Israeli DM: We'll break Hizb'allah

Peretz says terrorist broke rules, now will be broken

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By Ryan Jones
July 14, 2006

Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz Thursday said the Lebanese terror group Hizb'allah had broken the rules of the game by striking a major Israeli population center, and would now pay a price it had not expected.

Following a Hizb'allah missile attack on the coastal city of Haifa, Peretz told reporters:

"We expected Hizb'allah to break the rules and now we are going to break them."

Peretz hinted that Israel would also take action against those regimes that harbor and support Hizb'allah and its terrorist allies.

"All sovereign regimes in the region must know that they too bear responsibility, and we have no intention of letting any element responsible for this crisis off the hook."

The defense minister called on his countrymen to prepare for some difficult days as Israel fights to ensure the future security of the state.

"I say to Israel?s citizens: We may be in for a number of difficult days, but we must remain strong so that after this period is over we will not be in a position in which Israeli children and citizens are threatened by any element in the Middle East."

Earlier in the day, Peretz got to experience the Hizb'allah threat up close when a meeting he was attending at IDF Northern Command Headquarters was interrupted by a Katyusha barrage in the area. Peretz was whisked away to a safe room under the base.

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