Posted on 08/11/2006 5:57:28 PM PDT by IsraelBeach
Will Israel Accept UN Resolution 1701?
By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency
Tel Aviv ----August 12, 2006......Minutes ago the United Nations Security Council passed by a vote of 15-0 UN Resolution 1701. The UN resolution calls for an immediate cessation to hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah terror forces operating throughout all of Lebanon.
Will Israel accept this resolution?
The Israel Foreign Ministry says that it is likely that when the Israel cabinet meets on Sunday in Jerusalem they will adopt this resolution drafted by the US, England and France. Even the Hezbollah representative in the Lebanon government states that he would accept this draft which would establish an arms free buffer zone in south Lebanon, that Hezbollah would return the Israel soldiers that it kidnapped that started the present war and that Israel would withdraw all of its forces from Lebanon.
Before the UN vote took place Gideon Meir, the Israel foreign ministry's chief spokesman said: "We did everything in our hands to allow the diplomatic process to succeed, but in the last 12 or 16 hours the resolution has deteriorated to an extent ... that there is no choice for Israel but to go out and extend the operations approved two days ago." Meir made it clear the door remained open to diplomacy and that the IDF could change its plans at any time.
As this analysis is written, the Israel government has given a green light for the Israel Defense Forces to expand it ground operation in Lebanon with the objective of clearing Hezbollah out of an area which reach 19 miles up to the Litani River from the Israel border.
After sustaining over 3,000 missile attacks in an unprovoked war, Israelis are not about to embrace a toothless resolution which would once again place Israel's security on the doormat of UN UNIFIL peace keeping troops and the Lebanon army. Yes, Israel wants peace but not at the expense of losing a secure border.
Although Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is said to accept the resolution, no Israeli would accept the fact that after 4 weeks Katusha rockets are still falling on Israeli cities. That we would make the same mistake a second time of withdrawing from the Lebanon border after stating that Israel would disarm the Hezbollah without any help from any outside party.
Hezbollah would love to accept this resolution. It would give them time to regroup. This has been their strategy for years, attack - speak peace and attack again.
As any surgeon faced with a patient who is suffering from malignant cancer, his job is to clear it all out. To leave any malignant tissue behind would define a failed operation.
Olmert may accept this resolution, but don't bet that the Israel Cabinet will. Israel is at war with an Islam enemy which is funded and backed by Iran. Iran has openly stated that Israel must be wiped off the map. This war is not about Hezbollah. This war is about Iran and Syria.
Until the threat to Israel's very existence is eliminated, until Iran and Syria are confronted, Israel must not allow our reserve troops to come home only to be be called up once again in a few weeks or a few months.
Israel must carve out all tissue of this malignant cancer or be perceived by the Arab world as being impotent. In Arab culture, an Israeli withdrawal at this time would not spell peace, it would only serve as an invite to eliminate Israel.
Until Teheran and Damascus agree to a true and lasting peace, Israel has the right to defend herself. UN Resolution 1701 says it. The Israeli public says it.
If the people of Lebanon truly want peace in their land, they must speak to Syria and Iran, not Israel. The IDF has a mission. The Israeli people are watching and so are the Arabs.
ISRAEL NEWS AGENCY
Accept nothing but total and outright victory, bomb hizbollah and all those that agree with them into oblivion.
UN needs to understand that Israel ain't the problem. This is like telling the bullied to quit fighting. The freaking countries of Iran and Syria and their vicious leaders who export terror in order to prevent freedom from tainting their own populations are the bullies and they are the problem. How about a UN Resolution directed to them to stand down and to behave themselves?
PM Olmert endorsed the resolution and has sent a rather healthy new IDF force into southern Lebanon to show Israel's happiness with the UN deal. [g]
The resolution really just authorizes an observation group, not an army to disarm the region.
I wonder how long it'll be before a vote of "no confidence" for Olmert is made?
Start the countdown clock as to when the first isalmo nazi missles are fired into Israel after the resolution is signed and adopted. Why o why is Israel setting herself up for this?
I have no idea how long it would take but I would hope it would be within days.
What does Israel have to trade with?
Olmert was lucky to get this UN resolution. It's pretty good given Israel didn't do much to earn it.
The country of Israel has been played for a fool by the stupid election schedule in Washington....just ignore the stinking UN and get done the job you need to do Israel, no one gives a hang about the UN anyway....
LOL
Israel and Lebanon are parties to this ceasefire, not Hizbollah. if Hizbollah fires an offensive missile, all bets are off. we'll see if they do. i'm hoping like you that this is to give cover to Israel to finish the job.
"the players are betting that Lebanon will reject this resolution, and that if they dont, that Israel will reject it."
The real hope that I see is that Hezbollah will reject this resolution, not in words but in deeds. Although it is in their clear interest to take a pause, savor their victory, bask in the adulation of the Islamic world, and repair their losses, I still have hope that they will not be able to restrain themselves from lobbing a few missiles at a weakened foe. That would be the cleanest justification for finally taking the gloves off.
What Israel SHOULD do and what they WILL do are two completely opposite options.
What they should do: accept nothing short of the elimination of Hezbolla. Even "disarming" them means nothing - they will be rearmed by Iran and Syria (happening right now).
What they WILL do: Israel will give in under pressure from the rest of the world (as they have done time and time again - from the beginning of Israel's nationhood (I'm talking Biblical time here...). And just as has been the history of surrender when in a position to win, Israel will reap more hardship and deaths because the terrorists will never stop.
Remember that the now ruling Kadima party was just newly formed. If I'm not mistaken, it is a centrist split off from Likud and has many former Likud members.
Sharon started this party to help grant him the freedom for unilateral withdrawl from Jewish settlements in Gaza and West Bank.
It should be clear to many of those crossovers that that was not the brightest move to make. Even while katusha's are still flying, Olmert is still being insistent that he is still planning a West Bank pullout.
I think it would be very easy for Olmert to be given the boot.
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