Basically, any symptoms that people experienced were due to their own wild imaginations. And the original news agency starting the panic wasn't al-Manar but the government's National News Service.

I guess that Nasrallah should stop sniffing Air Conditioning gas and give the Lebanese some credit - they are not THAT stupid!

B"H If you cannot win the war with other means, send balloons. That is an offensive strategy that really works. Congradulations Israel on finding the key to victory. Maybe attach candy next time.

and so cheap. As cheap and low-tech as plain air.

If that's all it takes, let's round up all the helium we have, fill the balloons and send them wafting north. If we run out of helium we can always use the massive amounts of hot air the two of them generate

My aunt used to say that people who come up with sick ideas like this are the same people who would ACTUALLY do something like it. For example...crash a plane loaded with people into a 110 story building, throw a wheelchair bound guy overboard and tell him "swim for shore", or blow yourselves up in a crowded London subway station. If anyone should be worried about poisoned green baloons coming over the border, it's Israeli's NOT Lebanese.

ynetnews, I think you're the only Israeli newspaper that has started picking up these stories of lible campaign. That makes you the best.

"remember how they poisened wells?", "remember how they left toys to bomb on children?" pleasssse!!! It's not even the lies that I can't take it's their audasity! Bombing kids is your territory. In a few years from noe you're gonna say: "remember how they poisend Lebanese with baloons?". Forget it, you aint worth anymore of my time.

It's not getting enough attention :)

The IDF drops Evil Zionist Condoms of Death in packs of 3, green apple and strawberry flavored, guaranteed to make a Moslem penis shrivel up and fall off within 24 hours, just by looking at them. And if that does not work, there is the elite IDF female special forces Exotic Dancer Death Squad.

The power of placebo is truly incredible. We don't need weapons. These people are already afraid of us. This should be easy.

You really believe what you are writing?

how can the wind take the balloons over to Tyre, not everybody as dump as you guys, this is some chicky Israeli pilot trying to be funny by filling the ballons with poisonous gaz and throwing them in south lebanon.

outstanding....

Where were you in elementary school? Didn't they teach you anything more than hating Jews? The wind can carry across continents. Now, use your head and just think- Earth has a gravitational pull,- so things fall downwards. Helium is lighter in air- which is why it floats upwards when contained in a balloon. So...why would anyone use a fighter jet to try to drop Helium filled party balloons on Lebanon? Fishtay?.... Oy......

It appears that Israel is in breach of the Geneva Convention. Although it wouldn't be the first time would it?

I've been posting these rediculous stories to forums as the Arab press has been publishing them. Judging from the reactions, these helium hoaxes have done more harm to the Arab cause than any amount of recent racist ravings . Let the world know the bedrock of hatred, fear and downright stupidity the anti-Israel forces feed on. And keep those balloons coming!

printed with hebrew words and released them. Hmmmm....I wonder if hizbull is doing this to preempt any future disastrous attempts they make to control the lebanese populace. I wonder what the protocols of hizbull says.

They are pathological liars ..who would say or do anything to get rid of jews.....But they will be punished for their evil.....

You have to remember that in south lebanon, they are still dealing with the millions of unexploded cluster bomblets that were fired indescriminately at the end of the war, so to them it would not be far fetched that israel is now also sending them poisonous balloons...

And the recipe for the poisonous gaz was found in the Protocol of the Elders of Zion probably , yes ? When one does not have political arguments, one can always set up tales.....just like the Nazis did.....but of course, there is not so much difference between the activity of Hasan Nasrallah, Mahmoud the Iranian Nazi.....and Adolf ! But we knew that already.... Too bad Julius Streicher is dead ! He could have been hired by the Nazislamists of Lebanon to help them renew their stock of fairytales for the benefit of the uneducated Islamist population !

This is a pretty funny story. It does not exactly reflect well on the Associated Press, however.

This is idea represents the zenith of radical Islamic intellectualism. This would have been a joke ,if it was not so dam stupid. !

The Arab press said there was a plot by Jews to make Egyptian and Palestinian schoolgirls sexually promiscuous by selling them bubble gum laced with aphrodisiacs. Then of course came the accusation that the Tsunami was caused by Israeli nuclear testing. Is it any wonder why Jews constantly win the Nobel prize with such genius inventions :-)

It's amazing what people will believe if they hate so much!!

If you are serious, than you need ot get help, fast! no one in their right mind would believe this crap, especally coming from hizballah. Check your head Stephen!

ALL U IDIOTIC MORONS ARE ONLY GOOD IN JUDGING THINGS U HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT! I LIVED THE THE WAR AND LOST CLOSE PEOPLE OF MY FAMILY,AND IM SURE U HAVE LOST SOME1 U DEEPLY LOVE. U CANT IMAGINE HOW MUCH DISTRUSTION AND EVILNESS ISRAEL HAS DONE. ONCE AMERICA AND ISRAEL CAN TAKE OUT THE BLOOD DISGUSTING HANDS OUT OF THIS BEATIFUL COUNTRY,THEN IL BE HAPPY!