UPDATE...
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UPDATES - QUOTE:
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Updates
Blair: 60 Brits evacuated from Lebanon Monday
(12:33 , 07.18.06)
Sirens heard in Tiberias; no rockets fall on area
(12:32 , 07.18.06)
Soldier stabbed, weapon stolen
(12:27 , 07.18.06)
Peretz: time limit related to execution of objectives
(12:27 , 07.18.06)
Ahmadinejad: Israel trying to conquer Lebanon because of Iran's nuclear program
(12:21 , 07.18.06)
Rocket barrage in Safed
(12:19 , 07.18.06)
U.N.'s Annan expects Europeans in Lebanon force
(11:55 , 07.18.06)
Livni: Israel engaged in political process in parallel to military operation
(11:34 , 07.18.06)
Larsen says talks with Israel were 'good'
(11:30 , 07.18.06)
Rockets fall north of Nahariya; no injuries
(11:23 , 07.18.06)
Rockets fall in Shlomi; no injured
(11:11 , 07.18.06)
Nahariya, Maale Yosef, Mateh Asher residents called to enter shelters
(11:07 , 07.18.06)
MK Shalom doesn't rule out international force in Lebanon
(11:01 , 07.18.06)
Rocket alarm heard in Haifa and Akko
(11:00 , 07.18.06)
Israel rejects cease-fire to allow evacuation of Australian nationals
(10:53 , 07.18.06)
70 Carmiel families to be moved to Gush Etzion
(10:48 , 07.18.06)
Labor minister: Kilometer security zone must be preserved when operation over
(10:44 , 07.18.06)
Foreign minister meeting with UN delegation to Middle East
(10:25 , 07.18.06)
Report: Israeli strike kills 11 Lebanese soldiers
(10:21 , 07.18.06)
Iraq: casualties from blast in Kufa have risen to 59
(10:03 , 07.18.06)
Report: Iranian Foreign Minister sent to Damascus fearing harsh Israeli response
(09:57 , 07.18.06)
http://hammorabi.blogspot.com/2006/07/middle-east-new-war-war-between.html
"The Middle East New War"
posted by hammorabi @ 7/16/2006 12:05:00 PM
UPDATES...
http://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-3089,00.html
IAF bomb 4 trucks carrying weapons from Syria to Lebanon
(16:16 , 07.18.06)
IDF arrests Tanzim member north of Ramallah
(16:09 , 07.18.06)
Olmert to delegation: Fighting will continue until Israel's security ensured
(16:06 , 07.18.06)
Peres: Lebanese Army doesn't need international forces - doesn't want to fight
(15:52 , 07.18.06)
MK Katz: Uncertain if achieving objectives possible without ground forces in Lebanon
(15:45 , 07.18.06)
MK Shalom: IDF strategic window is getting smaller; Delegations are arriving
(15:40 , 07.18.06)
Netanyahu: We cannot leave Nasrallah with finger on trigger
(15:33 , 07.18.06)
In North: soldier trips as he tries to take shelter from rocket - hurts foot
(15:26 , 07.18.06)
Olmert meets with UN special envoy to Middle East
(15:14 , 07.18.06)
Rocket that hit Haifa Tuesday - smaller than its predecessors
(15:01 , 07.18.06)
IAF renews attack in northern part of Lebanon valley; 5 injured
(14:35 , 07.18.06)
Explosion heard in Gaza
(14:34 , 07.18.06)
MK el-Sana: now is the time for broad political move to end conflict
(14:26 , 07.18.06)
In Haifa, refreshing operational procedures if petrochemical facilities attacked
(13:57 , 07.18.06)
Brushfire near Shlomi spreads to minefield
(13:50 , 07.18.06)
Indonesia offers troops to peacekeeping force in Lebanon
(13:20 , 07.18.06)
Haifa: rocket structure in city's industrial area
(13:07 , 07.18.06)
Rocket his gas tank in industrial area of Safed
(12:49 , 07.18.06)
Rockets land on Haifa
(12:46 , 07.18.06)
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QUOTE:
18 July 2006
A pilot's eye view of the war...
by Major 'Y', an F-16 pilot in the Israeli Air Force:
Friday, 0530
...We head east, to the Bakaa valley, close to the Syrian border. Although we are careful not to get too close to the border and not expecting Syrian action, I keep a careful eye on the warning systems, that will tell me if a missile is launched. This time we have two targets; we later hear reports that the first target had been completely destroyed, while the second hit but not destroyed. Another formation is given the later target.
1800
I join up with a few friends on Tel Aviv beach. We're having some beers, enjoying the breeze and watching the sunset. After a while I say something about how bizarre the situation is - we're here having fun, while whole towns in the north are being bombarded. Wait a minute - they ask me, haven't you been called up? Sure, I reply. Just this morning I dropped two tons of explosives on Lebanon.
CONTINUE...
Posted on 18 July 2006 @ 14:21 GMT
From Israel, and Daniele
When they are back in the shelter and the rockets are falling around their homes, a part of them will still be outside, and fighting back.
This is the functional definition of "Never Again".
Posted on 18 July 2006 @ 14:16 GMT
"Israel is going to far"
More whining from the formerly bellicose Iranians:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that, "The Zionist government went too far and is interested in occupying Lebanon after it failed to pressure Iran on the nuclear issue.
In point of fact, Israel has not gone far enough...
IDF needs another week to alleviate Hizbullah threat:
Forty to fifty percent of Hizbullah's military capability has been destroyed in the six days of the IDF counter-attack following last Wednesday's Hizbullah raid in northern Israel, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
The IDF, it is understood, believes it needs another week or so minimum to achieve its military goals in terms of alleviating Hizbullah's capacity to threaten Israel.
The IDF further believes, it is understood, that it will be given at least that long to continue its actions, in light of the G8 nations' essential support for Israel and those nations' branding Hizbullah and Hamas as being responsible for the current escalation.
Posted on 18 July 2006 @ 13:31 GMT
Here's your sign...
...your sign that IDF efforts against Hizballah are beginning to have a significant impact.
Iran to Hizbullah: Curb attacks on Israel:
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was sent to Damascus to urge Hizbullah to curb rocket attacks against Israel and to release two Israel Defense Forces soldiers captured a week ago in order to avoid further escalations, a London-based Arabic daily reported.
Al-Sharq al-Awsat reported that a European country warned Iran that Israel is ready for a confrontation with Syria, which recently signed a defense alliance with Iran.
The alliance stipulates that Iran would send arms and troops to back Syria should Damascus be attacked.
Iran was also warned that Israel is determined to crush Hizbullah's infrastructure and liquidate its leadership.
The report, which was based on leaks by an Iranian presidential aide, said Iran is worried by criticism waged against Hizbullah by an array of Lebanese politicians like Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and Saad Hariri, son of slain former prime minister Rafik Hariri.
The following is likely related to the preceeding, as cause is to effect.
More than 100 targets in Lebanon struck overnight:
A senior IAF officer said that some 100 targets were struck in Lebanon during the night, including 20 rocket launch sites and launching cells, and 30 infrastructure targets, including arms depots.
The official said that there was no confirmation of reports that Hizbullah has tried to fly a drone or a similar craft into Israel, but stated that the organization was capable of doing so. He added that a shoulder missile was apparently fired at an IDF helicopter operating in Lebanon two days ago, but that the chopper escaped unharmed. The incident is currently under investigation.
IDF sources said that, among the targets attacked Monday night, were several main arteries across Lebanon, an arms depot – including trucks used for weapons' transfer north-east of Beirut, an arms depot in southern Lebanon near a rocket launch site, a truck containing arms in western Lebanon, rocket launch sites and infrastructures serving as Katyusha launchers.
From the sea, the IDF attacked a radar belonging to Lebanese armed forces in Anchuria, in southern Lebanon. Additionally, continuous artillery fire was aimed at the border. In total, the IAF has executed more than 1,600 sorties since the onset of the confrontation in Lebanon, and attacked more than 130 rocket launch sites.
Posted on 18 July 2006 @ 13:21 GMT
17 July 2006
Former Mosad Official Says Saving Lebanon Entails Regime Change in Syria
Commentary by Eli'ezer Tzafrir: "No Choice But to Remove Syria"
Ma'ariv (Internet Version-WWW)
Monday, July 17, 2006 T13:57:59Z
Journal Code: 2761 Language: ENGLISH Record Type: FULLTEXT
Document Type: OSC Translated Text
Word Count: 573
Beyond the basic ideological goal of HAMAS and Hizballah to remove us from the world, exhausting us and shedding our blood on the way, they always perceive us with a different type of logic. They perceive all expressions of our democracy, freedom of expression and criticism, our bleeding heart liberalism and our unfortunate mishaps as well, as weakness, and as an invitation for increased aggression.
Of course, Damascus and Tehran bear responsibility for being the dispatchers, and their time will come. They perceive a general weakness on the part of the West. Iran deduces this from the dilly-dallying in responding to North Korea's missiles and in the West's limp behavior in the context of the Iranian nuclear issue. Syria feels liberated from the evaporation of the committee of inquiry into the Al-Hariri murder, and the dissipation of Western pressure.
We should congratulate the political leadership and the IDF for the moves to crush Hizballah, as hard as possible within the given time frame, which further expands with each katyusha that falls on Haifa, Zefat and Tiberias, as well as on Majd al-Kurum, Tuba, and other minority communities. (Well, Arab fellow citizens -- what have you to say beyond your leaders' support for the "legitimate struggle against Israeli occupation?").
There is no doubt that the time has come to establish new rules of the game.
However, we must bear in mind that within the booby-trapped middle live the sane 70% of Lebanon's population (Christians, Sunnis and Druze) and Lebanese MPs who were elected in a wave of anger surrounding the murder of Rafiq al-Hariri, and the waves of hatred of the Syrians and the expulsion of their army from Lebanon. A 70% who are still unable and/or unwilling and/or afraid to complete the job. They still have a president (Lahud) and Speaker of the Parliament (Birri), and Hizballah is armed and threatening, Syrian agents aside from the those in charge of the assassinations and car bombs.
Take Walid Junblatt, the Druze leader who hasn't given us any reason to rejoice, for example. The Syrians knocked off his father and he fearfully cooperated with them up until the Al-Hariri murder, when he came out publicly against the Syrians. How much longer can he maintain his bravado against the Syrians if Western support has evaporated? He may be brave, but he is not suicidal.
We must therefore limit, to the greatest possible extent, damage to the areas and interests of the sane groups. However, they must understand that we don't have unlimited time to wait until the Lebanese army deploys at our common border. Certainly not while the commander of the Lebanese army, General Sulayman, declares foolhardily that the Lebanese army will protect Lebanon from Israeli aggression. And Mr Chirac and the West must understand that what the sane people in Lebanon need is not the condemnation of Israel, but support for the completion of Lebanese independence and the realization of the army's sovereignty, not Hizballah's, along the border. And it seems that at the end of the "democratization" process there will be no way to avoid removing the Alawite minority as rulers of Syria.
(The writer was a senior Mosad official, head of the Mosad station in Lebanon, and the prime minister's adviser on Arab affairs)
(Description of Source: Tel Aviv Ma'ariv (Internet Version-WWW) in Hebrew -- Independent, second-largest circulation Hebrew-language paper; root URL on filing date: http://epaper.maariv.co.il/)
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City/Source: Tel Aviv
DIALOG Update Date: 20060717; 11:33:39 EST
Descriptors: International Political; Leader; Terrorism
Geographic Codes: ISR; LBN; SYR
Geographic Names: Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Middle East
NewsEdge Document Number: 200607171477.1_09b3006fc2f3e220
Original Source Language: Hebrew
Region: Middle East
Posted on 17 July 2006 @ 22:45 GMT
More Than 300 Iranian Students Announce Readiness To "Defend" Lebanon
More Than 300 Iranian Students Announce Readiness To Defend Lebanon
Fars News Agency (Internet Version-WWW)
Monday, July 17, 2006 T15:59:28Z
Journal Code: 9113 Language: ENGLISH Record Type: FULLTEXT
Document Type: OSC Transcribed Excerpt
Word Count: 292
More than 313 active members of the Union of the Islamic Associations of Independent University Students from across the country have in a letter to the secretary-general of the Lebanese Hizballah announced readiness to take part in the war against the cruel and terrorist Zionist regime.
The Union of Islamic Associations of Independent University Students says in the letter: Today, at this sensitive juncture of the life of the Islamic ummah, the first line of Jihad for God and the center of Islamic awareness and struggle against oppression and conspiracies of the world of arrogance and capitalism, the dear Palestine and Lebanon, are proud.
The letter adds: In fact, the usurper, blood thirsty and criminal Zionist regime is the full portrayal of those who seek to drag humanity into slavery and kill spirituality, justice and freedom for the sake of the material world, lust, and their own greed for power. And in return, the innocent nations of Palestine and Lebanon are the front runners of the Islamic world against so much greed. (passage omitted: the letter calls Israel a cancerous tumor, condemns the killings of innocent people, and claims victory of the Muslims in the end)
(Description of Source: Tehran Fars News Agency (Internet Version-WWW) in English -- (Khabargozari-ye Fars) is a privately-owned news agency. It began operating in mid November 2002. Its managing editor is Mehdi Faza'eli, the editor in chief of the Javan daily and a member of the managerial board of the Association of Muslim Journalists. The other members of the board of directors of the news agency, are Alizera Shemirani, of Farda newspaper, Abdollah Moqaddam and Akbar Nabavi of Resalat newspaper, the former director of Farabi Foundation Hasan Eslami-Mehr, and university professor Abolhoseyn Ruholamin.)
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City/Source: Tehran
DIALOG Update Date: 20060717; 12:33:28 EST
Descriptors: International Political; Military
Geographic Codes: IRN; LBN
Geographic Names: Iran; Lebanon; Middle East
NewsEdge Document Number: 200607171477.1_f23800344eb817d4
Original Source Language: English
Region: Middle East
Posted on 17 July 2006 @ 22:44 GMT
IDF thwarts Hizbullah infiltration attempt at northern border
07.18.06, 00:24 IDT:
IDF forces identified a cell of Hizbullah operatives attempting to infiltrate Israeli territory.
Soldiers opened fire and hit the gunmen. None of the soldiers was wounded.
Posted on 17 July 2006 @ 22:44 GMT
Coming attractions
3 reserves battalions to be drafted in upcoming days:
Three reserves battalions – infantry, engineers, and artillery – will be drafted in upcoming days and will replace regular forces in Judea and Samaria.
This is in order to allow the regular forces to tale part in IDF operations in the north.
Posted on 17 July 2006 @ 22:21 GMT
Dead men talking
Hizbullah rejects ceasefire terms:
Hizbullah on Monday rejected a ceasefire on terms dictated by Israel.
“We accept no conditions for a ceasefire, whatever the pressure," Abdullah Kasir, a member of Hizbullah's central committee, told AFP.
Sources in Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s office said during the weekend that the possibility of a ceasefire will not be considered before three conditions are met: The release of the kidnapped IDF soldier’s by Hizbullah, the cessation of rocket attacks on Israel from Lebanon and the disarming of Hizbullah in accordance with UN Resolution 1559.
Medical center hit as barrages renewed on North:
Sirens sounded in the eastern Galilee, Rosh Pina, Carmiel and Safed once again Monday night, and rocket barrages were fired towards communities in the eastern Galilee and Upper Galilee.
A barrage hit a medical center in the Galilee, and windows shattered in the resulting shock waves.
Deputy head of the medical center told Ynet, “The rocket hit infrastructure, water pipes. The top floor was evacuated and moved to the lower floor. Fourteen employees suffered shock.
Another rocket hit a sensitive facility and two people were lightly wounded. A fire broke out in Maalot following a rocket hit, and fire fighting crews were working to extinguish it.
In Safed, eleven people were wounded when a rocket hit the town. One of them suffered moderate wounds and the others were treated for light wounds. An additional three rockets hit open areas around Haifa area; no casualties or damage were reported.
A farming community south of Kiryat Shmona reported three wounded after a rocket barrage pounded the area. On was lightly wounded and the other two suffered shock.
As following attacks earlier this week, after the barrages Hizbullah broadcast a message saying it fired rockets towards Haifa.
Alarms were activated repeatedly, and residents reported hearing explosions echo through the region. Residents were told to take shelter in secure areas or bomb shelters. Sirens sent Nahariya, Haifa, Afula and valley residents into their shelters as well, but there were no reports of rockets hitting those areas.
Posted on 17 July 2006 @ 22:20 GMT