Shelter terrorists. Pay the price.

Don't just stop with those villages firing rockets. Level the entire Hezbullah controlled country! Take everything back to caves and rubbing flint together to make fire! It was proven last time out that "partial measures" do not work. Finish it next time; UN be damned!

one rocket fired at israeli civilians should reduce the village to ashes

Now that Hizballah have ministers in the Lebanese govt. any hostile action toward Israel can be deemed a legitimate act of war by one sovereign nation against another. Israel will be well within its rights to bomb Lebanese infrastructure including power plants, telephone central offices, cell towers etc. I still remember the bombing of Baghdad during the first Gulf War. Beiruit is in for the same thing if Hizbullah attacks Israel. Let's be honest the UN is going to call any Israeli action disproportionate anyway - so do what you have to do - let the UN be dammed.

I really hope that the left wing appeasers in the Knesset don't stop people like this from doing what needs to be done next time around.

This is exactly what I always said. In any future war, Shiites villages in southern Lebanon has to be destroyed. If Nasralah begin another war, if he try to make some of his coward attack, Israel should make sure that Shiites gets a giant Ashoura, that they will remmeber for centuries as their Nakba. Mao once said taht the Vietcong guerillas where in Vietnam like a fish in a pond. If you want to kill the fish, then dried the pond. By the way the bad influence of Shiite in the Lebanese society will be consequently reduced.

All military analysts know that radical Islamists cannot be pacified, even if for tactical reasons, they made a "Hudna" (temporary peace) or simply withdrew until it’s time to attack again. Have you noticed the return of the Taliban to Afghanistan? We should notice the brief quiet from the Hezbullah in Lebanon while they re-build their fortifications and load them with an estimated 40,000 missiles and growing? Olmert and his slugs have exercised "Restraint for Peace" demanded of them by the U.S. "Shadow Government" spokesperson, Condoleezza Rice. That mistake should not happen again! More about the Hezbullah at : http://xrl.us/orpzj

flukes or what? You seem to be connecting two ideas incorrectly. The IDF's failures in 2006 were because Olmert refused to allow them to do what was needed. Not because the IDF couldn't have crushed Lebanon, which it should and hopefully with Generals like these WILL!

one front? History begs to differ. But then again it differs with the Arabs on most things.

You're a joke mate. The hammer is going fall and ... boy - your friends just better watch out. Its going to rough. The more that is thrown at Israel - the greater the response. I'm a betting man - I don't fancy your chances.

is stupid giving arguments in "advance" to the detractors of Israel. in contrary ...THE TREATH OF LIBANISTAN , SYRIA AND IRAN ...IS A TREATH OF GENOCIDE.

'From our standpoint, these are not civilian villages, they are military bases,' Maj.-Gen. Eisenkot tells Yedioth Ahronoth A spark from Israel after a long time, Keep it alive.

You guys surely think you are tough don't you, talking about destroying Lebanon in every possible way from your save havens in North America? I'd say, come here and experience first-hand what war against a terrorist organization operating from a neighboring country means, as I have. We Israelis do not wish to destroy Lebanon, the contrary. That doesn't mean we won't fight for our country and lives. But all this cheap warmongering rhetoric of the level Nasrallah himself is sprouting doesn't help anybody. It's merely pathetic. I can guarantee you that you guys have no idea about the complexities of war and the failures of our army during the last conflict. Basically THE problem was we blindly flattened everything but strategies or tactics were nowhere to be found. If we don't rehabilitate the army and come up with some decent battle plans, of which I do not experience many signs, the next war will have a similar or worst outcome.

In the war to come we will make sure not a single Shiite will be allowe dto put the foot alive beyond the Litani, and that all the rest of these gangs will be pushed into Syria for the century to come. The influence of shiism in Lebanon will be destroyed once forever if these beasts try to attack us again.

Though the plan has been approved, it doesn't mean that it will be implemented in the moment of truth. if, for example, Israel has at that time a cowardly left oriented Prime Minister.

Israel should push out every single Lebanese from South Lebanon in the next war and make the area uninhabitable. This is the only language Hezbos understand.

Eisenkot's talk exclusive to Yedioth Ahronoth with no Lebanese replay? deterrence is so effective!

I was glad to read this warning and agree with every word. It is different now that Hizballa are an integral part of the government, as they can no longer claim that the Lebanese government is not accountable, so it will be a war between 2 countries. ( A big strategic mistake on the part of the Huzballa - their hunger for power will eventually be their downfall and not a moment too soon). However do not mistake leftism with apologism. I am a Leftist. I believe in territorial compromise for REAL PEACE - but NOT AT THE EXPENSE OF OUR SECURITY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! That is not the same as the weak willed people who apologise every day that they are Jewish and live in Israel. They are not MY conscience and they weaken our struggle for survival. I am proud to be a Zionist, and I believe that both Zionism and Humanism can coexist. Do not lump me and these pathetic apologists in the same group! Israel's security and the lives of it's citizens are paramount and should always come first, especially before Lebanese accomplices and collaborators.

Please tell the General to keep dreaming. He is living in the past. The next war will be fought in Palestine and not Lebanon. The second Lebanon war the whole northern part of zion left, next time all zions will be on the Gaza border. BTW Dimona will be bombed if the IDF dares to bomb Lebanese civilians indiscriminately. Please tell the general to wake up & smell the roses.

but, trying to annihilate Arabs to bring victory is your real enemy.

The difference between shia's and Israelis is that Israelis has the power to destroy all the shiites of this world in 1 second, if only they wanted to. To the opposite, the Shiites in lebanon and in the Shiite entity want so dearly to detsroy Israel but, despite they empty barkings, aren't yet capable from. A good guess for you guys. Don't start another war, because this war will be the last your sore sect will ever see, and I promise you such amount of detsruction among you that you will remebered not for the criminals you where, but mere for the way you will be destroyed. Capice ?

All the formal procedures have recognized and obeyed. The hammer is in the fist.

katyushas are needles in a haystack.israel can only deter.we cannot find the rockets. so the general is right.massive bombing of the villages will deter.we may even see emigration from these villages if the threat is repeated often enough.

It is time to crush the Mullahs and send them on permanent vacation...Where ? Where all the Vergins are waiting for them in Hell. Bravo General Never Again

This is one General who has the brain and guts to draw up such a winning plan. This is how great Generals operate. Having such a plan itself should be a deterrent to Israel's pernicious enemies in the North and eleswhere.

Are you having all key to the wars? I am coming to take them from you, don't worry; I will put them all somewhere in to the deep sea. Let us keep all wars locked indefinitely. That will be good for your people. Our gain without war will be; our heavy taxes will be reduced. Moreover, Please don't worry, we will take care of ourselves, with or without the taxes.

Thank you Septimus for trusting in us. However, please do not take any decision for us. We don't look forward to destruction of any sect. We look forward to peaceful co-existence. All those weapons and hugh machinery we possess is not for war but to protect ourselves.