Israel calls up 3,000 reserves - military source

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L2161118.htm

Israel calls up 3,000 reserves - military source

JERUSALEM, July 21 (Reuters) - Israel on Friday ordered at least 3,000 reserve soldiers to report for duty as signs grew that the army might be preparing for a ground invasion of southern Lebanon, a military source said.

Israel has massed troops, tanks and artillery near the border with Lebanon since the crisis with Hizbollah erupted on July 12.

It could still take days before new reserves are mobilised. One possibility is that they would be sent to the occupied West Bank to relieve combat troops, who would then be sent north to Lebanon.

Israel, which has a conscript army, has been steadily calling up reserves since it launched a major offensive against Hizbollah in Lebanon after the group abducted two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others in a cross-border raid.

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. I have posted more then a couple of times

in the last year or so, that the next phase of the War would be Israel's to fight. The PNACers have had it all figured out for over a decade.

[MGD]

6. Predicting that Israel will go to war with an Arab neighbor

is like predicting that tomorrow will be Saturday.

[ckramer]

2. Israel is going to lose in an attritional war

with it's enemies surrounding it.

[AnOhioan]

3. And more civilians will die to to make Olmert look "like a leader"

[twaddler01]

4. They need more people for the invasion...

And it is an "invasion".

[goforit]

5. Hmmm...Was this planned? If so, Bush must have planned it. A little late

Should have prepared for this onslaught better.