AP: Israel to halt war in Lebanon on Monday

[Cooley Hurd]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060812/ap_on_re_mi_ea/lebanon_israel

BEIRUT, Lebanon

Israel will halt its war in Lebanon at 7 a.m. Monday (midnight EDT Sunday night), a senior Israeli government official said Saturday.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly on the sensitive matter. Israel's Cabinet was to endorse the U.N. cease-fire resolution later Sunday.
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On edit: I'm not sure what good this will do - Hezbollah says they'll fight until Israel withdraws, but Israel's saying they'll only "halt hostilities." That's not necessarily a withdrawal...:(

Thanks for the link, cal04!!!

[katmondoo]

1. Good! I hope it is true

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. But until then

bombs away.

They're almost to the Litani River. They've reached they're short term goals.

I wonder what their next excuse will be?

[LTR]

2. Here's the banner

[Cooley Hurd]

4. That's just for the Hezbollah side...

...the actual breaking news banner was up, but then disappeared.

[cal04]

5. Yahoo:Israel to halt war in Lebanon on Monday

Israel will halt its war in Lebanon at 7 a.m. Monday (midnight EDT Sunday night), a senior Israeli government official said Saturday.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly on the sensitive matter. Israel's Cabinet was to endorse the U.N. cease-fire resolution later Sunday.

Israeli helicopters, meanwhile, flew hundreds of commandos into the Hezbollah heartland, and some army units reached the Litani River on Saturday as both sides indicated they would accept the U.N. cease-fire plan to stop heavy fighting still raging in southern Lebanon.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060812/ap_on_re_mi_ea/lebanon_israel

[Cooley Hurd]

6. As always, thanks for the link cal04!!!!

You're better at finding them than I am!:hi:

[uppityperson]

7. so they get to bomb for another 34 hours before stopping? Reueters link

Glad they may endorse it.

Edited to add this:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12582326.htm

Israel's offensive against Hizbollah guerrillas in south Lebanon is expected to end on Monday, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said on Saturday.

Livni said the offensive had continued despite a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for an end to the war because the army had requested an extension.

"We said (we would) allow the army the time it needed and I think that will be until some time on Monday," she told Channel Two television.

Livni gave no time for the end to the offensive. A senior official said it would be at 7 a.m. (0400 GMT).

[IndianaGreen]

11. Livni has turned out to be the one dove out of this war fiasco

She is the one that asked the IDF how more time it needed when it had already asked for additional time before, and failed to reach its objectives.

It was Olmert who prevented Livni from going to the UN after the two of them quarreled at the last cabinet meeting. The irony is that Livni was more of a Sharonista than Olmert ever was, but then consider that before his stroke, Sharon had decided that peace was better than war.

It takes a woman to realize that the men have FUBAR a situation!

[uppityperson]

13. Risking here, and knowing people who show it false, I agree

I wish there were more women in powerful postitions. Women not having to compete with men as far as who can out macho whom. Remember, I know women and men who do not fall within these male/female role things, but still I wish.

[dipsydoodle]

14. Yes but

did they say which Monday ?

[bluedog]

22. So Condi now knows who wants Peace?...............

So Condi told us the resolution would be a good way to "see who really wants peace".

Now, Hizbullah says it will accept the resolution, Israel has to think about it.


And while they do, they are expanding their offensive by ground and air, more than at any time before in this war. Hmm, there seems there's only one logical conclusion to make here. But somehow Condi and Bush aren't making it. I wonder why?

[Kagemusha]

8. Actually the "fight until Israel withdraws" seems to be AP inaccuracy

When IndianaGreen posted what Nasrallah had actually said, it didn't sound like the absolute insane doublespeak the AP presented it as, saying Hezbollah would follow the resolution while breaking it.

What he said was that Hezbollah will always retain the right to resist Israeli aggression. (In context, read, "offensive operations".) He also said the rockets will stop when the air strikes do. So while appearing very grudging, Hezbollah IS pledging to halt fighting as soon as Israel stops attacking it and Lebanon offensively.

Of course if Israel attacks it and Lebanon "defensively", the cease fire will not occur. But Hezbollah is (for political purposes) placing the onus on the IDF.

[LostinVA]

10. Are you mixing up offensively and defensively?

Not being pedantic -- I'm just confused by your post!

[Kagemusha]

21. I'm not confused, Israel is.

They think that offensive operations - hitting civilian convoys with air strikes, artillery shelling - are "defensive" and that they ought to continue such "defensive" operations until their "defensive" objectives are achieved. And since the UN cease-fire resolution allows them to conduct "defensive" military action, Israel will continue to conduct "defensive" military action as long as it likes, whether or not Hezbollah obeys its part of the resolution, which is to stop ALL combat activity.

[LostinVA]

26. Ah -- got it!

[uppityperson]

9. Italy readies up to 3,000 troops for Lebanon

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12588302.htm

Italy is ready to send between 2,000 and 3,000 troops to Lebanon as part of the planned United Nations force to enforce a ceasefire, Defence Undersecretary Lorenzo Forcieri told Reuters on Saturday.

Forcieri said it was "realistic" that Italy would be given vice-command of the force, which would be led by France.

Prime Minister Romano Prodi and Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema issued a joint statement earlier on Saturday to say Italy would take part in the force, which was approved by the U.N. Security Council on Friday. "We will probably be sending between 2,000 and 3,000 men from all the armed forces, said Forcieri.

The U.N. resolution authorises up to 15,000 U.N. troops to move into Lebanon to enforce a ceasefire in the conflict between Hizbollah guerrillas and Israel, expanding the existing U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)....(more@link)

[Rhiannon12866]

12. NY Times story...

Israelis Chase Hint of Victory

Published: August 13, 2006

JERUSALEM, Aug. 12 — Israel’s move to triple its ground forces in Lebanon a day before it is expected to accept a cease-fire has two goals: to cause as much damage to Hezbollah as possible before leaving and to conclude the conflict with something that could be viewed as a victory for an Israeli government under domestic pressure.

Having begun the war by proclaiming that the aim was the destruction and disarmament of Hezbollah, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will only be able to claim that Hezbollah is badly hurt and, with the help of international troops, effectively restrained — even without the robust new international force or disarming of the militia that Israel initially demanded.

In this last army push, which many here regard as awkwardly handled and coming too late to make a big difference, Mr. Olmert wants to ensure that the Iranian-backed militia and its stockpiles are at least cleared out of southern Lebanon. The hope is that inhabitants of the north will be able to emerge from bomb shelters and live without the daily fear of rockets falling on them.

The Israeli cabinet is scheduled to meet Sunday to discuss the U.N. resolution. But the Israeli Army will be pressing forward at least until Monday, if not beyond, trying to destroy Hezbollah rockets and assets. That is a task that Israel does not believe the Lebanese Army, even accompanied by an expanded United Nations force, will dare to do.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/world/middleeast/13israel.html?hp&ex=1155441600&en=c9c338a57d23bd74&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[The Witch]

15. Thank god for Israel doing the right thing

Thank god. Thank god. Thank you Israel for doing this. Thank god.

Yes. I know it will not be the end. But. It's something to be done. Thank god.

:cry: <-- tears of relief

[Raydawg1234]

16. Then we can tell all the crazy fundie apocalypse predictors that they were

wrong again. HaHa. Their dream of death must wait, maybe Bush can help them?

[Dancing_Dave]

17. If it goes through Monday, it may go for years.

The last time Israel invaded Lebanon, the war lasted 18 years.

Hezbollah says they'll fight till Israel withdraws....that's exactly what they did last time too!

[ima_sinnic]

18. oh yeah--halt at 7 a.m., begin again at 8:30. whatever. (n/t)

[PCIntern]

19. Good...

so next time someone thinks about lobbing some rockets on the Jews, or kidnapping, they will not only have to answer to the IDF, but quite possibly to their own government as well.

Should be a wake up call to those who threaten Israel's citizens who live near the borders, and all others as well.

Hez was roundly praised by all the anti-Zionist-entitiy folks for driving out the Israelis years ago, but shucks, they invited them back in this time. Bad idea...what a mess.

Hope this does the trick.

[dionysus]

28. um, reality check.....

hezbollah effectively handed the IDF it's ass this time pal.

And before you hurl the a-word at me, i think none of this shit should be happening.

[Ragin_mad]

32. I guess that explains why Israel is in Hezbollah territory

Instead of Hezbollah being inside Israel.

[NVMojo]

20. in the meantime, they are racing troops and weapons across the border

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=191979756&p=y9y98x46z

[Miss Chybil]

23. I wonder how many people will die on Satuday and Sunday... nt

[Rhiannon12866]

29. That's exactly what I was thinking.

Too many innocent people have already died, so many of them children. And the infrastructure of Lebanon has been decimated. The only democracy in the region, which Bush* praised so highly, not long ago...;(

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

24. "We hereby announce our strategy..."

Horseshit.

Weakest trial balloon ever.

[Name removed]

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[Clarkie1]

27. My, you really are living in a bubble. nt

[LivingInTheBubble]

31. oops I got my post removed

sorry about that DU.

I think I misphrased some of it, however I am still serious about boycotting all israeli products because their army's attacks and murder of lebanese civilians was supported by the majority of israelis and most of them will serve in the army at some point so I consider them totally complicit in what has happened.

[bhikkhu]

30. War is idiot vs. idiot, not good vs. evil

and even then few on either side participate in the idiocy.