NEW ANTI-DRUG CAMPAIGN EQUATES SMOKING MARIJUANA WITH TERRORISM

Israel's Anti-Drug Authority has launched a new campaign featuring
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, aimed at deterring Israelis from
smoking marijuana.

As part of the campaign, the authority has published a poster
showing the Hezbollah leader emerging genie-like from a bong (a
waterpipe commonly used for smoking marijuana and hashish).

Underneath the image, the poster reads: "Hezbollah is clearly
planning to flood Israel with narcotics. Narcotics pose a strategic
threat to Israeli society. Whoever uses narcotics is giving a hand
to the next terrorist attack."

The Israeli media last week quoted senior Israeli security sources
as saying that Hezbollah is planning to flood Israel with drugs in
an effort to harm its citizens.

Police and IDF troops on the same day stopped the largest shipment
of pure heroin ever to be intercepted on Israel's border with
Lebanon, a total of 32.5 kilograms, with an estimated street value
of NIS 30 million.

Earlier that week, it was reported that the security services had
arrested a career Israel Defense Forces soldier in February on
suspicion that he handed over secrets to the Lebanon-based guerilla group.