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How many cease-fires have there been in the Middle East — or is the number too large to remember? Over the past half century, there must have been more cease-fires in the Middle East than in the rest of the world combined. What will this latest cease-fire do? It will give Hezbollah a breather from Israeli retaliation and allow them time to get new shipments of military equipment from Iran, rebuild their military infrastructure and prepare for the next round of attacks on Israel. Why do these phony cease-fire scenarios keep getting repeated? Because there are too many people, including...

The French commander of UNIFIL, Maj.-Gen. Alain Pellegrini, said Tuesday that his peacekeeping force will not attempt to disarm Hizbullah. Dealing with Hizbullah, Pellegrini said, was an internal Lebanese matter, and the 15,000 UN troops to be deployed under his command would not get involved. It was up to Lebanon, he said, to deploy its army in the south and deal with the Hizbullah presence. Pellegrini said reinforcements for the UN personnel already in Lebanon were needed quickly, because even one "stray act" could sabotage the cease-fire between Israel and Hizbullah.

Israel's war with Hizbullah seemed to come to an end on Monday, the first day of quiet after a UN-brokered cease-fire went into effect at 8 a.m. following more than a month of fighting. Senior officers told The Jerusalem Post the IDF planned to begin withdrawing troops from Lebanon by the end of the week and to begin releasing thousands of reservists back to their homes. On Monday, high-ranking IDF officers met with officials from UNIFIL at the Rosh Hanikra crossing and discussed the planned handover of southern Lebanon to the multinational force - made up of an upgraded UNIFIL...

Survey: 58 percent believe Israel only achieved small part of objectives, if at all; Kadima, Labor would crash were elections held today, poll shows Ilan Marciano A Globes-Smith survey published on Monday showed that the majority of Israelis (52 percent) believe the IDF was unsuccessful in its Lebanon offensive, as opposed to 44 percent who believe the army did well. According to the survey, 58 percent of the public believes Israel achieved few if any objectives in the war, up from 16 percent 11 days ago. The survey showed that only 3 percent of Israelis believe that the country achieved...

Write the president and tell him this cease fire brought on by his administration is just another attempt to appease the terrorist. Terrorist win yet again. Iran is still trumping around in Lebanon, the UN with no real authority has no real powers to disarm hezbollah who has NOT agreed to disarm. Iran still has agents in Iraq running death squads and terror cells. Muqtada-AL-Sadr being the most famous one. When will the US buckle up and do what finally needs to be done instead of worry about oil prices? We all know what this cease fire will bring. Take...

CNN Is saying live on t.v. that 10 katyushas were fired from nothern lebanon towards israel!

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While the damage caused Israel’s military reputation tops Western assessments of the Lebanon war, DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources report an entirely different perception taking hold in ruling circles in Tehran. After UN Security Council resolution 1701 calling for a truce was carried Friday, Aug. 11, the heads of the regime received two separate evaluations of the situation in Lebanon – one from Iran’s foreign ministry and one from its supreme national security council. Both were bleak: their compilers were concerned that Iran had been manipulatively robbed of its primary deterrent asset ahead of a probable nuclear confrontation with the United States...

Hezbollah today distributed leaflets congratulating Lebanon on its “big victory” and thanking citizens for their patience during the 34-day war with Israel. Supporters of the guerrilla group were seen passing out leaflets to cars heading south on the Zahrani highway, which connects the hard-hit southern cities of Nabatiyeh, Tyre and Sidon. “Congratulations to you on the big victory, with the support of God, the mujahedeen (holy warriors) and your patience,” it read. The flyers also warned people not to touch any suspicious objects, which could be unexploded ordnance. Israeli warplanes had blanketed leaflets over large areas of Lebanon during the...

TEL AVIV, Israel — With a cease-fire appearing to unravel even before it begins, Israel is facing a protracted war under a divided government. At the insistence of the government's political opposition and other parties, plans are already under way to launch a formal inquiry in the Knesset into what went wrong in what many here are calling the worst defeat in Israel's history. The inquiry also will explore a further indignity: how the Jewish state has come for the first time to agree to negotiate the relinquishment of land, the Shebaa Farms, in direct response to a deliberate act...

UN Israel Lebanon Ceasefire Broken By Hezbollah By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Tel Aviv----August 14...... Just 4 hours after a UN brokered Israel Lebanon ceasefire was to take affect, the terror organization Hezbollah attacked an IDF force in south Lebanon. "A group of armed Hezbollah terrorists approached an IDF force in the south Lebanon village of Hadatha," an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson told the Israel News Agency. "The IDF force took defensive positions, requested that they lay their arms down, fired warning shots and then fired at the approaching Hezbollah terrorists. The firefight occurs over a short period of...

If America got fed up with Israel and decided to accede to a UN “ceasefire” resolution, there were reasons for it. For a month an inexperienced Israeli prime minister who had said he was tired of fighting and wanted to turn Israel into a fun place, with an underqualified defense minister at his side, paraded Israel’s delusions in an effort to defeat Hezbollah on the cheap. First was the attempt to triumph from the air—a basic plank of Olmert’s “disengagement” and “convergence” philosophy that says Israel can safely cede territory to its worst enemies because the air force can handle...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel halted its offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas as a U.N.-imposed cease-fire went into effect Monday after a month of warfare that killed more than 900 people, devastated much of south Lebanon and forced hundreds of thousands of Israelis into bomb shelters. A half hour after the cease-fire took hold, Israeli warplanes - a regular fixture in Lebanese skies during the monthlong war - were absent across huge swaths of the country, including the Bekaa Valley, where airstrikes hit about an hour before. Thousands of cars packed with luggage and some with mattresses strapped to the roof jammed...

Rift over disarming Hezbollah The guns were supposed to fall silent in Israel and Lebanon early today, ending a month of combat that has killed more than 900 people. But troubling signs emerged yesterday as to how Lebanon, Hezbollah and Israel would interpret and implement the United Nations-brokered truce, raising the possibility of a continuation of major fighting. Amid internal feuding, the Lebanese cabinet postponed a meeting to vote on implementing the ceasefire. Although officials were reluctant to publicly describe the disagreements, a rift appeared to be developing over the disarmament of Hezbollah, which the resolution demands. Interior Minister Ahmed...

The cease-fire in the Middle East has taken effect. The Air Force, Navy, artillery and other units were ordered to halt all offensive operations. Since fighting erupted 34 days ago, 166 Israelis were killed - 114 IDF soldiers and 52 civilians. While the ceasefire agreement was "fragile," the IDF planned to uphold its side to the agreement and to suspend all offensives against the guerrilla group Monday morning, a high-ranking officer in the Northern Command told The Jerusalem Post Sunday night. On Sunday, the IDF completed taking up positions along the Litani River in preparation for the ceasefire. IDF troops...

Lebanon's ambassador to the UN said that his government would not use force to ensure the dismantling of Hizbullah, sources said early Sunday morning. He claimed that Hizbullah would independently be responsible for leaving south Lebanon. "We could have completed a cease-fire by Sunday morning, but Israel insisted on destroying the essence of Lebanon," the ambassador commented while being interviewed by CNN.

The most hypocritical people on earth The politicians, journalists and intellectuals of Lebanon have, of late, been experiencing the shock of their lives. They knew full well that Hezbollah had created an independent state in our country, a state including all the ministers and parallel institutions, duplicating those of Lebanon. What they did not know – and are discovering with this war, and what has petrified them with surprise and terror – is the extent of this phagocytosis. In fact, our country had become an extension of Iran, and our so-called political power also served as a political and military...

August 14, 2006 | Episode #26Crisis in the skies, Middle East and IndonesiaGlobal Crisis Watch calls Washington, Jerusalem and Jakarta, and tackles the intel surrounding the foiled al Qaeda attack on U.S. and British airlines with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross of the Gerard Group, the implications of the cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel with the Counterterrorism Blog's Bill Roggio, Nir Boms of the Center for Freedom in the Middle East and Leah Soibel of the Israel Project, and the war against radical Islam waging in Indonesian theaters with renowned filmmaker Joko Anwar.Link: http://www.GlobalCrisisWatch.com/gcw/gcw_060814.mp3 29.5 minutes | 13 Megs Global Crisis Watch is...

Israel intends to abide by the cease-fire when it takes effect on Monday morning, even though senior Israeli officials assume that Hizbullah will not honor it, officials close to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday night. The officials said the working assumption at the Prime Minister's Office was that Hizbullah would not honor the agreement and that the world would then comprehend Israel's predicament more than ever. At press time, the Lebanese cabinet had not given final approval to the cease-fire. "When Hizbullah violates the cease-fire, the world will see who the aggressor is and will understand us," a...

Israel's cabinet approved the U.N. cease-fire deal Sunday, clearing a key hurdle to ending the monthlong Mideast war, but said Israel will withdraw from south Lebanon only when the Lebanese army and international forces deploy. The 24-0 vote, with one abstention, came as Israeli airstrikes pounded Beirut. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said the war has brought "a change in the rules of the game" between Israel and Lebanon. Ms. Livni urged Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora and the international community to implement a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for an end to the fighting and the mobilization of Lebanese...