Posted on 07/24/2006 1:09:05 PM PDT by Jane2005
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in the Middle East today, meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Her job is tough: not just how to end the fighting in Lebanon, but how to defang Hezbollah ("Party of God," in Arabic) and bring a lasting peace to the Israelis and the Lebanese. With little leverage over Hezbollah terrorists or their Syrian and Iranian sponsors, Miss Rice will not visit Damascus, nor meet with Iranian officials.
Many in Europe have called for the U.S. to impose a ceasefire on Israel as the U.N. Security Council takes up the issue. However, Israel is exercising its legitimate right of self defense after an unprovoked attack across an internationally recognized border. The United States should resist calls to impose a cease fire on a friendly nation before Hizballah is militarily defeated, no longer represents a threat to Israel and Lebanon, and is ready fully to disarm.
Israel's struggle is an important front in a global war on terrorism. A fellow democracy, it should not be stopped in its tracks before Hizballah's military capabilities are depleted and the international community can impose disarmament and retreat from the Israeli border.
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I guess I don't know why some Junk Media and Euorpean political types find this so hard to grasp. HERE is the position of the US Goverment repeated endlessly daily if they will actually simply LISTEN once.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/briefings/
Tony Snow July 18th, 20906.
"A cease-fire that would leave the status quo ante intact is absolutely unacceptable. A cease-fire that would leave intact a terrorist infrastructure is unacceptable. So what we're trying to do is work as best we can toward a cease-fire that is going to create not only the conditions, but the institutions for peace and democracy in the region"
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