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On Wednesday, the security cabinet authorized a plan put forward by the American security coordinator in the territories, General Keith Dayton, to bolster Palestinian security forces loyal to Abbas in the Gaza Strip.
However, this authorization was only in principle, and Israel has yet to give a green light for either the delivery of additional arms to Abbas or the entry into Gaza of the Badr Brigade, a Palestine Liberation Organization force currently stationed in Jordan.
The question of how to bolster Abbas was also at the center of a meeting of Quartet representatives in London last week. The participants - representing the U.S., European Union, Russia and the UN - discussed the implementation of three existing accords: a November 2005 agreement on the Gaza border crossings, the Sharm al-Sheikh understandings of February 2005, and the road map peace plan.
They agreed that Israel should be asked to allow expanded operations at the Rafah and Karni crossings into Gaza, and also to enable free passage between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Israel will also be asked to remove the checkpoints that impede the free flow of traffic in the West Bank.
Meanwhile, the British government is promoting a plan to bypass Hamas and strengthen the PA by bolstering four institutions directly answerable to Abbas: the border crossings authority, the monetary authority, the presidential guard and the legal system. Norway, for its part, is calling a conference of PA donor countries.
Of course they undermine the prime minister, they give legitimacy to hezbollah by making israel seem as the "bad guy" to the lebanese people. I mean when i went to school there they used to scare us with sonic booms virtually every day, whats the point really?
The Israelis should tell the US officials to STFU and let them do what they have to do.
Give me a break... unbelievable. Let me go check on this...
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Lebanese leaders call for unity [All of them support the terrorists. ...always have.]
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1668991/posts
See "Maronite."
Ping?
"such flights undermine the standing of Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora"
but the presence of Hezbully not?
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Makes sense to me, this will make it easier for Hizbollah to rearm. And since Abbas is "exhibiting weakness," and the main question is whether it is possible to strengthen him - and if so, how., we're rearming his terrorists. Prisoners, they ain't got no prisoners, which is why their status isn't brought up.
We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest. And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism . Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
A fine political speach, but our enemies know it's application is selective.
Israel should tell Condi/Nicholas Burns/Kerry Rice that it
would be happy to suspend the flights when the US achieves actual enforcement of the UN resolutions that are supposed to prevent the rearming of Hezbolla.
If the US and the UN are so feckless, with regard to Hezbolla, they have no right to demand anything of Israel, regarding Lebanon.
What they need to do is give the Unifil force the mandate and the ability to disarm Hezbolla, in the absence of any actual affective, working government in Lebanon that is capable of carrying out its responsibilities agreed to in the UN resolutions.
Barring that (which we know will not happen), the Condi/Burns/Kerry State Department should shut up, because they are doing nothing but providing defacto sanctioning of the rearming of Hezbolla, while complaining simply because Israel is keeping itself informed of that rearming effort.
In the face of the broken UN agreements, Israel could, legitimately, resume its own Hezbolla disarmament efforts.
The State Dept. is so right. The Israelis should send cruise missiles instead.
Baloney.
If true, may I submit a request to the Bush administration to stand down. Why? In the not so distant future, the IAF will need to fly over Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Well, unless we want to let the IAF use a CVN for about two hours. Maybe three...(I don't know how long the mission over Persia will take).
5.56mm
However with this 'restraining' being put back on Israel can only spell trouble for the USA.
Remember the promise God made to the Jews: I will Bless those who bless (help) you and CURSE those who curse (harm) you!
In other news, Israeli diplomats in Washington, DC demanded that the U.S. withdraw troops from South Korea and Japan.
/sarc