Israel because its wimp actions, instead of destroying the hibz in the south. You did not stand up and fight. Why did you subject all the northern citizens to daily missle attacks only to bow to the arabs and euro arab lovers. Now, as a result, Israel will give back everything a punishment. Watch, the golan back to the syrians, west bank to the pals. It is the only way for the world to forgive you for NOT FIGHTING. ISRAEL, YOUR GOVERMENT GOT YOU TO THIS POINT. I SADLY BELIEVE AT THIS POINT IN HISTORY, ISRAEL WILL NOT BE A JEWISH STATE IN THE NEXT 20 YEARS.

Israel has finally come to its senses. Kofi said that Israel was bad so they must be. This 48 hour pause should give Hizbullah a chance to get to Beirut and kidnap more women and children to use as human shields. They were running seriously low on Al Jazeera bait. The next time Israel bombs a rocket luanching site, the CNN, MSNBC, AlJazeera will report the Nasty Jews bombed a Lebanese Child Birthing Hopital. They won't mention that the residents were hostages and the missle truck left the cannon fodder before Israel could respond. Way To Go Israel!!!!

And the second one 48-hour ceasefire will give a chance to Hezbollah regroups and remobilize with Iranians supplies. Do not accept any kind of ceasefire until destruction of Hezbollah.

You are obivously incapable of leading Israel's war effort, after it was attacked. You should resign now, in disgrace, and join your peacnik Leftist wife and refusenik Leftist children in hiding. Kadima & Labor = End of Israel This government must be brought down NOW.

You incessantly campaigned on Ynet for Kadima. You see now what you get: Idiots in power afraid of casualties. Israel has 6 million casualties coming from the Mullahs' nukes in a couple of years, if this Olmert & Kadima gang of corrupt idiots lacking any moral clarity stay in power.

onward, you o' Israel have failed to possess the land the Lord your God gave you. I have NO faith in you, but I do have faith in God that HE will restore you...not for your sake, but for the sake of HIS holy name...that the nations of the earth wouldn't profane it because they see your waywardness. Seek Yeshua while there is still time.

Before 1982 the Shiites in South Lebanon were the vassals of Ahmed el Assad, a shiite himself. One day the notables of the villages came to him and asked him to build a school for their children as do the christians and the druze. He was angry and his answer was unequivocal: " My son Kamal is now at the Sorbonne in Paris. He is studying for all of you and you don't need a school. " Before his dead, he called his son Kamal and told him: " I bequeath you a million of donkeys but know my son that the moment they start to study, they will revolt." Today in 2006 it seems that these poor Shiites still are and remain the same donkeys to the full satisfaction of their new chief, nASSrallah.

INCREDIBLE ! Rice gave the information because Ohmert was not able to !

If you are a terrorist, you should fire missiles from civilian areas and hide behind women and children. That's because nobody will be allowed to defend themselves against you and if they do you can influence public opinion to such a degree that your objectives will be pushed even by your most mortal enemy, the USA itself. This tragedy is to a great extent the fault of the (western) media who, in their holy crusade towards objectivity, have left behind the moral obligation to expose Hezbollah's methods of using civilians as shields. They broadcast Hezbollah propaganda fully knowing that Hezbollah is by virtue of its methodology responsible for the death of those civilians. Because the media has so catastrophically failed in being a moral agent, they have assisted in allowing the Hezbollah to create the image that Israel is consciously targeting civilians and that the Israeli government is a party to war crimes. What's next? Hezbollah has 48 hours to do what they please? Israel has to show that it too bleeds? How many people must die in Israel before the soap opera trained big brother outraged tv democracy allows Israel to strike back?

The international red cross says 28 dead of whom 19 children. http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/Lebanon-news-300706!OpenDocument Quote: "At the time of writing, the Lebanese Red Cross Society and the Lebanese Civil Defense have extracted 28 bodies from the rubble, 19 of whom are children". Still 28 to many innocent civilians, but less than the 60 dead Ynet reports?

Hisbullah will love this. It only makes Israel look weak. Hisbullah is far from being destroyed, they will only regroup and group stronger.

What a mistake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

residential areas for launching missiles. http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,19955774-5007220,00.html

Truth http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Communiques/2006/Incident+in+Qana+-+IDF+Spokesman+30-Jul-2006.htm

I am soorry for the loss of life in Qana as well in the rest of Lebanon and expecially Israel. But, I do have a hard time feeling sorry for someone that lives amoung and supports terroists, and even more so when they park a rocket launcher in their back yard. What did they think would happen?!?! I agree that a short ceasefire is in order, but I firmly believe that hizbullah should be wiped away. The Lord be with us all

Hizbollah will call that a win.

This is a disastrous decision. And you all know of course what a "ceasefire" will mean? It means Israel will cease firing but Hezballsup will continue firing and quickly replenish it's stock of rockets that have been destroyed by the heroic IAF. we are well on the way to losing this war if we haven't lost it already. there will be no "ceasefire" and no peace UNTIL and UNLESS the IDF finishes the job.

Give the UN whingers 48 hours to remove all civilians from below the river and THEN ... No more holding back, IAF. Just get in there and pulverize the south. Even if Hezbollah also pulls out with the civilians, at least a buffer zone will have been created. Those civilians will still whine about getting back to their homes, but that can await certain conditions. This is a risky decision both politically and militarily but some new element is needed in the mix. Israel must win this war BOTH militarily and media-wise.

The great Jewish belief in suffering, arguing and avoiding victory never ceases to amaze. Time and again, just when you've got them by the, Uh..heels, you let them go, hoping to be more popular with the world at large and the internal dissidents. Israelis in power have to know that there is no compromise position for Israel, ever. Kill or be killed, that is your option. Your enemies grow in number apace and your time for action shortens.

Can't Israel just fight to win. Forget about one so called mistake and just finish up the war. What a joke. The arabs are laughing at you.

Confirm what I suspected all along.

The man is inept. How can his cabinet and other security officials allow him to do this? This is an outrage.

In the world war fought for Islamic subjugation of all nations, Islamists know when they attack Israel, the U.S. will pressure tiny Israel to give Jewish land to Israel's attackers. THERE IS NO WAR ON TERROR! The U.S. is repeating their pattern of exerting relentless pressure on Israel to give away Jewish land vital to Israel's defense to Israel's implacable enemies. The U.S. EU UN Russia Road Map goal of a global Islamic terror state on Jewish land is an indefensible 6-10 miles wide Israel enabling a second Holocaust of Jews. Jerusalem Post JPost.com » Israel Jul. 26, 2006 Exclusive: US calls for Mount Dov talks By HERB KEINON The US is "counseling" Israel to negotiate a possible withdrawal from the Mount Dov (Shaba Farms) area with Lebanon as part of a long-term arrangement for Lebanon, The Jerusalem Post has learned. This issue was one of the focuses of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's talks in Jerusalem Tuesday with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert... For the Lebanese, a victory could be an Israeli withdrawal from Mount Dov, and a massive international aid package... The area is a 100 square mile parcel of land located at the foot of Mount Hermon where the Syrian, Lebanese and Israeli borders meet. Israel took control of the area after the Six Day War in 1967, and since then has built up a number of military outposts on the strategic hills.

Will you NOW admit that Olmert/Kadima is a disaster for Israel? You were always rooting for them when we warned you that voting for them would put Israel in grave danger. Are you like the rest of the people who pushed Oslo on us and still call it a success. Or will you be a bigger man and admit that you were wrong?

For the first time in Israel's history all 3 top government position ( Prime minister, foreign minister, defense minister) are with minimal or no military experience at all.. This is evident in the manner that this war is being conducted. We have come to the point that our image and our public relations concerns dictate our military decisions... We know that Israel DID NOT and never does target civilians..Yet our behavior is such that it is being viewed as an addmission of guilt.. This is nonesense!!! We are being condemmed by the world community for what happened in Qana.. There were more than 1500 rockets fired at Israel in the last 2 weeks. If, god forbid, each rockets would have killed just one person do you think for a minute that Hizbollah will stop firing for 48 hours to investigate?????????????Those bastards will be buying out all the candies in Lebanon in celebration...

The Golani brigade took over the Golan heighs and beat the crap out of the Syrian army in 1967..unlike in the six days war, they are being held back from fighting some shcmocks with rags on their heads by the most impotant governent in Israel's history!!!