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2006-07-18 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Olmert: Offensive to Continue 'Til Release

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-18 15:10|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Has Israel lost its nerve? Till kidnapped soldiers are freed? Then what, allow HeadsforAllan to regroup and rearm?

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-07-18 16:20|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp] 2006-07-18 16:20|| Front Page Top

#2 They know the kidnapped soldiers won't be freed till after the fighting stops. So it's a safe offer for now. Palliates the MSM but doesn't interrupt operations.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-18 16:45|| 2006-07-18 16:45|| Front Page Top

#3 he's also demanded Hezb disarm and withdraw from the border in favor of Leb Army units, something Hezb will never allow - it takes away their entire excuse for existence as a militia. This is a political posturing proposal to disarm critics.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-07-18 16:47|| 2006-07-18 16:47|| Front Page Top

#4 When you've got the pimp hand, ask for the moon.

It's not like the Hizb boyos can comply, and it looks nice to the chattering classes.

Keep slappin.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-07-18 17:13|| 2006-07-18 17:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Let Peretz negotiate cease-fire

Posted by gromgoru 2006-07-18 17:20|| 2006-07-18 17:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Better watch out Olmort or you'll end up like your former boss in the brain-dead ward.

Posted by the Levant 2006-07-18 17:24|| 2006-07-18 17:24|| Front Page Top

#7 What's with your hospital obsession, Levant? Don't you have those in Syria?

Posted by Darrell 2006-07-18 17:25|| 2006-07-18 17:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Sure, Darrell. But there's no demand for vegetable patient technology like in the States.

Posted by the Levant 2006-07-18 17:37|| 2006-07-18 17:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Words and a few WMD are all Syria has.

It's truly tragic - and pathetic - that with so many billions of dollars from oil all the Arab world has achieved is terrorism and boasts.

Levant - people die. But no matter who dies, the reality won't change. Israel is a thriving democracy that has contributed advanced medicine, engineering and other achievements to the whole world.

The Arab world has exported oil - including to your little country - along with seething, cowardly terror violence and some weaponry, mostly copied from the West by people who studied among us. Pathetic.

Y'all might do a little better if you focused your energy on education, representative government, economic development and getting your shit together.

Posted by lotp 2006-07-18 17:39|| 2006-07-18 17:39|| Front Page Top

#10 But there's no demand for vegetable patient technology like in the States.

People don't live that long. Nor it would appear does your world value lives enough to go to that much trouble, although the previous head of the Sauds was an exception.

Posted by anti-Levant 2006-07-18 17:40|| 2006-07-18 17:40|| Front Page Top

#11 It is telling that in an election year, during a decade of tumultuous politics, the US Senate has passed a resolution condemning Hezb'Allah.

Democrat as well as Republican senators are on TV saying Syria and Iran will be held accountable for this violence.

If you want a sign as to which way the winds are blowing in the US, that's one worth paying attention to. Ahmadinajad may think he wants chaos to hasten the coming of the Mahdi. Let Syria be warned -- if Hezb'Allah or its own army use the aging WMD they were given by others, or their own chemical weapons, 'chaos' is not the word for what will result.

The patience of moderate Americans is wearing thin. When this country swings towards reprisals, it may be hard indeed to keep from destroying both Iran and Syria. If millions of people die in those countries, the responsibility will lie squarely with their leaders.

Posted by lotp 2006-07-18 17:53|| 2006-07-18 17:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Very true, lotp. None of the players now have an interest in seeing this go much further relative to the potential downsides. Nor do they have sufficient interest in seeing it end prematurely. So Iran and Syria will very wisely leave Hisb' Allan to twist slowly, slowly in the wind.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-18 18:07|| 2006-07-18 18:07|| Front Page Top

#13 I would not be surprised to see Iran leave Syria twisting slowly as well, depending on how events unfold.

Posted by lotp 2006-07-18 18:10|| 2006-07-18 18:10|| Front Page Top

#14 It's up to Assad Jr. whether he wsnts to put his pencilneck in the noose. Somehow I doubt it. Israel should be happy to eliminate Hisb' Allan and there it ends. It had potential to spiral out of control but I think too many saw this and pulled back from their normal anti-Israel stance.

But Israel's reprieve won't last long. It needs to focus its devastation on the iniverally condemned Hisb' Allan and wait till next time for the rest.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-18 18:17|| 2006-07-18 18:17|| Front Page Top

#15 "Sure, Darrell. But there's no demand for vegetable patient technology like in the States."

Not yet. But soon there will be, then you will be asking the West for it.

-M

Posted by Manolo 2006-07-18 23:17|| 2006-07-18 23:17|| Front Page Top

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