Posted on 08/02/2006 9:37:48 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
IDF photo of Israeli troops heading over border for tonight's patrol
News
CNN: Rights group disputes Qana death toll
U.N.'s Malloch Brown Questions Hezbollah's 'Terror' Designation
UN Delays Talks on Multinational Force to Lebanon
Iran Seeks More Arms for Hezbollah
Israeli soldier from Queens injured in attacks
200 missiles hit Israel as battle rages in Lebanon
Khamenei calls for Muslim resistance against US, Israel
VIDEO
3 minute video of Balbaak raid (.wmv format)
Palkot in Tyre, mentioned the launchers are just over his right shoulder.
Fox is competing with Al Jazeera?
What have the Chinese done...?
inmacts in the hills?
Scratch that....
Please stay safe!
That is what it looks like to me. Thank goodness.
impacts..but out of town in the hills?
Thanks!
I am going to go ahead and get worked up again, so pardon the rant -
This whole rant is based on the presumption that the rockets that killed the 5 Israelis today were fired from southern lebanon. **We are 3 weeks into this conflict and record amounts of missiles are still raining down on northern Israel, with today being the 2nd highest death total. There is more than enough firepower at Israel's disposal to tie up all Hizbullah forces, including rocket crews south of the Litani. Its one thing to fire a kaytusha knowing the launch site will be struck by the IAF within 10 minutes so you got time to boogy on out of there. Its another thing if you got a birgade of IDF forces on the ground within miles of the launch point and you know you will be hunted down after the laucnch. Where does the blame fall - on Olmert, on the IAD/IDF? I've got my theories
If the IDF were to move into southern lebanon with overwhelming force, yes, the #s of IDF casulaties would greatly increase, but that's what soldiers do, they fight and sometimes die; the alternative is Israeli civilians dying, somebody needs to man up and take the kaytushas out of the equation. The majority of their aresenal is the kaytushas, take those away and they've only got a few hundred longer range missiles to hit Israel with that can be fired north of the Litani river** rant over
10 strikes around the city in the last few minutes.
Have any other nations advised a bugout?
Because this conflict has followed unusual lines of evolution, absolutes are hard to come up with, but I think it's reasonably safe to say that the "ground war" has started.
Given that, I would expect Hezbollah's use of rocket attacks to increase dramatically.
Also interesting to note, reports of expanded ground conflict first reached here around 0500 EDT. With Hezbollah just now beginning to reach a knuckle in the curve of their rocket launchings, that implies a response time of about 5 hours. The only other figure I have for this was the 10 hours it took them to respond to resumed IAF strikes a couple days ago.
While a statistical pool of two instances is meaningless, if, in the coming days, we see Hezbollah responding to significant provocations 12 to 24 hours later, I think we can assume that IDF is accomplishing some of their objectives. By the same token, instantaneous response would tend to indicate the opposite.
in and around which city, Kyriat Shimona?
Palcot back on, outgoing and incoming now. at least one response.
Yes sorry I forgot to give city again, kriat shimona.
http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=ar%7Cen&u=http://alsaha.fares.net/sahat%3F128%4046.hr2vetAI59R.33%40.2cc1421d&prev=/language_tools
KIRYAT SHEMONA, Israel — Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu found this northern Israeli city a ghost town today when he came to meet the residents officials.
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