Where was the cease fire? Not in Lebanon.

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Israeli air force continue Lebanon strikes

July 31, 2006 07:37 AM

Jerusalem - The Israeli air force carried out strikes Monday in southern Lebanon despite an agreement to halt raids for 48 hours after nearly 60 Lebanese civilians were killed in an Israeli bombing, the army said.

The airstrikes near the village of Taibe were meant to protect ground forces operating in the area and were not targeting anyone or anything specific, the army said.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah guerrillas attacked an Israeli tank in southern Lebanon, wounding three soldiers . . .

More than 750,000 Lebanese have fled their homes in the fighting. But many thousands more are still believed holed up in the south, many of them too afraid to flee on roads heavily hit by Israeli strikes.

In a jab at the United States, U.N. chief Kofi Annan told the council in unusually frank terms that he was "deeply dismayed" his previous calls for a halt were ignored. "Action is needed now before many more children, women and men become casualties of a conflict over which they have no control," he said.

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1. WTF?

That is disgraceful. I am WAY past pissed off over this.

TC

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2. was there actually an agreement, though?

If I understand correctly, didn't the US announce a ceasefire but Isreal denied it?

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5. Israel announced it after 9:00, I think Israel time

It WAS hours between our State Dept.s announcement and theirs

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3. The ceasefire was bullshit.

It applied only to an ambiguously defined south Lebanon, and only to IDF bombing operations. Israeli ground forces continue to operate in the region and continue to call in air strikes against any Hezbollah positions or activity. How that is a ceasefire is an exercise in bullshit propaganda only our MSM can perform without blushing.

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4. Bullshit is a

euphemism