Posted on 11/06/2006 6:57:02 PM PST by kellynla
will israel fight to win this time?
Time for God to show up.
If Israel doesn't fight to win this time, she's in real trouble because if the Democrats control the House, there's no way they'll approve $$/equipment or even verbal support. Israel will stand virtually alone.
The more I read, the more I am convinced that they just want more money.
But there is a un brokered cease fire between Hez-boo-la and Israel.
This surely cant be true.
Hamas is in a similar situation that the PLO had in that they are failing miserably as a governing body. As the Pali's get more discontented with their government Hamas will need to deflect some of that anger by firing up against IDF again.
The war ended without Hezbollah having to return (Eldad) Regev and (Ehud) Goldwasser (the two soldiers it kidnapped in July, originally prompting the confrontations)."
The Israelis should let it be known up front, that for every rocket hit in Israel, there will be two in Damascus.
If they fight this conflict like the recent one, they will lose.
With Syria involved Israel wouldn't be concerned with world public opinion.
I can't imagine Syria's MiG pilots are looking forward to another confrontation with the IAF. Could be another 82 - 0 rout.
Good. And toss in Iran and the USA and I'll be happy.
They had better find a new PM. Olmert is not up to the task.
Despite some around here to claim that israel won the last dust up, it was a strategic blunder of the first magnitude.
The only way to guarantee that it wouldn't happen again would have been to get rid of Olmert and Peretz but Israelis chose not to do that, so this time, they'll reap the whirlwind.
Lebanon blasting Israel's population centers from the north, Syria blasting Israel's population centers from the East and Gaza blasting Israel's population centers from the south make things dire for the Jewish State.
Israel better do something about the situation or at a very minimum she'll suffer tens of billions of property losses and hundreds or thousands dead.
Not to mention that there are now 20,000 UN human shields on the ground in lebanon now. That's going to make it extremely difficult on Israeli air tactics.
While not disarming or interrupting the flow of weapons to Hezb'allah, I really can only think that they were put on the ground to inhibit Israeli offensive actions.
These troops wouldn't go to war against Hezb'allah, but by God, they'll go to war against Israel, BET ON IT!
I wouldn't worry about that, unless they run before the war starts the IAF will take them out before they even get close to Iraqi airspace. If they do make to Iraqi air space, it would be up to the Iraqi Government to let them cross. I would bet they would be forced to land, there is no short supply of Air Force, Marine Corp, and Navy Fighters that would make sure they complied...unless they were considered to be a threat to US Forces, then it becomes Target Practice.
What would you have them do?
what they refused to do in southern lebanon - fight a ground war.
Who wants more money? Are you saying Israel is making this up for more money?
I think if the Democrats get control of Congress we could see Israel being forced to take on the Iranians essentially alone--and it could turn into a nuclear conflagration as Iran launches a full-scale nuclear strike on Israel and Israel retaliates with enough nuclear destructive power to destroy most of Iran, with the nuclear fallout making a huge fraction of the Middle Eastern oilfields unusable for maybe 50-60 years. US$150/barrel for oil will then become a reality and the world plunges into a deep economic recession until new oilfields in the former Soviet Union, the Gulf of Mexico, and southeast Asia come online and oil extraction from oil shale and oil tar sands in North America go to large scale production.
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