Both Israel and Hezbollah have intensified their campaigns in the past two days; Israel’s air strikes have expanded to include suburbs of Beirut, more highways, and Lebanons northern border, while Hezbollah launched over 200 rockets into Israel on Thursday (its largest barrage so far in a single day). Hezbollah, on Friday, also succeeded in hitting a field in central Israel outside the city of Hadera, by far the southern-most point hit so far.
The biggest development since my last update is Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s appearance in a taped television statement. He told the Israelis:
“If you strike Beirut, the Islamic resistance will strike Tel Aviv and it is able to do so[if] at any time you decide to stop your campaigns on our cities, suburbs, civilians, and infrastructure, we wont strike with rockets any settlement or Israeli city.”
In response, a senior Israeli military source said “If Tel Aviv is attacked, Lebanese national infrastructure will be destroyed.“
Israeli ground forces are moving northwards slowly; this, combined with Nasrallah’s words, could mean either of two things, as Stratfor notes:
“…from where we sit, the operation looks to be going slowly. That could be because Israel is moving cautiously to reduce Hezbollah positions with minimal casualties to Israeli forces. Alternatively, it could be because Hezbollah is putting up stiff resistance. It is hard to tell from a distance, but Nasrallah’s statement seemed to concede what logic would indicate, which is that Hezbollah is fighting hard but is unlikely to win in the south.”
An internal dispute has also arisen in Israel over how far, exactly, to push the ground invasion. Defense Minister Amir Peretz told Israeli forces to prepare for a push all the way to the Litani River; he believes that will be sufficient to negate the short-range rocket threat from Hezbollah. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, on the other hand, believes-rightly, by many accounts-that taking so much land will not negate the threat from longer range rockets. His position is somewhat at odds with that of his military; according to UPI, “Senior Israeli officers believe they succeeded in curbing with [sic] Hezbollah’s long– and medium-range rockets.“
The unusual public split between the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense may represent political jockeying between the parties the two men represent. The historically hawkish Olmert may be trying to cement Kadimas standing as Israels centrist party, while Peretz seems to be trying to shake the Labor party’s image as traditionally dovish, along with his own image as militarily inexperienced.
Either way, Peretz’s plan would require the approval of the Israeli cabinet, which it is unlikely to gain if the Prime Minister does not get onboard. The Israeli Cabinet has so far only approved the occupation of a buffer zone four miles deep.
Counterterrorismblog points out a NY Sun report that says:
“[t]he Israel Defense Forces also says it has not been able to seal the border between Syria and Lebanon, making it possible to ferry men, small rockets, and other material to Hezbollah through the back roads and smuggling routes in the Bekaa Valley,”
This despite numerous air strikes, which appear to have closed one of the main aid pipelines into Beirut and one of the last accessible border crossings in the north, near the city of Al Qaa (Map here). Aid workers may be able to take side roads, but they will inevitably be slower to arrive where they are needed.
Finally, diplomats at the UN seem to be inching closer to a resolution; Israel has some time to achieve its objectives. They will have to move quickly, though, while rockets continue to fly.
– Eric Hundman
The degenerates, Ehud Olmert and George Bush’s flaws are a direct result of enzyme sepulcher, blind spots in their ability to rationalize with the star groups of being’s we house at airbases and installations we claim to have dereliction for.
On one hand, the star elders conveyed to use they / us, to arbitrate disputes without shots being fired. That is, consciously value arbitration accessory, before undertaking a large scale pre-emptive first strike impetus. Then the U S is in contempt, for the Military Staffers purposely avoided lead telepath, Steven Arroyo’s star board advice to provide security, health and welfare assure-ties for a Palestinian government.
Proceeding from the pretense that U S commanders deprived and oppressed the Philistines and the Christians and Catholics stood idly by in wreck less disregard of the obligations assumed by the the Party’s that allege to be the leaders of a religious entity’s values.
Desbic claims that Olmert and Bush’s acts are crazy people who the God of Israel, (Steven), has caught lying to us to wage confrontation and dis beliefs for another anatomy of followers. Steven, the star based lead telepath first of all is the Jewish peoples God. Olmert tress passed, endangers the public, acts disorderly and dishonest siding one an other’s curses can dial tone off the mark for spinners called never, needs to be executed for crimes against humanity and George Bush’s think they are Mussolini ate his weenie, for retarded peoples opinions.
We here at Star Base 13 in fact don’t all concur with George Bush’s Anti-equasive perjurer’s sightedness cops disagree for enzymes copulated wrongful and they fight the God of Israel with every psych Witt they can assured. The police are a majority enzyme sepulcher squad and don’t like the God of Israel is his real name grand jurors.
So when come time to assemble a side, the God of Israel, like the Russians, the Chinese Republic’s, don’t really see it as yield to the Olmert flaws. And either does Kofi Annan nor Steven V. Schofer, his lady Antzee Dancee’s.
Star bases also added that in every major city in the U S a white is victimized and slain at least every 2 days and the U S defense department doesn’t bomb and invade Mexico or Africa for armed aggressive spontaneity.
In furtherance it was decided that the level of rocket attacks prior to the unlawful trespass of Ehud Olmerts wantonness was minimal 1 or 2 a week in measured response to the negligent care giving the Israeli’s imposed on the Palestinians which is a sign of U S –Christian Catholic insubordination and inconsideration standing to prove that George Bush’s are 5150. The Israeli response to two solders abducted was to keep the peace, not disturb the peace and endanger every body’s life with an axis and allied powers side as if to sight this could start Armageddon loose leafs.
The Israeli’s on one hand claim to be the Hebrews of the Bible’s that are waiting for a Messiah that is here and now and their true colors are they are U S drone species cop followers who are a majority murderer degenerates, like practically all the U S and Israeli leaders. That’s why they disrespected and neglected Arroyo, who is God to our average attention span off the collar. The Lord Steven’s God has two faces that can be seen among other places on the map topography’s of Africa and can be the Devil for all not doing as we addressed advised Rockefeller scabs.
Star Based Perspectives.
We’ll try and save them from the false press
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