"We are not speaking of preparations for a war to be carried out attheir (
He further suggested that military preparations by
He said that the three parties believe that
"They fear military action initiated by the Americans, whom theyanticipate to be planning an attack against
Yadlin's remarks, made in his briefing at the government's weekly cabinetmeeting, followed a statement by Dr. Arieh Eldad, member of the IsraeliKnesset, in which he said that
Dr Eldad admitted that "Hezbollah is becoming stronger every day,"
"They are rebuilding their ammunition stores, their medium and longmissiles. They are going back to their bunkers in the south of
Yadlin referred to the 1967 Six-Day War, the armed conflict that broke outin June 1967 between
"We are closely following theses preparations, with concern that theparties can incorrectly interpret specific movement of forces in the region. Iwish to remind you of the Six-Day War - when a war that no one wanted broke outas a result of the involvement of many players,".
"We need to be one side prepared, but on the other hand to be carefulsuch steps will not result to erroneous thinking on our part."
There is a growing concern among members of the
President Bush himself hasn't ruled out using the military option to stopwhat he usually describes as the "Iranian nuclear threat".