Twenty Missiles Launched Into Beruit Mark Israel's 'Approval' Of Ceasefire

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August 13, 2006

JERUSALEM -- Israel's Cabinet approved the U.N. cease-fire deal after a stormy debate Sunday, clearing a key hurdle to ending the monthlong Mideast war. The vote came as 20 huge explosions rocked Beirut, apparently shelling by Israeli warships off the Lebanese coast.

Television reports said the shells fell in Beirut's Dahiyeh suburb, a Hezbollah stronghold that has been pounded repeatedly by Israeli warplanes and ships.

The cease-fire was to go into effect at 8 a.m. Beirut time Monday (1 a.m. EDT). Some 15,000 Lebanese troops and an equal number of U.N. forces are to deploy in coming days in south Lebanon and create a buffer zone between the border with Israel and the Litani River.

The potential for more clashes after a cease-fire is high. Israeli troops will remain in Lebanon until Lebanese troops deploy there, and Israel's weekend push to the Litani River, some 18 miles from the border, meant scores of Hezbollah fighters were caught behind Israeli lines. Israel said it hoped Lebanese troops will start deploying quickly, within a week or two.


report: http://www.10news.com/news/9671905/detail.html

[acmavm]

1. Shows the integrity and honesty factor of the Israeli government.

People whine that Hebzollah won't keep the bargain either. Well, would you with a bargaining partner like this?

[theanarch]

2. a good point about Israel as a bargaining partner, but...

...how quickly everyone has forgotten that Olmert ran for PM on a platform of "Palestianians/Arabs/etc. are too irrational to negotiate with", and openly announced that, under a Kadima gov't., Israel wouldn't negotiate anything with anybody, but instead dictate whatever terms Israel wanted at the point of a gun...a threat the seems to work better with Congressional Democrats and the amerikan M$M than it ever has with Hamas or Hezbollah.

[acmavm]

4. Olmert is backing himself into a big hole. He's shown that he is a liar,

publically shown that to the entire world. He's alienated everyone but the US and Britain, which isn't a good thing considering that we can't even pull off our own aggressive actions successfully. And this just might be the last straw. Israel has nothing left with which to bargain. And the Palestinian/Arab world is sick and tired of their bully tactics.

Better give those kids a bunch more markers and get 'em to signing those bombs that they use on Lebanese kids. They're gonna need 'em.

[theanarch]

5. i agree that, politically speaking, Olmert is toast...

...and he certainly deserves to be (as well as the next war criminal to be tried before the World Court). Problem is, when Kadima loses the next vote of confidence in the Knesset (sometime next week?), you can bet the farm that Likud will win the next election, and pursue an even more violent, unilateral policy vis a vis Hamas and Hezbollah/Lebanon. Getting rid of Olmert/Kadima not only doesn't solve anything, it probably will make matters worse, considering who will be replacing him.

[leftchick]

3. Residents flee after airstrike....

Residents flee the scene after an Israeli air raid in Beirut's southern suburbs August 13, 2006. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)

Can you imgaine finding anyone alive in this mess? :cry:





A Lebanese civil defense rescuer runs through the rubble of a collapsed building while others search for survivors as smoke rises in the background, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2006, following an Israeli warplane bombardment. Israeli warplanes pounded south Beirut with at least 20 missiles in a two-minute period Sunday, minutes after the Israeli government approved a U.N. cease-fire plan that was to go into effect 17 hours later. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)



Lebanese Red Cross and civil defense rescuers rush the body of a young girl who was taken out of the rubble of a building that was destroyed as smoke rises in the background, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2006, following an Israeli warplane bombardment. Israeli warplanes pounded south Beirut with at least 20 missiles in a two-minute period Sunday, minutes after the Israeli government approved a U.N. cease-fire plan that was to go into effect 17 hours later. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

[MidwestTransplant]

6. 250 (Hizbollah) rockets hit north; 80 hurt

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2454166

[bigtree]

8. what a mess

the Israeli government warned their citizens today against complacency because of the 'agreement.'



I wonder what morning will bring?

[leftchick]

9. rescue workers found the Hezbollah Fighter targeted by Israeli Strikes

she was about ten...



Lebanese civil defence personnel remove the body of a victim after an Israeli air raid on a house in Bourj al-Shemali near the port-city of Tyre in south Lebanon August 13, 2006. REUTERS/Haidar Hawila (LEBANON)

[chimpymustgo]

7. A humanitarian disaster for Lebanon; a military disaster for Israel.

And all the good will Israel has lost in the eyes and hearts of the world.

STOP KILLING NOW

[MidwestTransplant]

10. Surely Hezbollah will just stop firing rockets into Israel

if they stop trying to blow their rockets up.

[raysr]

11. Piece on FSTV

last night on how Isreal shapes the news in the US. Phrasing and spin to make Isreal the victim. Alot of information on Isreali atrocities toward Palestinians. And how they continually steal Palistinian land.

[leftchick]

13. It is An Israeli Operation To Control the message

Israel backed by army of cyber-soldiers

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m25213&l=i&size=1&hd=0

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In the past week nearly 5,000 members of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) have downloaded special “megaphone” software that alerts them to anti-Israeli chatrooms or internet polls to enable them to post contrary viewpoints. A student team in Jerusalem combs the web in a host of different languages to flag the sites so that those who have signed up can influence an opinion survey or the course of a debate.

Jonny Cline, of the international student group, said that Jewish students and youth groups with their understanding of the web environment were ideally placed to present another side to the debate.

“We’re saying to these people that if Israel is being bashed, don’t ignore it, change it,” Mr Cline said. “A poll like CNN’s takes just a few seconds to vote in, but if thousands take part the outcome will be changed. What’s vital is that the international face of the conflict is balanced.”

Doron Barkat, 29, in Jerusalem, spends long nights trawling the web to try to swing the debate Israel’s way. “When I see internet polls for or against Israel I send out a mailing list to vote for Israel,” he said. “It can be that after 15 minutes there will be 400 votes for Israel.

“It’s very satisfying. There are also forums where Lebanese and Israelis talk.”

[KoKo]

14. OY! Like Freeping Polls....sheesh!

[leftchick]

16. yes! And Just Think!

WE are paying for it!!!!! :puke:

[Imagevision]

12. This time tomorrow night the rockets/bombs will still be flying

Israel is getting flap for not eliminating Hezbollah in 30 days - Israel thinks they would just do their own shock n Awe bit and it would be all over.

[KoKo]

15. the "stars" say it won't settle down until after September 5th.....

:cry:

The Stars meaning "noted Astrologers." A former DU'er who is also a clinical psychologist.