Support for US and Israel Declining Rapidly Outside of US

[Laotra]

Blog SyriaComment:

"Rice headed for the UN today, which she herself calls a waste of time! America opposes sending a beefed up UN force to Southern Lebanon. Then she will head to Indonesia in order to waste some more time. All of this to hold off the Europeans and give Israel another week to degrade Hizbullah and get better bargaining terms for the moment when negotiations will start.

Syria, in contrast to the US, does not want to play the UN waiting game. It turned back Roed-Larsen, the UN envoy, from visiting Syria. John Bolton, the US ambassador at the UN, went ballistic and claimed this was bad. In some respects, it is more honest than the American approach to the UN, which is to waste its time and make a mockery of it.

The Israeli tactic is bound to backfire, however. Anyone reading Middle East blogs can see the steady wave of repulsion at Israel is growing ever stronger. Tel Aviv's hope that it can turn the rest of Lebanon against Hizbullah is in vain. The Lebanese are closing ranks. Not because they love Hizbullah, but because they are all being bombed and must stand common ground if they want the bombing to stop. So long as the World believes the notion that Arabs want Hizb to be bombed, the Israelis will have more days to bomb Lebanon. Last week, many Lebanese politicians and commentators were happy to lambaste Hizbullah. Today, it is considered a form of bad faith. Hizbullah's critics in the Arab World are going silent.

Adnan Abu-Odeh, a former adviser to the late King Hussein of Jordan. “In fact, historically, this episode is another example of how Israel embarrasses the moderate regimes in the region.”"

More:
http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/Joshua.M.Landis-1/syriablog/index.html

[Dhalgren]

1. This sums up the reason for Israel's actions:

"In fact, historically, this episode is another example of how Israel embarrasses the moderate regimes in the region."

The point is to divide the oppressive governments of the region from the Arab "street" even more than they already are. If the "strongman" governments of the region want to stay in power, there is only one way to do it - submit totally to the US...

[Laotra]

3. Idiots

fomenting revolution and chaos all over the ME. Well, there's a way to handle Peak Oil: blow up what's left!

[Dhalgren]

4. Israel is saying to lebanon, in essence, "liquidate Hezbollah or

we will just destroy your country." The US said something similar to Afghanistan and Iraq regarding their respective "evil-doers". This is a message to Egypt, Jordan, and the Saudis (maybe Turkey, too): "Crush your people who oppose US hegemony or suffer the consequences." The smaller Arab emirates and princedoms seem to already be on board. After all of these "problems" are put to rest, only Syria and Iran will be left and they will be destroyed. Then, Pax Americana will reign - this is straight out of the PNAC playbook...

[hobbit709]

2. There still is support for the US?

News to me.