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8/1 Middle East Live Thread
Middle East Live Thread ^ | 8/1/06 | BurbankKarl

Posted on 07/31/2006 9:38:15 PM PDT by BurbankKarl

The wife and father of kidnapped Israeli soldier Ehud Goldwasser, Karnit, holding a wedding photograph, and Shlomo Goldwasser arrive at Heathrow Airport in London, Monday July 31, 2006. Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers on July 12, triggering an Israeli offensive against Lebanon that has killed hundreds of people, mostly civilians.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Israel
KEYWORDS: 2006israelwar; daralislam; dhimmis; dhimmitude; hezbollah; humanshieldsrus; iran; islam; israel; lebanon; middleeast; muhammadsminions; muslimcaliphate
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To: jhp

I think it more likely that it was disinformation. However, we will just have to wait and see. I would point out to you, however, that the Israelis don't do a bunch of leaking, unlike the American government, particularly the STATE department.


1,741 posted on 08/01/2006 6:30:08 PM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: Timeout

dont feel bad...my 74 yer old mother registered today....getting her on this daily thread...lost dad a few years ago and this will keep her company...I got her a big ol comcast pipe and a fast machine


1,742 posted on 08/01/2006 6:30:12 PM PDT by halfright (9/11 3,000 Americans MURDERED...close the borders! N O W !!! Semper Fi !!)
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To: All

This night will go down in history!


1,743 posted on 08/01/2006 6:30:30 PM PDT by Mossad1967
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To: 4butnomorethan30characters

If that first wacky report was the insertion, and the latest was the extraction, we should hear something official from the Israeli Army in about an hour, once everybody's out of there.

"Lebanese sources" so far have said the hospital was in use, was a military headquarters, and was abandoned. I'd say we're at the "the more we hear, the less we know" stage.


1,744 posted on 08/01/2006 6:30:43 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg
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To: cajungirl
Hospital is in the outskerts of Baalabek. It is used as a Hezb Allah base. I have heard it is to the West or North.
1,745 posted on 08/01/2006 6:30:46 PM PDT by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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To: bnelson44

that's what it sounds like. but 24x7 close air support, for days or weeks, is a tall order.


1,746 posted on 08/01/2006 6:30:50 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: mware

Whew, not as bad as I thought, huh?

I need to break anyway... dinner, etc.


1,748 posted on 08/01/2006 6:31:27 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Make your choice and save your tears....AM YISRAEL CHAI!)
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To: oceanview

Won't be that long.


1,749 posted on 08/01/2006 6:31:44 PM PDT by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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To: sofaman
I don't know if this has been posted. That Charles Krauthammer is one smart dude. He wrote this in APRIL, 2002:
Watch Lebanon. If you want to know where the Israeli-Palestinian war is going, watch Lebanon. If the war goes — literally — ballistic, the fuse will have been lit by the Iran-backed Hezbollah guerrillas now firing rockets into Israel from Lebanon.

But did Israel not withdraw from Lebanon almost two years ago? Why is there still a problem with Lebanon?

Indeed, Israel had been in Lebanon for about 20 years. It was a classic defensive occupation. Israel laid claim to not an inch of Lebanese soil. It diverted not a drop of water. It had no interest in staying. It was in there for one reason: to protect Israel's northern frontier from various guerrillas — first Yasser Arafat's PLO, then the Lebanese Shiite Party of God (Hezbollah) — using south Lebanon to attack Israel.

Yet for two decades, Israel was hectored to comply with U.N. resolutions demanding Israel's withdrawal. In May 2000, it complied. To ensure that there could be no possible residual territorial dispute, Israel asked the United Nations to draw the line demarcating the true Israeli-Lebanese border — the so-called Blue Line — then pulled back behind it.

Israel's reward?

Hezbollah was not mollified. While its ostensible mission was the liberation of Lebanese territory, it did not disband. On the contrary. It occupied south Lebanon, imported huge new supplies of weapons from Iran and began sporadic cross-border attacks on Israel..."

And this:
"Hezbollah is armed with 8,000 Katyusha rockets. Practically all of northern Israel lies under its guns. They are ready for firing. Hezbollah's spiritual leader, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, threatened Monday to hit Haifa with Katyusha rockets if Israel dared to respond to Hezbollah attacks.

Were that to happen, the northern front would explode. Israel has been sending urgent messages through the United Nations and the United States that it would not tolerate such aggression. It would be forced to counterattack — on Lebanon, on Syrian army positions in Lebanon and possibly on Syria itself, Syria being Hezbollah's boss and patron.

Syria could not withstand such an Israeli attack conventionally. It might then launch its missiles equipped with chemical weapons into Israeli cities. And that could trigger Armageddon. Israel was established so that never again would the gassing of Jews be permitted.

Not only, therefore, is Lebanon the most dangerous piece of tinder in the region. It is the most instructive. The Arabs claim that their grievance is Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Give it back and you'll have land for peace. Like the Lebanon peace?..."

Hat tip: NRO's the Corner---Rich Lowry
1,750 posted on 08/01/2006 6:32:00 PM PDT by Timeout (I hate MediaCrats!)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Maybe you never watched it (or maybe you did) but Sara Jessica Parker's character 'Carrie' on Sex in the City was a punster and I am sure they had a blast writing stuff for that character. I loved it.


1,751 posted on 08/01/2006 6:32:05 PM PDT by RDTF ("We love death. The US loves life. That is the big difference between us two.” Osama Bin laden)
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To: sofaman
Oh, look! A shiny thing!

Sluggy Freelance fan?

1,752 posted on 08/01/2006 6:32:06 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Fire Murtha Now! Spread the word. Support Diana Irey. http://www.irey.com/)
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To: 4butnomorethan30characters

and maybe the light is the hospital glowing in the dark, not flares after all...


1,754 posted on 08/01/2006 6:32:35 PM PDT by sofaman ("Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." Groucho Marx)
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To: sofaman
A palindrome? The Palindrome of Bolton would be Notlob.

Amd Speaking of Bolton are we going to get to see him lay down some smack in the UN again any time soon?
1,755 posted on 08/01/2006 6:32:45 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: sofaman

David Horowitz on FOX


1,756 posted on 08/01/2006 6:32:48 PM PDT by SoCalPol (We Need A Border Fence Now)
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To: halfright

good for you! Sure wish my mom would try to use a computer


1,757 posted on 08/01/2006 6:32:48 PM PDT by RDTF ("We love death. The US loves life. That is the big difference between us two.” Osama Bin laden)
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To: bnelson44; oceanview

Thanks. Now where is Batchelor?


1,758 posted on 08/01/2006 6:33:16 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: La Enchiladita

You may have heard it right, La Enchiladita. Quite a bombshell if so.


1,759 posted on 08/01/2006 6:33:29 PM PDT by JustaCowgirl (JOHN BOLTON FOR PRESIDENT!)
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To: halfright

KEWL! Hope your Mom feels right at home. You might check out some of the "dailies" to see if she would enjoy them...they tend to become like little clubs.


1,760 posted on 08/01/2006 6:33:51 PM PDT by Timeout (I hate MediaCrats!)
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