AP Wire | 08/03/2006 | Hezbollah leader threatens Tel Aviv

Is this guy bluffing or what?

I guess we shall see.......

AP Wire 08/03/2006 Hezbollah leader threatens Tel Aviv:

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hezbollah's leader offered Thursday to stop rocket attacks on northern Israel in return for an end to airstrikes throughout Lebanon.

However, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah also vowed to fire rockets into Tel Aviv if Israel strikes Beirut proper. Israeli warplanes have repeatedly bombarded Hezbollah strongholds in southern suburbs of Beirut.
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If you bomb our capital Beirut, we will bomb the capital of your usurping entity... We will bomb Tel Aviv,' he said in a taped televised speech.

In issuing the threat, Nasrallah offered his first opening toward diminishing the three-week-old conflict, which has taken more than 500 Lebanese lives and killed more than 50 Israelis.

'Anytime you decide to stop your campaign against our cities, villages, civilians and infrastructure, we will not fire rockets on any Israeli settlement or city,' he said in a taped video statement broadcast on Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV and carried simultaneously on all other Lebanese and Arab satellite channels.

Speaking directly to Israelis, Nasrallah said, 'The only choice before you is to stop your aggression and turn to negotiations to end this folly.'

Parts of the speech were carried on Israeli television channels, with Hebrew translation.
Nasrallah said his forces were succeeding in inflicting 'maximum casualties' on Israeli ground troops, and that his guerrillas are '