Posted on 08/14/2006 4:05:43 AM PDT by IsraelBeach
UN Israel Lebanon Ceasefire Broken By Hezbollah
By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency
Tel Aviv----August 14...... Just 4 hours after a UN brokered Israel Lebanon ceasefire was to take affect, the terror organization Hezbollah attacked an IDF force in south Lebanon.
"A group of armed Hezbollah terrorists approached an IDF force in the south Lebanon village of Hadatha," an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson told the Israel News Agency.
"The IDF force took defensive positions, requested that they lay their arms down, fired warning shots and then fired at the approaching Hezbollah terrorists. The firefight occurs over a short period of time. No IDF injuries were reported."
In accepting UN Resolution 1701 for which both the Lebanon and Israel governments accepted, Israel maintained the right to defend herself. As such, the 40,000 IDF troops now operating on the Lebanon Israel border will continue to "neutralize" all areas between the Israel border and the Litani river of Hezbollah terrorists.
Hezbollah has refused to lay their weapons down. This has created a schism between Hezbollah and the Lebanon government which is waiting to deploy their army and open humanitarian aid to south Lebanon.
Since the Hezbollah - Israel war began on July 12, Hezbollah has fired more than 4,000 Iran made rockets into Israel. Over 45 Israel civilians, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim, have died as a result of these cross-border terror attacks, and more than 1,800 have been wounded. More than 81 Israel soldiers have been killed in rocket attacks and in combat defending the Jewish nation.
The IDF has instructed its troops to uphold the ceasefire, but military officials remain uncertain as to whether or not quiet will in fact prevail in Lebanon and along the northern border. Defense Minister Amir Peretz said while touring the Northern Command Sunday that “If it turns out that the elements involved in the ceasefire agreement will breach it, the IDF soldiers will not be restrained. We will not accept a situation in which soldiers are hurt and we do not respond; we will retaliate with all means necessary. “The commanders and soldiers on the battlefield must know that they contributed to the formulation of the diplomatic document (UN Resolution) that is aimed at guaranteeing peace in the north for years to come. There was never an agreement more favorable to Israel,” the defense minister said.
A tense Mayor of northern Israel, Shlomo Buhbut was briefed by Minister of Infrastructure Binyamin Ben Eliezer who had come to assess damage. Buhbut was a Labor Knesset Member during the Oslo years, between 1992-1996. Today he tells Ben Eliezer to go back to Jerusalem and tell Prime Minister Olmert that the Forum of Mayors of Northern Cities demands that there be no cessation of the campaign to rid the area of Hezbollah.
"We need to eradicate them. They're an obstacle to peace," Buhbut asserts. Ben Eliezer responds with fighting words. "We're not going to let Nasrallah play games with us any more. If anyone will dare touch our people on this side of the border we'll destroy them, and they'll be responsible. There's no moderation," the minister asserts. "Nasrallah thinks he can control the life of people in the Middle East. No more." Ben Eliezer tells us that there's interaction between Hezbollah and every terrorist group in the world, and leaves no doubt that he has little hope of anything positive coming from the idea of leaving the Lebanese Army in control of southern Lebanon. "They're under the control of Hezbollah. They're Hezbollah in uniform," he concludes.
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"A group of armed Hezbollah terrorists approached an IDF force in the south Lebanon village of Hadatha," an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson told the Israel News Agency. ==
Terrorists ar ethose who blow themselves up in the population center. Hezzies are guerillas.
"There was never an agreement more favorable to Israel,” the defense minister said.
What the IDF needs at this point is a weapon (which is probably only in my dreams) that will taze them from a distance.
I think the Hizb'Allah idjits want to die, but are totally whoosies. Taze them a few times and they won't want to come back.
I don't think anyone expected for life to be peachy....all we expected was for UN peaceniks to be appeased with a brief ceasefire before the next big battle explodes. I say let war settle this....war is good sometimes in regards to settling things.
Terrorists ar ethose who blow themselves up in the population center. Hezzies are guerillas.People who fire rockets randomly into civilian areas are terrorists, not guerrillas.
Olmert is falling right into the [transparent] trap the Hezzies set for him:
1) Israel will be held to a truce not endorsed by its enemy.
2) Iraelis have no reassurance that they can safely return to the North. Can Olmert tell them it's safe?
3) Does Olmert stand down the reserves? If so, he risks leaving remaining troops vulnerable. If not, Israel's economy goes in the tank. Either way, he loses.
4) The IDF troops left in Lebanon become sitting ducks, both politically and physically. Even though Hez hasn't lived up to the U.N. requirements, within days Kofi will denounce the continued "occupation" of Lebanese territory and will blame Israel for any breaches.
In other words, I don't see how Israel could have come out of this any worse. Hezbollah hasn't given up anything and now has the luxury of picking the time and place to restart the war...a time when they can blame Israel...i.e., anytime.
Killing all of them, I hope.
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
Earlier reports of this incident said that one terrorist was hit and wounded by the gunfire and that he and the others withdrew from the area.
"There was never an agreement more favorable to Israel,” the defense minister said.
Hey minister, kidding one's self is not going to get you anywhere.
Get ya head out of the sand and smell the coffee.
no those are suicide/homicide bombers and are terrorists, but you don't have to blow yourself up to be a terrorist. I heard hezbollah invented the suicde bomber, but they don't kill themselves any more. They are still terrorists.
I didn't know that Hezbollah was a member nation of the United Nations. How can the UN broker a ceasefire between a sovereign nation and a terrorist organization?
Does it have to be one or the other? Could they be both?
The Hezbos have chosen poorly.
In other words: "Okay, death...but first ru-ru!"
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