Posted on 08/10/2006 8:58:48 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
Love is a Battlefield
IDF soldier received heart shaped cookie somewhere near the Lebanon border...
Olmert folded....it's over.
Shep....just into FOX...Olmert has agreed to the UN RESOLUTION!!!!!!
RUN,,hezzi,,RUN ,,,LOL !
>>I know its far fetched....but I'm wondering about a coup right now in Israel<<
That would sure explain the fact that one thing is being said while another is being done.
This is unreal!
UN troops to monitor peace in southern Lebanon
Crucial evening: Olmert, Peretz approve large-scale ground offensive in southern Lebanon as UN agrees on draft resolution for truce, which Israeli sources say is 'good' for Israel and which authorize deployment of 15,000 peacekeepers
Yitzhak Benhorin
Is the region heading for all-out war or a ceasefire? That's the question that's hanging in the balance on Friday as the United Nations Security Council meets to vote on a draft French-US resolution for a ceasefire in the Middle East.
The 15 Council members are expected to vote on the draft at 1 am Israel time. If approved, the resolution would authorize the deployment of 15,000 UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon to support Lebanon's
deployment to the region "as Israel withdraws."
The draft, would ask the UN force to monitor a full cessation of hostilities and help Lebanese forces gain full control over an area that has previously been under de facto control of Hizbullah guerillas.
The text of the draft says the force's mandate would include several elements: monitoring the cessation ofhostilities, accompanying Lebanese troops as they deploy and as Israel withdraws, and ensuring humanitarian access to the area.
British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett told CNN that the UN peacekeeping force would have "a clear mandate," but it the Lebanese government will be assisted in imposing its sovereignty over the whole Lebanese territory as stipulated in UN Resolution 1559.
The resolution calls for the disarming of all militias, including Hizbullah.
Israel to consider draft
The five permanent members – the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France – have agreed on the resolution, which seeks an ending to the fighting between the Israel Defense Forces and the Hizbullah.
Council members discussed the draft as Israel gave its army the green light to launch a large-scale ground offensive against Hizbullah and to capture Lebanese territory stretching as far north as the Litani River.
In Jerusalem, officials said the government will look at the articles of the draft resolution before accepting the stipulated ceasefire conditions.
But sources in Jerusalem told Ynet that the draft is "good" for Israel .
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice update Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with discussion over the draft between US and French diplomats.
Defense officials said once the operation is launched it is difficult to stop it.
In Lebanon, Minister Fuad SIniora received a copy Friday evening of the US-French draft, Lebanese government officials said.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said Siniora was studying the document and contacting politicians in his country for their input. The officials refused to say who Siniora was talking with, but the leading Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation said he was in touch with Hezbollah officials as well as parliament speaker Nabih Berri, Hizbullah's de facto negotiator.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3289870,00.html
He will need to go a couple more days at least just to make up for his foolish decision to stop for 48 hours. What an idiot. Israel deserves better.
Reading from his Blackberry now what we have been discussing for 30 minutes.
The Israeli government will fall...
Seems a coup will be the only thing that will save Israel...
Agreed.
Ynet is carrying it, now too, quoting "sources" which aren't named.
I suspect the opposition is getting ready to see if they can vote it down...
Disappointing. Very, very disappointing.
He's made a once mighty military force on the planet earth look foolish, indecisive and impotent, and for that, I won't forgive him.
UN vote projected less than an hour away. However, the parties to the conflict have some time after that until they agree or not...?
Cease fire is accepted by Olmert.....
God help Israel..
Olmert is trying to keep everybody happy and in the end no one will be happy
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