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Bush says he suspects Syria is trying to reassert influence in Lebanon
(23:26 , 07.18.06)
IDF: Reports of shell fire on UN convoy false
(23:14 , 07.18.06)
Hundreds protest outside Israeli Embassy in Greece
(23:08 , 07.18.06)
Foreign Ministry: 350 foreign journalists in Israel since onset of fighting
(23:01 , 07.18.06)
Report: UN envoy returns to Gaza City to coordinate his exit from Gaza
(22:39 , 07.18.06)
Qassam hits Sderot; no wounded
(22:27 , 07.18.06)
Olmert: I’ll make sure Israeli citizens not subject to rocket assaults
(22:24 , 07.18.06)
Palestinans: IDF fired artillery at UN envoy’s convoy
(22:16 , 07.18.06)
Report: Katyusha rockets fired on Nahariya area
(22:02 , 07.18.06)
Olmert: Hizbullah operation designed to distract attention away from Iran
(22:00 , 07.18.06)
IDF: Hizbullah preventing civilians from leaving villages in southern Lebanon
(21:41 , 07.18.06)
Katyusha rocket barrage slams into northern border communities; no injuries
(21:20 , 07.18.06)
Rice says a cease-fire would have to grounded in lasting changes
(21:15 , 07.18.06)
IDF officials: Rocket fired at Ashkelon while IDF shelled north Gaza
(21:01 , 07.18.06)
Iranian President Ahmadinejad: Day of happiness for region near
(20:52 , 07.18.06)
Medical supply group Sar-El says will operate in crisis mode - 24-hrs a day
(20:51 , 07.18.06)
Syria's Assad not doing enough for stability - US
(20:43 , 07.18.06)
Qassam rockets lands in Lachish district for first time
(20:38 , 07.18.06)
At least 227 killed in Lebanon
(20:33 , 07.18.06)
White House: Return of situation on northern border to how it was is not acceptable
(20:27 , 07.18.06)
Major General Eizenkot : Over 1,000 terror targets in Lebanon struck
(19:52 , 07.18.06)
UNICIF: Half a million Lebanese turned into refugees
(19:43 , 07.18.06)
Lebanese minister charges: Israel trying to ‘starve Lebanese people’
(19:26 , 07.18.06)
Sirens sound in Haifa; residents told to take shelter
(19:11 , 07.18.06)
Saudi Arabia: Lebanon should extend authority over country
(19:03 , 07.18.06)
Red Cross transfers USD 250,000 to Lebanon
(19:01 , 07.18.06)
Rockets salvos pound Maalot area; 2 suffer shock
(18:57 , 07.18.06)
Nahariya: 3-story building destroyed by rocket
(18:37 , 07.18.06)
Magen David Adom: 1 dead, 30 wounded by rocket attacks on north
(18:34 , 07.18.06)
Britain: International community discussing ways to apply resolution 1559
(18:27 , 07.18.06)
More Americans flown out by helicopter from Lebanon
(18:22 , 07.18.06)
IAF hits 52 targets in Lebanon Tuesday
(18:06 , 07.18.06)
MDA: 8 injured from rocket attacks on Nahariya and Safed
(17:56 , 07.18.06)
Young man injured in explosion in Rahat; circumstances unclear
(17:55 , 07.18.06)
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18 July 2006
Hizballah supply lines struck in north Lebanon
IDF reports 12 roads to Syria attacked on Tuesday:
The IDF attacked 12 access routes connecting Lebanon and Syria throughout Tuesday in order to prevent the transfer of war materiel to Hizbullah fighters in southern Lebanon, the army said.
Posted on 18 July 2006 @ 21:20 GMT
"Come out, come out, wherever you are..."
IAF drops flyers over s. Lebanon mocking Nasrallah:
IDF planes on Tuesday night showered southern Lebanon with flyers making fun of Hizbullah head Hassan Nasrallah and calling on him to come out of hiding.
"Where are you hiding?" the flyers read in a mocking tone.
Posted on 18 July 2006 @ 20:36 GMT
Body Armor, Hizballah style
Such is the way the Party of Allah wages war.
IDF: Hizbullah preventing civilians from leaving villages in southern Lebanon:
The IDF has found that Hizbullah is preventing civilians from leaving villages in southern Lebanon. Roadblocks have been set up outside some of the villages to prevent residents from leaving, while in other villages Hizbullah is preventing UN representatives from entering, who are trying to help residents leave. In two villages, exchanges of fire between residents and Hizbullah have broken out.
Posted on 18 July 2006 @ 20:19 GMT
And the Jews keep coming home...
Since conflict started last week, 174 immigrants arrived in Israel. About 840 more anticipated in next two weeks:
As rockets continue to land in the north, hundreds of immigrants are landing in Israel, some of them asking specifically to live in northern Israel. In a heartwarming display of faith and Zionism, over a thousand immigrants, from a plethora of different countries, have arrived since the beginning of July, 174 of them since the beginning of the current conflict.
Ze'ev Boim, minister of immigrant absorption, praised this trend, saying "it is very important that immigrants are arriving now and it has a positive impact on Israeli morale." The statistics are exciting and reminiscent of the first Gulf War when immigrants, upon their arrival, received absorption benefits and a gas mask.
Later this week, 220 more immigrants from Canada and the United States are scheduled to arrive via the Nefesh B'Nefesh immigration and absorption assistance agency. Even more impressively, next Tuesday, 620 immigrants will arrive from France. The immigrants will be received with a festive ceremony in Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport, in which Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Boim, and the head of the Jewish Agency, Ze'ev Bilsky will take part, among others.
Posted on 18 July 2006 @ 20:18 GMT
The short and sweet of it
White House: Return of situation on northern border to how it was is not acceptable:
White House Spokesman Tony Snow said that a ceasefire that would return the situation (on the northern border) to how it was is not acceptable to the United States.
Note to Hassan Nasrallah: What this means, in the simplest terms, is that Israel will not be running out of jet fuel, 2,000lb bombs or diplomatic support for the foreseeable future. Govern yourself accordingly.
Posted on 18 July 2006 @ 19:27 GMT
We're a scary bunch of folks when we all get on the same page
Analysis: A deepening consensus - David Horovitz, THE JERUSALEM POST:
The rare degree of national unanimity behind this thinking was reflected in the respectful reception afforded Olmert in the Knesset on Monday night. For the first time in years, a prime minister was able to deliver a lengthy, nuanced address unhindered by heckling or other interruption. With Israel facing what he called "a moment of national truth," a man elected with an underwhelming majority spoke for a wider consensus than he ever has before.
Each passing day of the Israeli offensive against Hizbullah serves to emphasize the striking contrast between the attitude of this government and that of its immediate predecessors to Hizbullah's ever-bolder muscle flexing. The last time Sheikh Nasrallah tried his hand at a prisoner exchange deal, in 2004, Israel freed hundreds of prisoners for the captured "businessman" Elhanan Tennenbaum and the bodies of three soldiers. So it is easy to understand why he might have imagined a similarly glorious scenario, from his point of view, unfolding as he held up his two captured IDF soldiers as bargaining chips after last Wednesday's attack.
However improbably, with peacenik Amir Peretz at the Defense Ministry, a rather different Israeli response ensued: Not merely a readiness to take a calculated heavy risk on the lives of those two soldiers by hitting back at Hizbullah, but a readiness, too, to strike into residential areas of Lebanon where Hizbullah has secreted missiles. These were targets Nasrallah may have believed Israel would never have the stomach to strike, or the international tacit approval.
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Posted on 18 July 2006 @ 15:54 GMT
Harper stands up
Canadian Prime Minister Won't Criticize Israel for Canadian Deaths:
Prime Minister Stephen Harper offered his condolences Monday to the families of seven Canadians from Montreal killed in an Israeli bombing raid while visiting their families in Lebanon, but said he was not going to be critical of Israel for defending itself.
"We are not going to give in to the temptation of some to single out Israel, which was the victim of the initial attack," said Harper.
Posted on 18 July 2006 @ 15:29 GMT
IAF bombs 4 trucks carrying weapons from Syria to Lebanon
07.18.06, 16:16 IDT:
The Israel Air Force attacked four trucks carrying weapons from Syria to Lebanon as it was travelling through the valley close to the border between the two countries. A tunnel and a bunker east of Tyre in which Hizbullah operatives were staying were bombed as well.
The Air Force also attacked two Katyusha launchers as well as a bridge and an automobile next to the site.
Posted on 18 July 2006 @ 15:29 GMT
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.
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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.
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Report: IDF besieging Muqataa in Nablus
(03:52 , 07.19.06)
Bush discusses situation in Lebanon with Saudi king
(03:30 , 07.19.06)
US: Senate expresses support of Israel
(02:45 , 07.19.06)
Report: IDF tanks enter central Gaza Strip
(02:27 , 07.19.06)
Report: IAF strikes targets near Beirut
(02:15 , 07.19.06)
At least 237 killed in Lebanon since fighting broke out
(01:16 , 07.19.06)
Haifa: Social work students to help people in bomb shelters
(00:55 , 07.19.06)
Kiryat Gat mayor: Operating factories in Haifa increases danger
(00:34 , 07.19.06)
Katyusha rockets land in Hula Valley; no injuries
(00:14 , 07.19.06)
Al-Manar: IDF attacking in town of al-Hiyam
(00:03 , 07.19.06)
Report: Rice will visit Israel on Sunday or Monday
(23:49 , 07.18.06)
Amnesty urges UN Security Council to protect civilians in Middle East conflict
(23:47 , 07.18.06)
Bush says he suspects Syria is trying to reassert influence in Lebanon
(23:26 , 07.18.06)