale Israeli military operation against south Lebanon

Arab Israeli Knesset member from Hadash-Balad, Azmi Bishara, said he expected the Israeli occupation forces to carry out a large-scale military operation against Lebanon with the objective of raising support for the ruling Likud party in Israel in the forthcoming Israeli elections.

In an interview with the correspondent of al-Sharq (Orient) radio in the occupied Arab territories, Bishara described such an Israeli operation as a real danger threatening Lebanon. Bishara said: "We always fear such an operation because it is mostly certain in Israel that Lebanon will be attacked on the eve of the Israeli elections as well as the escalation of conditions on the northern borders because all these serve the Israeli rightists "

Bishara continued that this is what actually happened when Shimon Peres was Prime Minister of the previous Israeli government and tried to invest striking of Lebanon for his interest.

Bishara added that Peres' actions benefited the Israeli political right before the elections.

Bishara explained that he does not rule out that an Israeli strike as such would be in retaliation to Tuesday's operation in the occupied part of south Lebanon. Israeli sources described the operation, in which three Israeli elite paratroopers were killed and another 15 wounded, as "a bitter event and a painful strike."