Israeli Tanks Along The Border ...
"General, prepare your troops for a surface attack."
Though not over the border yet in total force, The Israelis are preparing for a massive invasion, according to Yahoo News:
Israel massed tanks and troops on the border, called up reserves and warned civilians to flee Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon as it prepared Friday for a likely ground invasion to set up a deep buffer zone.
The army's chief of staff said forces would conduct ground operations as needed in Lebanon, but they would be "limited." Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz also said nearly 100 Hezbollah guerrillas have been killed in the offensive in Lebanon.
"We will fight terror wherever it is because if we do not fight it, it will fight us. If we don't reach it, it will reach us," Halutz said in a nationally televised news conference. "We will also conduct limited ground operations as much as needed in order to harm the terror that harms us."
An Israeli envoy said the nation will allow aid supplies into Lebanon, a day after the United Nations warned of a growing humanitarian crisis in the country.
This marks the second day of build up prior to the ground invasion. And Lebanon knew this was coming. They had to have known that it wasn't simply going to be rockets and missiles fired back at Hezbollah along with an air campaign. Even Hexbollah knew that Israel would be rolling in with a few tanks. Of course, they don't really have a choice. Just like they did in Gaza after the kidnapping of Sahlit, the Israelis are about to create a buffer zone to prevent Hezbollah from hitting them again.
Naturally, this won't work for long unless the Lebanese military can get into that buffer zone, or the Lebanese people do to Hezbollah like what they did to Syria when they booted them out of the country. Israel, in a way, is helping Lebanon do just that. Now, we cannot expect miracles overnight. Obviously this will be a process just as it was in getting rid of the Syrians, but at least the Lebanese might be willing to try. To truly get rid of Hezbollah, they need to be kicked out of the Lebanese parliament.
Hezbollah, like Hamas, claims "legitimacy" because they are a part of the Lebanese government; Hamas is the elected leader of the Palestinians. Both groups thought that if they directed themselves into the realm of politics that they would be seen as licit and sanctioned; protected by the very political power they had been handed. As Hezbollah has learned, all the political power in the world can't make the people you attack back off. And even if the world--the entire world--had condemned Israel, does nayone think this would've stopped? The human rights groups out there have condemned both sides, though Amnesty International has been harsher towards Israel. No surprise as they always seem to be telling the "good guys" that they're being too rough on the "bad guys."
B-O-O H-O-O. It's a war. Get over it, and they need to get over themselves. Let's just sit back and let the Israelis roll on in to deal with Hezbollah. Marcie correctly assumed yesterday that Hezbollah is seriously hurt from the massive Israelis strikes. Hezbollah's rocket attacks were sparse yesterday, and none were really on target. But that hasn't deterred Hezbollah from fighting. That's fine, too because I'm sure the Israelis aren't going to roll on in to deal with civilians. They want the little cowards to come out of their hiding places, and take this one on the chin like a man.
Publius II
"General, prepare your troops for a surface attack."
Though not over the border yet in total force, The Israelis are preparing for a massive invasion, according to Yahoo News:
Israel massed tanks and troops on the border, called up reserves and warned civilians to flee Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon as it prepared Friday for a likely ground invasion to set up a deep buffer zone.
The army's chief of staff said forces would conduct ground operations as needed in Lebanon, but they would be "limited." Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz also said nearly 100 Hezbollah guerrillas have been killed in the offensive in Lebanon.
"We will fight terror wherever it is because if we do not fight it, it will fight us. If we don't reach it, it will reach us," Halutz said in a nationally televised news conference. "We will also conduct limited ground operations as much as needed in order to harm the terror that harms us."
An Israeli envoy said the nation will allow aid supplies into Lebanon, a day after the United Nations warned of a growing humanitarian crisis in the country.
This marks the second day of build up prior to the ground invasion. And Lebanon knew this was coming. They had to have known that it wasn't simply going to be rockets and missiles fired back at Hezbollah along with an air campaign. Even Hexbollah knew that Israel would be rolling in with a few tanks. Of course, they don't really have a choice. Just like they did in Gaza after the kidnapping of Sahlit, the Israelis are about to create a buffer zone to prevent Hezbollah from hitting them again.
Naturally, this won't work for long unless the Lebanese military can get into that buffer zone, or the Lebanese people do to Hezbollah like what they did to Syria when they booted them out of the country. Israel, in a way, is helping Lebanon do just that. Now, we cannot expect miracles overnight. Obviously this will be a process just as it was in getting rid of the Syrians, but at least the Lebanese might be willing to try. To truly get rid of Hezbollah, they need to be kicked out of the Lebanese parliament.
Hezbollah, like Hamas, claims "legitimacy" because they are a part of the Lebanese government; Hamas is the elected leader of the Palestinians. Both groups thought that if they directed themselves into the realm of politics that they would be seen as licit and sanctioned; protected by the very political power they had been handed. As Hezbollah has learned, all the political power in the world can't make the people you attack back off. And even if the world--the entire world--had condemned Israel, does nayone think this would've stopped? The human rights groups out there have condemned both sides, though Amnesty International has been harsher towards Israel. No surprise as they always seem to be telling the "good guys" that they're being too rough on the "bad guys."
B-O-O H-O-O. It's a war. Get over it, and they need to get over themselves. Let's just sit back and let the Israelis roll on in to deal with Hezbollah. Marcie correctly assumed yesterday that Hezbollah is seriously hurt from the massive Israelis strikes. Hezbollah's rocket attacks were sparse yesterday, and none were really on target. But that hasn't deterred Hezbollah from fighting. That's fine, too because I'm sure the Israelis aren't going to roll on in to deal with civilians. They want the little cowards to come out of their hiding places, and take this one on the chin like a man.
Publius II
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