Israel launches major ground operations extending to Litani River

AFP via Babelfish translation | August 11, 2006

[conservativepoet]

"a terrestrial operation"


What's that?

[HAL9000]

A ground-based operation.

[claudiustg]

If Israel occupies up to the Latani until Lebanese and UN troops can be put in place there would be ample time to destroy all the underground bunkers the Hezzies have spent the last 6 years building.

I will postpone rolling my eyes and wringing my hands until a couple of weeks down the line.

[jveritas]

The plan is to capture the land to the Litani river up to Tuesday, since Sunday the Israeli Cabinet will vote for the UN resolution 1701. Then Israel will stop the "offensive operations" but they will hold the land they occupied until the international force arrive which can take weeks to arrive. In the meanwhile, Israel will conduct the "defensive operations" as allowed by UN resolution 1701 and clean these area from Hizballah terrorists and destroy their weapons and infrastructure.

[jveritas]

Good choice. I agree 100%.

[MJY1288]

Good choice, Israel is nobody's fool, they have a 50 year history of spanking these radicals

[NormsRevenge]

there would be ample time to destroy all the underground bunkers the Hezzies have spent the last 6 years building.

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but where will the children go to school if they destroy all the bunkers under them?

[HAL9000]

We've had entirely too much hand-wringing and defeatist mentality on the board today.

I am cautiously optimistic that the resolution passed today is the best chance of getting Hezbollah disarmed and cutting off their supplies from Syria.

[HAL9000]

AFP via translation - Shootings of a score of rockets of Hezbollah on the north of Israel

[Battleofbritain]

I am not clear on whether or not Israel will still be allowed to attack Hizbullah in the area Israel occupies south of the litani river after it approves the ceasefire on Sunday. If that is considered "defensive" (which I doubt but some on this board seem to assume), then Israel will have a good deal of time to root out Hizbullah positions. If (and I suspect this is the case) it is not considered "defensive" to attack/root out Hizbullah positions south of the litani, then Israel only has 24 hours to apply all of this newfound man-power (which should have been applied from the very beginning)

[garbageseeker]

The IDF better get moving. The clock is ticking.

[HAL9000]

I think they've cleared a path and they're going to roll in like a tidal wave.

[HAL9000]

I'd consider this operation defensive, and in compliance with the Security Council.

But the rockets Hezbollah just launched are a violation of the resolution, but totally predictable.

[claudiustg]

I saw an interview earlier, where an Israeli general was saying that the way things have unfolded has not been entirely a surprise to the Israeli command. :^)

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Ditto.

That's the plan.

I'm sure by now, Hezbollah has collapsed into a few pockets, and will start scrambling to get the hell out and try to high tail it across the latani.

Its going to be very interesting what Israel finds in there in the coming weeks. They need to stay there and document it. Once the UN arrives, they are going to do everything they can to hide what Hezbollah was up too.

[macamadamia]

"Terrestrial operation"...hahaha...that is so 1 million years ago.

[HAL9000]

AFP via translation -

No limit of time for the Israeli operation in southern Lebanon

JERUSALEM - the terrestrial operation of scale launched by the Israeli army early Saturday in southern Lebanon "is not limited in time", affirmed with AFP a spokesman of the Israeli government.

"This operation which aims at neutralizing the capacities of Hezbollah to be drawn from the rockets and the missiles towards the north of Israel is not limited in time", declared Mr. Avi Pazner.

[silentknight]

Yes patience patience everyone. This is FAR FAR FARRRRRRRRRRRRRR from over.

The best is yet to come.

[JRandomFreeper]

Thanks to for babblefish. I lost almost my real-world un-decoding part. Babblefish reading, it is. Much like to talking mother-in-laws, before. And, then. Because later. Is. Earlier was not.

/johnny