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Senior source: IDF to withdraw in week or two
Ronny Sofer
Published: 13.08.06, 00:47
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31. Suggestion
Neil ,   Philadelphia   (08.13.06)
Israel should offer to have joint patrols with the Lebanese army, both in the south and along the border with Syria, to keep Hezbollah from re-arming. Israel and Lebanon should create a joint organization to help rebuild southern Lebanon and northern Israel.
32. soldiers
Jeff ,   USA   (08.13.06)
What about our captive soldiers Mr. Olmert.? You said there are no deals , no prisoners swap. We want our sons back now! No less.
33. Genuine Traitor
malcolm ,   NYC   (08.13.06)
Olmert will be deposed at the first convenient moment. He left a trail of his countrymens blood a mile long while giving the enemy a "victory". Selfish, arrogant, and heartless opportunist who only cares about his political career, his international standing, future lecture curcuits and business deals , and of course his wifes Parissian shopping sprees. Is there a capital punishment in Israel for traitors?
34. #12 AGREE. The "NICE WAR" is over..
Scott   (08.13.06)
The asymmetric war may be over - and it could be state Vs state in future. Next time though , no one will care about civilians - the "Nice War" is over. One thing that has been learned by everyone is that absolute overwhelming force is required to have any impact.
35. Will BBC nominate Nazrallah for Nobel Peace Prize?
Arthur   (08.13.06)
See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/shared/player/player.stm?title=Hezbollah to 'observe UN truce'&clipurl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news_web/video/9012da68004e6c0/nb/09012da68004e965_16x9_nb.ram&cs=news
36. Yes: Nasrallah for Nobel Peace Prize!
Mohammed Katusha   (08.13.06)
Nasrallah has brought peace to this troubled region. Despite the Israeli agression when they deliberately allowed their soldiers to be kidnapped by the peaceful Hizbullah farmers, Nasrallah has worked tirelessly for a lasting peace. He should be given the Nobel Peace Prize, be made dictator of Lebanon, have ten palaces built for him and be given all the women he wants. That's how our highly spiritual Islamic culture operates. You decadent Westerners would not understand.
37. Congratulations to Olmert
Max, Pissed as hell ,   Northbrook Illinois,   (08.13.06)
Congratulations to Olmert for being the first Israeli prime Minister to defeat. The incompetence of the Israeli leadership is abominable. I am a donor which donates a modest sum of approximately $15,000 a year to numerous Israeli causes. Unfortunately my wife and I, after long hard discussions, have decided to cease sending money to Israel. We are not multi millionaires and need to invest our charity wisely, and if we’re sending our money to an infrastructure which gets bombed out the next day, we just don’t have the resources to invest in a failing enterprise. There are plenty of worthy causes in America which we can contribute to. When the Israeli people put an end to this non sense and elect a prime minister with a pair of masculinity we will start contributing to Israel once again.
38. It would be a tragedy
Sidney ,   USA   (08.13.06)
if after all the deaths and destruction, Israel's two soldiers were still prisoners and Hezbollah will be in a position to regroup and rearm. If this is the result, the people of Israel should rise in wrath against the government responsible. They will need better leadership for the next war against a stronger Hezbollah.
39. a bad ceasefire?
tom ,   toronto, canada   (08.13.06)
two small details are missing from this wonderful united nations document: the reason for starting the war, and the reason for finishing it. the two kidnapped soldiers do not seem to even get a mention. how is it that the israeli government "forgot" about them? isn't that the only non-negotiable term for a settlement? and where is the provision, even only in theory, for the disarming of hezbollah? security council resolution 1559 did little enough to protect israeli life and property, but at least it specified that the militias must be disarmed. where is there such a thing in this "resolution" (which "resolves" nothing)?
40. Lebanese Army = Hiz.fighters in Lebanese army uniform
John ,   NZ   (08.13.06)
Hiz. fighters = in civilian clothings. Somehow, the truth will come out, that Hizbollah is playing a hide, seek and destroy Israel game.
41. ISRAEL'S DEADLIEST DAY YET!
Khalid   (08.13.06)
19 dead soldiers bringing the toll of dead troops in this war to over 100. By the way: Hizballah has killed more Israeli soldiers than civillians and Israel has killed far more civillians than Hizballah fighters; maybe Israel's got bad weapons or something.
42. UN RESOLUTION is DECEITFUL & RACIST AGAINST ISRAEL
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (08.13.06)
Extreme DECEIT: Moral equivalency is made between Iran's Hizbullah terrorist army' vicious unprovoked acts of war against Israel - over 3,000 rockets fired at Israel and Israel's self-defense operations which are referred to as "offensive" military operations. Images show Hizbullah using high-density residential areas to launch rockets: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,19955774-5007220,00.html Extreme DECEIT: UN Resolution authors are fully aware, but deliberately ignore that terrorist Hizbullah is part of Lebanon's government and that the Lebanon government actively colludes with Hizbullah. Extreme RACISM: The damage and destruction to Israel is enormous. Israel's economy is devastated. Destruction in some Israeli towns is far worse than experienced by most people in the Lebanese cities of Beirut and Sidon. Some Israelis have no food and no money to buy food. The most profound Jew-hate is revealed in the resolution which asks for financial and humanitarian assistance for Lebanon the aggressor - but no assistance whatsoever to Israel the victim. It is despicable. Extreme RACISM and DECEIT: In calling for disarmament of all armed groups in Lebanon, the U.S. EU and UN are fully aware Hizbullah will NEVER disarm and aware they are giving Hizbullah a massive victory against Israel. The UN resolution is deceitful and despicable for its rabid Jew-hate. Photo Fraud in Lebanon Aish.com's new movie: http://www.aish.com/movies/JP/PhotoFraud.asp
43. LEBANON - NO INNOCENT BYSTANDER
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (08.13.06)
Lebanon's government and Hizbullah, fighting a proxy war for Syria and Iran share responsibility for causing all of the deaths, injuries and damage wrought in Lebanon and Israel. In the global war to bring all nations under Islamic subjugation, Israel's fight for survival is a fight for freedom and human rights for all nations. The Innocent Bystander Myth Evelyn Gordon, THE JERUSALEM POST July 20, 2006 ...Far from being smuggled in without the government's knowledge, weapons earmarked for Hizbullah arrived openly in Beirut Airport almost every week - and the airport, unlike southern Lebanon, is fully controlled by the government and the Lebanese army. Yet the government never ordered the army to confiscate these shipments. Regular arms shipments also came overland from Syria. Yet these, too, passed openly and without hindrance through border crossings controlled by the Lebanese government. The Lebanese army has even openly assisted Hizbullah during the past week's fighting. Hizbullah's successful missile strike on an Israeli naval vessel Friday night, for instance, would have been impossible had the army's radar stations not given Hizbullah the ship's coordinates. Hizbullah does not have radar stations of its own. Far from repudiating Hizbullah's attacks on Israel, the Lebanese government has actively defended, facilitated and assisted them at every turn. There are thus no grounds for treating it as an innocent party in this conflict...
44. READ - UN says immediate Cease Fire.
Peter Morris ,   New Zealand   (08.13.06)
Trust Israel to make its own interpretation of defensive like meaning massive invasion. Quite frankly this addiction to an orgy of killing and destruction will have to be weeded out by the international community. Otherwise its back to the stone age.
45. To Pavel from Moscow
George ,   Atlanta, USA   (08.13.06)
You should rather be concerned with the Russian army casualties. Only those related to dedovschina (brutal hazing of new conscripts - for those who does not know Russian) by far exceed IDF combat casualties.
46. G.I. Joe
David   (08.13.06)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nana0C1adrI
47. Sure, bring them home NOW
Avraham   (08.13.06)
and have 10 times or more the number dead on a few years - stop living in a dream world, "proud" grandpa. This buildup on the side of al Hizbullah and continued for SIX years if not more. You want to give them another six years? A ceasefire merely empowers then hizbullah and enables Syria and Inran in their ability to make war! How DARE YOU???
48. ProudGrandPa
Avraham   (08.13.06)
hey - if you feel confident enough to express your views to me personally, then e-mail me at : avraham@optonline.net
49. to # 14
Yahia ,   Lebanon   (08.13.06)
Eugene, let me tell you how this work. When a Hizbollah freedom fighter die while he is a Jihadist, Hizbollah will announce his death so that everyone in Lebanon would Party because he died during Jihad. Hizbollah already said that they have 62 dead. Nasrallah never lied in anything he said, while your goverment have been doing so from day one. So do not believe the media, only 62 freedom fighters died, so please, reconsider your calculations.
50. Olmert Must Go
Yaron   (08.13.06)
How many more must die? Disgrace. So many dead and crippled while his sons sit in Paris and New York
51. Olmert-Peretz-Livni Surrender ... Hide Behind UN Skirts
Craig Crawford ,   Laguna Niguel USA   (08.13.06)
For the first time since God miraculously and prophetically raised Israel again as a nation in 1948 a leader of Israel has surrendered under fire ... while the army was winning ... and he did it on the Sabbath to minimize the dissent and the outrage. The ruling Kadima-Labor party's highest stated priority is to remove Jews from Judah ... not to protect Jews from their enemies or from massive and deadly rocket attacks ... study your Bible ... Israel has ALWAYS struggled in times of war when being lead by leaders who "did not do that which was right in the sight of the Lord" ... Olmert - Peretz are REALLY tough against teenage girls defending their homes in Judah ... while they squeal and hide behind the skirts of the UN when the sounds of the real battle reach their ears. We read in the Bible it was corrupt and unbelieving politicians and religious rulers much like these who felt their power threatened as they conspired against Jesus-Yeshua, the promised Messiah, who first stepped forth from Eternity ... "from old, from everlasting" (see Micah 5:2) ... the Messiah, who first came to humble Himself before Israel (and the world) by willingly and lovingly offering His life (which 'was without spot or blemish') once and for all as the sacrificial 'Lamb of God' (the ultimate sin offering for both the children of Israel and for the whole world) ... EXACTLY as the prophets said He would ... and who we are told will one-day return in great power as the 'Lion of Judah'... and as 'KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS' (Revelation 19:11-16). And finally, the prophets paint a miserable picture of the generation that would rise soon after Israel would be re-gathered once again as a nation just before the return of Messiah ... the 'time of Jacob's Trouble' (the Day of God's Wrath ... the coming 'Apocalypse') draws near ... I pray the children of Israel (and all people around the world) will wake up and return to God's Word before it's too late. Study the Scriptures ... listen to the prophets ... walk by faith and not in fear ... and trust in the Lord in faith and in love ... Grace and Shalom, www.alphanewsdaily.com www.theprophecies.com
52. to pat usa#26
kuna ,   usa   (08.13.06)
hey pat, don't get upset because israel lost miserabliy. and by the way hez bollah did not loose that many men,171 at the most because as a operational rule guerrilas tend to operate in small groups. their tactics were based on the use of mobility kill, man/armored pit traps . not that you would know what that means. only the real guerrila warfare students would know what i'm talking about. face it, you guys may have killed hundreds of women, children and leveled the country but you did not kill that many super guerrillas. its kind of like stalin grad the germans were repelled even though the city was leveled to the ground. and as we speak right now the golani brigade and other specop units are trapped, separated from their units behind enemy lines practicing their E&E skills.
53. THESE GUYS ARE REALLY CONFUSED & IDIOTS
David ,   Ariel   (08.13.06)
olmert,peretz &halutz decided yesterday after UN resolution of cease fire to widen ground operation which lead yesterday to the death of 24 soldiers ,about 100 injured ,chopper was hit ,5 soldier lost & about 35 Mirkava destroyed.what does this all mean?those idiots are killing best IDF soldiers only for their own political careers.it's time to STOP THEM IMMEDIATELY
54. GO ON LIKE THIS
Lebanese ,   Lebanon   (08.13.06)
you have such marvellous politics olmert,peretz & halutz ,that even our Moubarak,& kingS Abdallah look beside them as babies
55. Israel will be mopping up for 1-2 more months
michael ,   tel aviv & london   (08.13.06)
I’m amazed that people are even discussing the proposed cease-fire and withdrawal seriously. Will Hezbullah move out of areas south of the Litani over the next few days – no. Will UNIFIL be able to move into the area between Israel and the Litani before the IDF has purged Hezbullah - no. How would UNIFIL move Hezbullah out of the area? UNIFIL to Hezbullah – ‘OK chaps time to move north’. Hezbullah to UNIFIL and Israel ‘no problem’. Who are these 15,000 troops that are coming and what is their mandate? Where will the UNIFIL troops sleep and eat and how will they get food and other supplies ? Who will coordinate their actions? The logistics are mammoth. Israel will be involved in fighting for at least another month or two and only token undertakings will occur in the meantime. What is appearing in the media is just so much hype. World leaders know it and the involved parties know it and it simply enables countries to say 'we are trying".
56. Dear "proud grampa"...
Young citizen ,   Israel   (08.13.06)
Yeah sure! And expose the citizens of Israel to attack again! Your comments this WHOLE WAR have shown that you have zero logic in your head and you really need to retire!!! The Arab world will attack us ANYWAY! Where have you been old man? GO TO BED! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!
57. From this point on
Salah   (08.13.06)
A lesson to learn for the sake of all. It is now the time to rethink the Israeli attitude towards peace with Arabs. Sometimes it takes a blow to calm things down. Israel should be on the defensive from this point on all within the 1948 boundaries. Golan Heights, Shabaa Farms, Gaza and West Bank must be given back to Arabs and then peace will last. Stop the using of Israel to serve the Masters of the West and live amongst Arabs, you can belong to this region only if you win the herats and minds of Arabs. Something to think about.
58. Dump Olmert, Rescue the Hostages
Avishai   (08.13.06)
This war was garbage for public relations for Olmert. All the captured soldiers are forgotten about. Dump Olmert and restore the hostages.
59. Olmert & Peretz -
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60. Olmert & Peretz - Throw the Bums out of Office!
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