Posted on 08/09/2006 8:48:53 PM PDT by garbageseeker
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will wait to see in which direction the diplomatic process is headed before giving the IDF a green light to implement the expanded ground operation the security cabinet approved at the end of a tense, six-hour meeting Wednesday, senior sources in the Prime Minister's Office said.
According to these officials, the waiting period would be "very short." The security cabinet, by a vote of 9-0 with three abstentions, approved plans to expand the IDF ground operation to the Litani, which at some points is 30 kilometers from the border, in order to take out the Katyusha launchers that have wreaked havoc on northern Israel over the past month.
Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres (Kadima), Culture and Sport Minister Ophir Paz-Pines (Labor), and Industry and Trade Minister Eli Yishai (Shas) cast the abstaining ballots.
Yishai said after the meeting that he thought the IDF should hit at Lebanese infrastructure and bombard villages from which Katyusha firing on Israel was emanating before sending in more ground troops.
Paz-Pines has consistently voted against expanding the operation since the fighting began, and Peres expressed concern in the meeting that expanding the operation would hinder diplomatic efforts aimed at bringing about a significant change in Lebanon's political reality.
A communiqu released after the meeting said plans brought by Defense Minister Amir Peretz and the IDF had been approved, and that the forum empowered Olmert and Peretz to determine when the operation should begin. The decision did not, however, obligate them to act.
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Bump
Just go.
dump Olmert
Bring Back Bibi
"The decision did not, however, obligate them to act."
GAWD, does there need to be yet ANOTHER decision to OBLIGATE them to act?
Your is different from the Jerusalem Post. The "keyword" search didn't pick up that article
Here you go!
In fact this article is more clear. You need to post the link to this article on the other thread you have started.
OK
Yeah, so Bibi can make some more 'accords' like Wye and Hebron!
Compared to Netanyahu, Olmert is a lightweight.
The Jersalem Post ^ | 09/09/2006 | By HERB KEINON
It's dated September 9th.
Hesitation is a bad sign. Hammer them hard before the UN is able to protect their pals. If the UN gets it's way, they will have Hezbollah rearmed with Europeon money and new Iranian missles faster than you can say "oil for koffee Anan".
I hate those Tying error bugs!
This is freekin' unbelievable.
Olmert must go.
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