Israel at War Watch: United Nations Security Council Unanimously Adopts Resolution to End Israel-Hezbollah War

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice votes on a resolution during a meeting of the Security Council Friday Aug. 11, 2006 at the United Nations in New York. The resolution calls for an end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, and authorizes the deployment of 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon as Israel withdraws.

AP: Security Council OKs Mideast Peace Deal

The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday that calls for an end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, and authorizes the deployment of 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon as Israel withdraws.

The draft, which had been proposed by the United States and France, offers the best chance yet for peace after more than four weeks of significant bloodshed. It was the first significant action by the Security Council, the most powerful U.N. body, to address a war that has killed more than 800 people, destroyed Lebanon’s infrastructure and inflamed tensions across the Middle East.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert endorsed the resolution late Friday, after a day of dramatic day brinksmanship including a threat to expand the ground war in Lebanon. But Israeli officials said Israel would not halt fighting until Israel’s Cabinet has approved the cease-fire deal in its weekly meeting Sunday.

Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora also assured Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that his country backed the resolution, a U.S. official said.

Raise the White Flag of Surrender.

Flap can see Sheik Hassan Nazrallah, the leader of of Hezbollah tomorrow crawling out of his bunker and mocking Israel as a toothless paper tiger and declaring victory. A victory that the United States and France helped broker.

This is an unbelievable turn of events.

Omert will lose the Prime Ministership and his government WILL fall within a week.

President Bush and more specifically Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have lost credibility with American conservatives and have paved the way for GOP electoral disaster in November.

Flap cannot simply fathom this surrender to the Hezbollah.

Yoni the Blogger, a former IDF member cannot believe it either. And what of the troops that have to maintain the peace while under fire as the Israeli cabinet draws out its acceptance of the deal?

Michelle Malkin has Wave the white flag–and Hizballah’s

Israel and the West surrender to Hizballah.

Terrorists and the U.N. win.

Here are the depressing details.

Read Allah, Rick Moran, and Phares for more gloom.

Andy McCarthy