No weapons import
This is for the skeptics who always claim that Lebanon is the aggressor and who think that the blockade was necessary. According to the IDF, Hizbullah is not importing new stocks of weapons and is abiding by the cease-fire, an act which the IDF cannot claim it has done.
Jerusalem Post
Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz declared that Hizbullah was strictly adhering to the cease fire in the North. "Since the end of the war Hizbullah guerillas have openly appeared without weapons or uniform," said Halutz. The chief of staff added that as far as the IDF was aware there were no meaningful attempts by the movement to smuggle arms into Lebanon from Syria since the end of the war. Halutz then declared that "if everything goes according to plan, there will be no IDF troops left in Lebanon by Rosh Hashana."
Meanwhile, earlier Tuesday, the report investigating the management of the Northern Command with regards to the capture of the two IDF soldiers on the northern border was published. The report, submitted to Halutz on Monday, highlighted serious failures and operational errors in the command. Furthermore, the report claimed that the IDF's intelligence on the intention of Hizbullah to kidnap soldiers was not up to date. The report also criticized the management of the pursuit immediately after the kidnapping.
Jerusalem Post
Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz declared that Hizbullah was strictly adhering to the cease fire in the North. "Since the end of the war Hizbullah guerillas have openly appeared without weapons or uniform," said Halutz. The chief of staff added that as far as the IDF was aware there were no meaningful attempts by the movement to smuggle arms into Lebanon from Syria since the end of the war. Halutz then declared that "if everything goes according to plan, there will be no IDF troops left in Lebanon by Rosh Hashana."
Meanwhile, earlier Tuesday, the report investigating the management of the Northern Command with regards to the capture of the two IDF soldiers on the northern border was published. The report, submitted to Halutz on Monday, highlighted serious failures and operational errors in the command. Furthermore, the report claimed that the IDF's intelligence on the intention of Hizbullah to kidnap soldiers was not up to date. The report also criticized the management of the pursuit immediately after the kidnapping.
posted by beirutlive at 2:42 PM
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Is the idea that Israel will invade only if there is a "major cease-fire violation?"
I am 100 convineced "Sam" isn't an american but a right-wing Jewish Israeli
No American will spend so much time and effort to diss Arabs.
We know wo would though right?...
"Sam" is nothing more than a foul mouthed bad joke who knows nothing, cares about nothing, has no desire to either know or be anything and wants the world to know he doesn't care. He doesn't simply disrespect Arabs - he spews his vile crap randomly at whoever or whatever irks him at the moment. He's a demented idiot child who has no values and no value and who is bound and determined to let everyone who comes near him know it.
The trouble with that, M2, is that religions are dogmatic. I just posted my argument in the next blogline down.
Your argument, essentially, is that everyone should do good and be good. I agree with you but that is not "religion." That, more propery, is civility. Christianity - and I think, all other religions - say "this is the way it is. period." I posted a brief excerpt from Isaiah in the next blogline down. There, God says "I am God" and "I am the ONLY God" and "I create all good and evil." And, "don't dare to question me." God - the Christian God - doesn't say "those other guys may be ok" or "so long as what they tell you seems good, listen." God says, "I - me - I am the ONLY God. And there will be no discussion or question in that regard. Period."
That's why the Crusades were fought and the Spanish had the inquisition and witches were burned at the stake. The Pope is in no position to be other than tolerant of other "religions" - he cannot accept that they are "correct" or he destroys the basis, for example, of catholic missions around the world specirically and evangelism and proselytizing generally. The fundamental problem is everyone in the fight is so fundamentalist. Put a very conservative jew, a very conservative muslim, a very conservative catholic and a firebreathing protestant preacher in a room and ask them to come up with a plan through which we can all agree there's only one invisible guy in the sky who's in charge of everything. Be sure the room is rubber and there's nothing that can be thrown.
But - assuming those people come to an agreement, now have them try to explain it to their followers in the same way. You think the US is having trouble interpreting the Geneva Conventions Common Article 3? Wait till four priests from different faiths try to formulate a common image of "God" and how he wants us to be.
According to the IDF, Hizbullah is not importing new stocks of weapons and is abiding by the cease-fire, an act which the IDF cannot claim it has done.
Really? Paragraph 3 of UNSC 1701 makes the UNCONDITIONAL release of the "abducted" Israeli soldiers a precondition for the cessation of hostilities. Not doing so is a clear violation on the part of Lebanon. The current cease-fire Lebanon is experiencing is therefore a function of Israeli goodwill. If hostilities resume, under UNSC 1701 Lebanon can only have itself to blame - the U.N. will have very little to say in the matter.
Arabs still suck, Muslims are a dissgrace to all humans.
We've all had our moments, Sam. Think of the Zealots of the first century, or the Fourth Crusaders of the thirteenth. It's all human. It's just that leading Muslims are currently drinking from the cup of hatred, and their weaker co-religionists accept being dragged into the bloodbath.
Sam, try again. From the beginning. Slowly. Make an argument where each sentence follows naturally and logically from the next.
Rosh Hashana approaching. Happy New Year!
Many good points duckforcover. I agree with you completely on "organized" religion.
Organized religion was invented by man - not by "God" or "god" - as a way to control people. Thus, the peace loving muslims are now bent on blowing up the world because they insist their religion is peace and they are, by god, going to kill anyone who doesn't see it that way. George Bush wants a "new mideast" which really means a new crusade to impose the peaceful blessings of christianity on that part of the world. And if it takes every cluster bomb and cruise missile in our inventory to do it, then so be it.
But - so long as people have little hope in themselves, they will look for something to believe in. The easiest thing to believe in when hopeless is that there is a beautiful afterlife. The easiest thing to believe in when not hopeless is that all the hopeless people in the world want what the satisfied people have. And, therefore, the hopeless must be killed.
All of which is why God created brook trout and rainbow trout and weighted tapered line. Flyfishing precludes any ideas about world domination. The ideas of controlling nations and changing the ways people have thought and operated for centuries lose their luster when it dawns that it's damned hard to get a supposedly brainless fish to take the fly unless it's perfectly matched to the hatch. As well as perfectly presented.
hcb, that's really great! Now we know what to say when we don't like what the other person writes:
Go Fish!
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