Kristol: It's Our Warhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666031/posts 07/14/2006 9:19:30 PM EDT · 1 reply · 123+ views
The Weekly Standard ^ | 07/24/06 | William Kristol
Bush should go to Jerusalem--and the U.S. should confront Iran. WHY IS THIS ARAB-ISRAELI WAR different from all other Arab-Israeli wars? Because it's not an Arab-Israeli war. Most of Israel's traditional Arab enemies have checked out of the current conflict. The governments of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia are, to say the least, indifferent to the fate of Hamas and Hezbollah. The Palestine Liberation Organization (Fatah) isn't a player. The prime mover behind the terrorist groups who have started this war is a non-Arab state, Iran, which wasn't involved in any of Israel's previous wars. What's happening in the...
Winds Of War http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665841/posts 440 KEYS AM Radio ^ | July 14, 2006 | Jenni Vinson Trejo
Winds Of War By Jenni Vinson Trejo July 14, 2006 The world woke up this morning to the reality that the winds of war are swirling all about us. The aggressions occurring between Israel and Lebanon and the saber rattling of North Korea have certainly broken the lull the American mentality had fallen into. Not even the most Liberal and political among us can continue to ignore the state of war America is in. The fact of the matter is that we have been engaged in World War III since Al Queda attacked America on September 11, 2001. The events...
Syria says supports Hizbollah against Israelhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665976/posts Reuters ^ | July 14, 2006 | Reuters News Alert
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syria will support its allies Hizbollah and Lebanon against Israel's attacks on the country, the ruling Baath Party said on Friday. "The Syrian people are ready to extend full support to the Lebanese people and their heroic resistance to remain steadfast and confront the barbaric Israeli aggression and its crimes," a communiqu issued by the party's national command said.
Israelis cut the route to Iranhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665996/posts The Australian ^ | 7-14-06 | Martin Chulov
ISRAELI fighter jets have destroyed the main road linking Lebanon to Syria and pounded the Hezbollah heartland in the south of Beirut in a bid to stop militants smuggling two captured soldiers to Iran. The Lebanese capital is now isolated, with Israeli planes and ships controlling the sky and waterways two days after the soldiers were seized by Hezbollah militants in a cross-border raid that has sparked the most serious violence in Lebanon since the height of its civil war. Claiming he had "sealed his own fate", Israel yesterday threatened to assassinate Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah, who trumpeted the soldiers'...
Syria, Iran Seen As Behind Kidnappings ~~ From the Associated Press....Surprise...http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665993/posts Las Vegas Sun ^ | July 14, 2006 at 12:50:52 PDT | DONNA ABU-NASR ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The fighting between Israeli forces and Islamic militants in Lebanon hasn't touched Iran or Syria yet, but many analysts think those countries were the hidden hand behind Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers. At the White House and in Arab capitals, the belief is strong that the Mideast's top two hard-line states are playing a dangerous game to increase their influence. However, analysts say it could backfire and weaken Hezbollah, and by extension its two patrons. "We would be idiots if we believed it was only about the Israeli captives," Hazem Saghieh, a senior Lebanese columnist...