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Cox & Forkum: Disarmed?
Cox & Forkum: Disarmed?
FoxNews: Israeli Cabinet Approves U.N. Cease-Fire Deal Amid Military Push.
Reuters: Hizbollah says it will abide by ceasefire. (via LGF)
Reuters: Iran says disarming Lebanese Hizbollah “illogical”.
AFP: Truce will be Israel’s last, Lebanon envoy declares. (via LGF)
Lebanon’s UN ambassador bitterly slammed Israel’s month-long bombardment of his country ahead of a hard-won truce, and vowed that the treaty would be Israel’s last with any Middle East country.
“Lebanon will be, I think, the last state to sign a peace treaty with Israel,” UN ambassador Nouhad Mahmoud told CNN television’s “Late Edition” program, without explaining the remark. …
The diplomat added that the 15,000 Lebanese soldiers to be dispatched to south Lebanon to help keep the peace alongside a similarly-sized international UN force “are not going to use force” to disarm the Hezbollah militia which has been battling Israel.
“Hezbollah will just leave the area as armed elements as I understand it, and the Lebanese army will take over the whole region along with the United Nations forces,” he said.
Haaretz: Hezbollah torpedoes Lebanese gov’t meeting on disarmament. (via Donald Sensing who has more)
A meeting of the Lebanese government on the disarming of Hezbollah south of the Litani River was canceled on Sunday following an announcement by the Shi’ite organization that it was not willing to discuss the subject. …
A Lebanese government source wrote on the Arab internet site Ilaf that “when it comes to crunch time, Hezbollah is refusing to give up its arms.”
The cease-fire should already be in effect – so stay tuned……
Will it last?
NOT A CHANCE…..
Technorati Tags: Cox&Forkum, Israel, Hezbollah
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Israel at War Watch: Lebanon Falters Over Cease-Fire
Israeli soldiers carry their injured comrade by the Israel-Lebanon border. Israel launched an 11th hour bid to crush Hezbollah with waves of deadly air strikes and the Shiite fighters unleashed a barrage of rockets, just hours before a UN-brokered ceasefire was due to take effect.
BBC: Lebanon falters over truce detail
Crucial Lebanese cabinet talks on disarming Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon under a UN-brokered ceasefire have been put off.
A truce between Israel and Hezbollah is due to come into force at 0500 GMT.
The postponement, amid reported divisions, seriously complicates the establishment of a stable ceasefire, the BBC’s Nick Childs in Beirut says.
Israel’s cabinet has backed the truce, but says its forces will not leave until peacekeepers are deployed.
Mark Malloch Brown, the UN’s Deputy Secretary General, said it might take a month before a joint UN-Lebanese force was fully in place.
Flap guarantees that there will be NO cease-fire at the United Nations deadline.
Lebanon has cowered to the demands of Hezbollah and is not demanding Hezbollah’s disarming.
Lebanon’s cabinet indefinitely postponed its meeting.
After five hours of discussions on Saturday, it had agreed to accept a UN Security Council ceasefire resolution with reservations.
The second gathering was meant to consider the details of implementation.
However, the issue of Hezbollah’s disarmament and its military presence in southern Lebanon continues to cause major tensions within the fragile government, our correspondent reports.
He says that without a meeting and an agreed plan, it seems that the deployment of 15,000 Lebanese army troops to the south is unlikely to go ahead.
Even if the planned ceasefire happens, the prospects of continuing skirmishes on the ground will remain high, he adds.
Hezbollah, a member of the government, says it will abide by the resolution but retains the right to continue attacks until the last Israeli soldier has left Lebanese soil.
Lebanon’s failure to act should be a sign to Israeli Prime Minister to finish the job and disarm Hezbollah. Why accept a cease-fire when only Israel will abide by the United Nations terms?
From Flap’s prespective there is NO cease-fire agreement and Israel should proceed to militarily neutralize and physically disarm Hezbollah.
This cease-fire agreement was bad for Israel and bad for the United States in the Global War on Terror.
Hezbollah was called out and performed as expected.
Will the United Nations try again?
Doubtful……
Cars burn following a rocket attack by Hezbollah militiamen on the northern coastal port of Haifa. Israel launched an 11th hour bid to crush Hezbollah with waves of deadly air strikes and the Shiite fighters unleashed a barrage of rockets, just hours before a UN-brokered ceasefire was due to take effect.
Captain Ed has BBC: Lebanon Refuses To Disarm Hezbollah
As expected, Nasrallah and Siniora have let Israel off the hook — and provided the political cover for further military action against both. If Lebanon refuses to abide by the terms of the cease-fire, expect the UN Security Council to wash its hands of the issue.
Stay tuned for the ceae-fire deadline? in a few hours……
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Israel at War Watch: Israeli Cabinet Approves United Nations Cease-Fire
Israel at War Watch: Israeli-Hezbollah Cease-Fire Begins Monday
Israel at War Watch: Israeli Troops Reach Latani River – Will Cease-Fire 7 AM Monday
Israel at War Watch: Israeli Prime Minister Olmert Has Accepted United Nations Cease-Fire Deal
Israel at War Watch: United Nations Security Council Resolution to End War?
Technorati Tags: Israel, Hezbollah
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Cindy Sheehan Watch: She’s BACK
Peace activist Cindy Sheehan speaks to the group of activists after she arrived at ‘Camp Casey,’ her peace camp near Crawford, Texas, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2006.
Peace activist Cindy Sheehan leaves Providence Health Center in Waco, Texas, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2006, after a two-day stay for treatment of a minor gynecological procedure and treatment for dehydration. Pushing Sheehan in the wheel chair is Kourtney Bailey.
Hasn’t President Bush already left Texas?
And how long you think Cindy will stay?
Not long – due to health reasons, of course…..
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Cindy Sheehan Watch: Sheehan Hospitalized in Waco – To Be Released Later Today
Cindy Sheehan Watch: Anti-Israel Demonstrators Join Sheehan at Sacramento Street Protest
Cindy Sheehan Watch: Sheehan Heads to the Middle East for Peace Talks?
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Watch: Iran President Joins the Blogosphere
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran has started his own blog. It is in Farsi but there is an English section by clicking on the American Flag:
autobiography 2006/8/11 In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most CompassionateOh Almighty God, please, we beg you to send us our Guardian- who You have promised us- soon and appoint us as His close companions.During the era that nobility was a prestige and living in a city was perfection, I was born in a poor family in a remote village of Garmsar-approximately 90 kilometer east of Tehran. I was born fifteen years after Iran was invaded by foreign forces- in August of 1940- and the time that another puppet, named mohammad Reza – the son of Reza Mirpange- was set as a monarch in Iran. Since the extinct shah -Mohammad Reza- was supposed to take and enter Iran into western civilization slavishly, so many schemes were implemented that Iran becomes another market for the western ceremonial goods without any progress in the scientific field. Our Islamic culture would not allow such an infestation, and this was an impediment in front of shah and his foreign masters’ way. Thus, they decided to make this noble and tenacious culture weak gradually that Iran be attached strongly to the west as far as its economy, politics, and culture was concern. After the implementation of this policy and the unreal and outward of upswing, the villagers began to rush to the cities. Upon the enforcement of the land reform, the status of the villages became worst than the past and villagers for earning some breadcrumbs, they were deceived by the dazzling look and the misleading features of the cities and became suburban and lived in ghettos.
My family was also suffered in the village as others. After my birth -the fourth one in the family- my family was under more pressuresThe blog even has RSS feeds.
Reuters: Iranian president lambasts US on new blogÂ
Iran’s president has launched a Web log, using his first entry to recount his poor upbringing and ask visitors to the site if they think the United States and Israel want to start a new world war.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose speeches are riddled with anti-U.S. rhetoric, also described how he was angered by American meddling in Iran even when he was at elementary school.
Analyst Saeed Laylaz said the site — available in Persian, Arabic, English and French at www.ahmadinejad.ir — may be seeking to win support from abroad.
“Do you think that the U.S. and Israeli intention and goal by attacking Lebanon is pulling the trigger for another world war?” the president asks visitors to the site, offering them the choice to vote ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
Iran has shown the ultimate in Western media cycle manipulation. First, it was Mike Wallace and now the blogosphere.
Hey, President Ahmadinejad how about enabling comments and trackbacks?
Stay tuned…….
More from Captain Ed and Allah……
Technorati Tags: Iran, MahmoudAhmadinejad
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Israel at War Watch: Israeli Cabinet Approves United Nations Cease-Fire
L-R) Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transportation Shaul Mofaz, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, an unidentified official and Vice Premier Shimon Peres. Israel will negotiate for the release of two soldiers whose capture by Hezbollah militants on July 12 sparked the Israeli offensive in Lebanon, Livni said.
JPost: Israeli cabinet approves UN cease-fire deal 24-0
The Israeli cabinet approved the UN cease-fire deal after a stormy debate on Sunday, clearing a key hurdle to ending the monthlong Mideast war, the government said.
The 24-0 vote, with one abstention, came a day after the Lebanese government approved the agreement, and Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave his grudging consent. The truce was to take effect on Monday morning, but the potential for new flareups remained high.
Former Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz abstained in the vote, said a senior government official.
But, will the cease-fire take effect? Or go forward?
Captain Ed of Captain’s Quarters is reporting that the Lebanon government is about to fall and the Cabinet meeting of Siniora’s government has been abruptly cancelled.
Lebanon’s cabinet was supposed to vote on a plan to deploy 15,000 Lebanon troops to displace Hezbollah. These troops along with 15,000 troops from the United Nations are to comprise the international force charged with enforcing the United Nations’ resolution.
If Lebanon does not fulfill its obligations under the cease-fire, then there is no cease-fire and Israel will have no choice but to proceed with the invasion of southern Lebanon.
Lebanese Red Cross and civil defense rescuers search for survivors under the rubble of a collapsed building, as smoke rises in the background, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2006, following an Israeli attack. Israeli warplanes pounded south Beirut with at least 20 missiles in a two-minute period Sunday.
A critical Lebanese Cabinet meeting set for Sunday to discuss implementation of the cease-fire between Israel and Hizbullah was postponed, a move that was likely to delay the dispatch of the Lebanese army to the south and an end of the fighting.
A top aide to Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said the meeting had been indefinitely postponed but would give no reason. Published reports said the Cabinet, which approved the cease-fire unanimously Saturday night, had been sharply divided over demands in the cease-fire agreement that Hizbullah surrender its weapons in south Lebanon.
That disagreement was believed to have caused the postponement of the Sunday meeting that was to have taken up the dispatch of some 15,000 troops to the south.
And it doesn’t look like Hezbollah is disarming either with its continuing rocket attacks on northern Israel. Moreover, the delay in Lebanon deploying its troops makes tomorrow’s cease-fire deadline unlikely.
But the Lebanese Cabinet postponed its meeting Sunday to discuss implementing the resolution, a Lebanese government minister said.
The meeting was postponed one to two days, the minister said, at the request of parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri, a key negotiator with Hezbollah.
The postponement will give government officials more time to meet with Hezbollah leadership to discuss details of implementing the U.N. resolution, the Lebanese minister said.
The resolution, approved unanimously by the U.N. Security Council on Friday, calls for boosting the number of U.N. troops in the area from 2,000 to 15,000.
They would be joined by 15,000 Lebanese troops and charged with ensuring Hezbollah could not operate anywhere between the Israeli-Lebanese border and the Litani River.
Remember the resolution requires a “full cessation of hostilities” followed by the deployment of Lebanese forces into southern Lebanon. At the same time, Israel is to withdraw its soldiers from the area.
Without Lebanon’s government authorizing the deployment of 15,000 troops pending the arrival of 13,000 additional United Nations troops to join them, Israel will NOT stop hostilities.
They would be fools otherwise.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir August 13, 2006
