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2006-08-13 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanese cabinet postpones implementing resolution
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Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2006-08-13 13:11|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 If the Hizzies were really getting their asses collectively kicked wouldn't they be jumping all over this ceasefire? Or is Iran intentionally squandering its Lebanese assets for some reason?
Posted by Iblis">Iblis  2006-08-13 13:31||   2006-08-13 13:31|| Front Page Top

#2 DEBKAfile reports: Amid heavy fighting across the entire Lebanese front, Israeli field commanders await orders for Monday 0800 hours ceasefire deadline

August 13, 2006, 8:04 PM (GMT+02:00)

Lebanon front commander Maj-Gen Benny Gantz said Sunday night the IDF will honor the ceasefire but also defend its troops and Israeli civilians. Have they been told to hold their fire in line with Israel’s acceptance of the UN resolution 1701 now that the Lebanese government and Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah have backtracked?

Prime minister Olmert and foreign minister Tzipi Livni spent the day explaining that the resolution is good for Israel and praising its unanimous endorsement by the Israeli cabinet Sunday. The PM plans a speech to Knesset Monday lauding the resolution as an Israeli achievement.

DEBKAfile has learned that Tehran has meanwhile ordered Nasrallah to keep Israel engaged in combat for another 3 to 4. As a result of which he suddenly backed away from his pledges to France and the Siniora government Saturday to accept a ceasefire and a UNIFIL force in south Lebanon.

At five minutes notice, the thunderstruck Lebanese ministers called off their meeting to discuss the deployment of their forces in the south and the disarming of Hizballah.

DEBKAfile’s sources are asking how did it happen that 24 Israeli cabinet ministers who voted to accept the UN resolution all fell into the trap devised by Iran and Narallah? Israeli leaders say the troops will not be recalled until a beefed up UNIFIL force is in place, but no international peacekeepers will deploy without a Lebanese military presence and that has now been checked by Nasrallah.

Sunday, Hizballah deployed dozens of fighters for furious anti-tank missile assaults on IDF tanks and field units along the front. Fierce clashes raged just north of the Israeli town of Metula and other parts of the former “security strip” on the border. At least 16 Israeli soldiers were injured before noon Sunday.

Saturday, Israel lost 24 men in action, including 5 crew aboard a Yasur helicopter that Hizballah shot down.

Sunday, an unprecedented number of rockets – 250 - were also fired into northern Israel by midday. DEBKAfile’s military sources say Hizballah is demonstrating that its ability to subject northern Israel to rocket barrages from S. Lebanon is unimpaired after a month of combat.
Posted by Legolas 2006-08-13 13:40||   2006-08-13 13:40|| Front Page Top

#3 sorry its so long, one of those stories with no individual link
Posted by Legolas 2006-08-13 13:41||   2006-08-13 13:41|| Front Page Top

#4 from nro

Is Hezbollah Sinking the Cease-Fire? [John Podhoretz]

The Arabs, said the Israeli politician Abba Eban, "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." The news this morning that the Hezbollah ministers in the Lebanese cabinet have said they're keeping their weapons in South Lebanon — despite the language of the U.N. ceasefire — may be the most recent fulfillment of Eban's dictum. All Hezbollah has to do is keep quiet and smile and it will not be disarmed by the Lebanese army or the "robust international force" or anybody else. If it chooses this kind of open, in-your-face provocation, the ceasefire dies, Israel goes all-out and Hezbollah is mortally wounded.
Posted at 12:21 PM
Posted by Legolas 2006-08-13 13:42||   2006-08-13 13:42|| Front Page Top

#5 rrrrrrrobust int'l force wow skeery
Posted by Legolas 2006-08-13 13:43||   2006-08-13 13:43|| Front Page Top

#6 People were say that ole Nassy thought Israel would reject the cease fire, so he went along with it. Israel of course excepted the cease fire now he scrabbling around trying to find a way out. Ok crosspatch I am heating up the crow now getting ready to munch.
Posted by djohn66 2006-08-13 14:24||   2006-08-13 14:24|| Front Page Top

#7 djohn66, wait with the crow. Put it back in the fridge, you can always eat it, say, a week from now.
Posted by twobyfour 2006-08-13 14:52||   2006-08-13 14:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Methinks if the Israelis get deep into the Bekaa that they're going to find some interesting surprises, and at least one UNSC member will become very nervous and unhappy ...

I think I know where the IDF needs to put some forces if they want Lebanon to capitulate. Heck, why not put a condition in the resolution saying that the IDF would get to dig holes in the Bekaa Valley after the cease fire went into effect.
Posted by gorb 2006-08-13 15:08||   2006-08-13 15:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Nobody told them they've to actually implement it.
Posted by gromgoru 2006-08-13 15:26||   2006-08-13 15:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Nothing to see here, move along... What about Syrian culpability in Hariri murder, that issue died, this will die too. HZB we'll be there in Southern Lebanon armed and no one will make anything. Expect some "refugees" to set up tents near a UNIFIL post, next will came some HZB that fires a Grad rocket against Israel...rewind and replay...
Posted by Clerert Uneamp2772 2006-08-13 15:28||   2006-08-13 15:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Hmmm, Interesting.
Dosen't matter, though. The "h'bullocks won, Isreal lost" meme is well and truly established.

Maybe this was what Olmert had in mind with his fumbling...Naaah.

Remember that in a choice between deeply laid plots and incompetence, bet on incompetence.

Byzantium related graphic, anyone?
Posted by N guard 2006-08-13 15:31||   2006-08-13 15:31|| Front Page Top

#12 Hezb won't bow til the last Leb's dead....
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-08-13 15:35||   2006-08-13 15:35|| Front Page Top

#13 the fight's on...
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-08-13 15:36||   2006-08-13 15:36|| Front Page Top

#14 Heard Syrian troops were removing mines on the border near the Golan Heights and that 30 tanks have massed there.
Posted by JohnQC 2006-08-13 15:41||   2006-08-13 15:41|| Front Page Top

#15 JohnQC - Where did you see that?
Posted by Laurence of the Rats">Laurence of the Rats  2006-08-13 15:43||   2006-08-13 15:43|| Front Page Top

#16 #3 You can get a link, if you do a "print" and bottom of the small window.
Posted by FeralCat 2006-08-13 15:44||   2006-08-13 15:44|| Front Page Top

#17  Link
Posted by FeralCat 2006-08-13 15:46||   2006-08-13 15:46|| Front Page Top

#18 Overkill is the only thing that works when one side faces terror tactics. In Vietnam, US troops used strategic burnings, Napalm, and extraordinary intelligence to eliminate hidden fortified operational and field centers. Israel is politically prohibited from using effective means, given Hizbollahs effective kidnapping of locals for use as human shields.

If a genuine ceasefire happens, both Hizbollah and Hamas can expect to receive thousands of all-Israel reach missiles. And these will be accurate and will, by their capacity to effect a first strike on the entire electrical infrastructure of Israel, effectively force Israel to sue for peace. By that time, the country will be de-populated of hundreds of thousands of immigrants.

Who will pay for the missiles? At least an additional $100 billion dollars in oil revenue will flow into the treasuries of Saudi Arabia, and Iran this year alone.

The existence of Israel requires immediate regime change in Iran. Other belligerents will fall into place given that event.
Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-08-13 15:48||   2006-08-13 15:48|| Front Page Top

#19 Heard Syrian troops were removing mines on the border near the Golan Heights and that 30 tanks have massed there.

Jennifer Griffin Fox NEws
Posted by j. D. Lux 2006-08-13 15:48||   2006-08-13 15:48|| Front Page Top

#20 hmmmm obviously Syria's COVERT invasion....

I call em "dead"
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-08-13 16:20||   2006-08-13 16:20|| Front Page Top

#21 Rice calls Lebanese PM to warn him that if the UN Lebanon resolution is not implemented, “We will not be responsible for the consequences”

August 13, 2006, 10:18 PM (GMT+02:00)

Earlier, Israeli FM Tzipi Livni put in urgent calls to the US secretary and the French foreign minister in an effort to salvage the ceasefire from Iranian-backed Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s 12th-hour retraction of his consent.
Posted by Legolas 2006-08-13 16:21||   2006-08-13 16:21|| Front Page Top

#22 debka
Posted by Legolas 2006-08-13 16:21||   2006-08-13 16:21|| Front Page Top

#23 Northern Command: Hizbullah Has Not Accepted Ceasefire
22:29 Aug 13, '06 / 19 Av 5766


(IsraelNN.com) A senior officer in the IDF’s Northern Command says that as of now, the Hizbullah has not accepted the ceasefire, making it one-sided.

Israel has said the ceasefire will take effect Monday at 7:00 A.M.
Posted by Legolas 2006-08-13 16:22||   2006-08-13 16:22|| Front Page Top

#24 Fox News just announced that Syrian tanks are massing on the Lebanese border and their engineers are removing land mines that separate the two countries. 30 Syrian tanks have been observed so far.
Posted by Clerert Uneamp2772 2006-08-13 16:38||   2006-08-13 16:38|| Front Page Top

#25 got to be a bluff
Posted by Legolas 2006-08-13 16:44||   2006-08-13 16:44|| Front Page Top

#26 it would take the IAf about what 10 minutes to destroy 30 syrian tanks (and their entire air force)
Posted by Legolas 2006-08-13 16:45||   2006-08-13 16:45|| Front Page Top

#27 what do you guys think is up?
Posted by Legolas 2006-08-13 16:46||   2006-08-13 16:46|| Front Page Top

#28 Nasrralah seems to be breaking the thing, and Syria is just maybe moving to threat Israel and dont let them use full power.
Posted by Clerert Uneamp2772 2006-08-13 16:49||   2006-08-13 16:49|| Front Page Top

#29 So, Syria takes advatage of the ceasefire to reestablish itself inside Lebanon. Well played Hizballah.
Posted by Iblis">Iblis  2006-08-13 16:50||   2006-08-13 16:50|| Front Page Top

#30 One interpretation is Syria wants Hez to abide by the ceasefire while Iran doesn't (and wants Hez to keep going). Syria thinks it has far more to lose from a contnuing war that sooner or later will spill over into Syria.

Iran calculates it has little to lose and much to gain from a continuing war. Iran is of course wrong. Iran is a house of cards that will collapse in days under the right pressure.
Posted by phil_b">phil_b  2006-08-13 17:08|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]  2006-08-13 17:08|| Front Page Top

#31 no way - Syria knows its' fate against the IDF/IAF
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-08-13 17:08||   2006-08-13 17:08|| Front Page Top

#32 Siniora said his Cabinet -- which includes two Hezbollah members -- unanimously approved the resolution Saturday.

Sounds like a group that needs to be "unanimously" decapped. Much like church and state, terrorists and state should be equally immiscible, by force if necessary.
Posted by Zenster 2006-08-13 17:11||   2006-08-13 17:11|| Front Page Top

#33 Syria used to know Frank. Now under Olmert that is an open question.

In any case the 'UN Ceasefire' is a nice gesture but little else. Israel will attempt to abide by it but will be forced by circumstances to continue destroying Leaanon one peice at a time. Hizb'allah, Syria and Iran will continue declare a victory and the Arabs and other islamic tribal peoples accept it as fact.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-08-13 17:15|| www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]">[www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]  2006-08-13 17:15|| Front Page Top

#34 Guessing the postponement was Dinnerjacket telling Pencilneck to send volunteer Syrian martyrs to help Lebanon's women and children police the area when IDF leaves? Syrian lend-lease program for the Hezbos? More likely the Syrian's were told to get clobbered so Iran can expand the conflict prior to 8/22.
Posted by Inspector Clueso 2006-08-13 17:20||   2006-08-13 17:20|| Front Page Top

#35 Iran needs to keep Israeli preoccupied until they can finish their bomb in Aug/Sept. I'm sure they'll keep pushing Hezbollah/Syria to engage Israel until it's finished and actually tested.
Posted by Nick Vtx 2006-08-13 17:39||   2006-08-13 17:39|| Front Page Top

#36 What if Syria doesnt attacks Israel forces but goes directly to Beirut returning to Lebanon? Will Israel attack Syrian units?
Posted by Clerert Uneamp2772 2006-08-13 17:41||   2006-08-13 17:41|| Front Page Top

#37 Olmert said this afternoon (Israeli and French times) that "the UN cease-fire is a great victory"...

So, today 250 rockets pounded Israel, and Olmert is happy with this result!

Maybe Olmert has a synaptic disease that makes him think backward.
Posted by leroidavid">leroidavid  2006-08-13 17:46||   2006-08-13 17:46|| Front Page Top

#38 Yeah he has he also annouced that ceasefire is separated from soldiers fate...
Posted by Clerert Uneamp2772 2006-08-13 18:06||   2006-08-13 18:06|| Front Page Top

#39 i hope he is toast, what an idiot
Posted by Legolas 2006-08-13 18:10||   2006-08-13 18:10|| Front Page Top

#40 Maybe Olmert has a synaptic disease that makes him think backward.

Yeah. He's married. To a total peacenik.
Posted by gorb 2006-08-13 18:12||   2006-08-13 18:12|| Front Page Top

#41 Olmert is amazing.

Some days ago, I said that in France we had the worst Prime Minister on earth, but now, I have been convinced that I was wrong: the worst PM on Earth is Olmert.
Posted by leroidavid">leroidavid  2006-08-13 18:19||   2006-08-13 18:19|| Front Page Top

#42 Yeah. He's married. To a total peacenik.

Tony Blair is married to a total peacenik too, and nevertheless he is still able to think by himself.

Cf. his wonderful Speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council

Now that, at last, the IDF has been unleashed in South Lebanon, it is very clear that the problem during the first 4 weeks wasn't the IDF, but Olmert.
Posted by leroidavid">leroidavid  2006-08-13 18:25||   2006-08-13 18:25|| Front Page Top

#43 Yeah he has he also annouced that ceasefire is separated from soldiers fate...

Worse than that, he announced that the release of the 2 abducted soldiers will be achieved through negociations with Hezbollah !!!

Seems that Olmert has decided to broke each day the world record of stupidity and incompetence.

What did I say ? Each hour !
Posted by leroidavid">leroidavid  2006-08-13 18:31||   2006-08-13 18:31|| Front Page Top

#44 It is indeed looking that way.
Posted by lotp 2006-08-13 18:46||   2006-08-13 18:46|| Front Page Top

#45 After the vote for the cease-fire, Livni said: "The world now understands that Israel will not accept a terrorist organization on our border firing upon our citizens. We achieved most of our goals."

Am I missing something ?
Posted by leroidavid">leroidavid  2006-08-13 19:10||   2006-08-13 19:10|| Front Page Top

#46 #45 look up #33
Posted by gromgoru 2006-08-13 19:16||   2006-08-13 19:16|| Front Page Top

#47 Olmert has got to go or he will take Israel down with him.
Posted by djohn66 2006-08-13 19:21||   2006-08-13 19:21|| Front Page Top

#48 leroidavid-

Blair is rightly pointing out the vast difference in values, but I have a big problem with much of his proposed solution: basically, he wants the West to pay a kind of "aid jizya" to buy peace. He has the same Utopian Socialist condition as many American Democrats-that being America specifically and the West more broadly are OBLIGED to fork over our money:

"...unless we revitalise the broader global agenda on poverty, climate change, trade..."

This is an extremely dangerous proposal for the future prosperity of America. We take "no taxation without representation" very seriously.
Posted by Jules in the Hinterlands 2006-08-13 23:45||   2006-08-13 23:45|| Front Page Top

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