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Back to Story - Help Israel pullout to stop if Lebanon army does not deploy 52 minutes ago Israel could withdraw its forces from southern Lebanon within 10 days, but only if the Lebanese army deploys quickly in the area, Israel's army chief of staff, Dan Halutz, said on Wednesday."The withdrawal of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) within 10 days is dependent upon the deployment of the Lebanese army," Halutz told parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, according to a spokesman."If the Lebanese army does not move down within a number of days to the south ... the way...

The modern state of Israel has made a series of security blunders of enormous magnitude over the last two decades that have in large part resulted in the current nightmare in Northern Israel. Israel has initiated and pursued sophmoric & dangerous policy decisions that have created the ideal operating theatre for its genocidal enemies, both in terms of the military and political environment. Israel foolishly brought this war upon itself, fought a fool’s war, and is now making a fool’s peace. Make no mistake - this U.N. Resolution will neither bring peace or security to this region - but it...

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Islamic Jihad fired rockets similar to Hizballah's katyushas at the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Monday just as the cease-fire between Israel and the Hizballah terrorist organization was beginning to take hold. But even before the cease-fire, a Hamas columnist said that Palestinians would be the greatest beneficiaries of what he called the Hizballah victory. He said it paved the way for a third Palestinian uprising. Writing in the Hamas paper Al-Risala, columnist Ibrahim Abu Heija said that the "Palestinian resistance" [a euphemism for terrorism] would be the "greatest beneficiary" of what he called Hizballah's victory....

Another in Conservative Humor Net’s sporadic series on how today’s media would have covered previous wars and other crises. NAZIS ASK FOR 3-DAY HUMANITARIAN CEASEFIRE: WORLD OPINION ATTACKS U.S. REFUSAL Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, above, made the Nazi official call for the three-day humanitarian cease-fire, warning that Hitler would get very, very, very angry if refused. Hitler, below, caresses some of the school children who recently volunteered for the army, 12-year old boys recruited to attack Russian, British and American tanks with handheld weapons. What love the Furher shows! Who can doubt he will not keep his promise to use...

The New York Times has done it again. In their latest soft selling of the terror organization, Hezbullah, The Times is revealing the kinder, gentler side of the outlaw group to help us all better understand how wonderful they really are. Even the title almost seems nice... "Holding a Gun, Hezbollah Lends a Hand", it read. But wait! Apparently The New York Times thought even that title was too harsh. They later changed the name of the piece to "Charity Wins Deep Loyalty for Hezbollah". Best to get that nasty "gun" word out of there, I suppose. Why, we can't...

The National Debate over Islamism is Long Overdue M. Zuhdi Jasser Chairman, American Islamic Forum for Democracy In Wednesday’s Washington Times, it was refreshing to see Tony Blankley lead the way in demanding that the American public start asking more questions about Islamism. He asks the questions which very few are asking and yet seems so obvious after so long into this war. The unrelenting series of Islamist terrorist actions around the world could not be disconnected groups when they all share the same Islamist ideological goals. Hezbullah and its recent prelude to war against Israel cannot be “Just another...

Jefferson Morley writes about the international online media for the Washington Post. He is sneering at conservative websites which dared to raise questions about the troubling inconsistencies in reports, and some very curious photographs that seem, well, posed to extract maximum outrage over the deaths of children in Qana. He throws around the phrase “conspiracy theory” and invokes a comparison to the 9/11-as-inside job theorists. Sneering at conservatives would seem to come naturally to someone who has written for The American Prospect and The Nation. Self-identification as a liberal or leftist does not seem to come so easily, of course....

A French language Lebanese publication, citing an unnamed source in Hezbollah, has claimed that the organization placed a rocket launcher on the roof of the notorious building in Qana to provoke an Israeli attack and brought invalid children inside to serve as victims and blacken Israel's name. The Lebanese magazine LIBANOSCOPIE, associated with Christian elements which support the anti-Syrian movement called the "March 14 Forces," report that Hizbullah masterminded a plan that would result in the killing of innocents in Qana, in an attempt to foil Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's "Seven Points Plan" calling for deployment of the Lebanese...

What do Hizbullah dangeroues armed top commanders do in an (Arab Muslim) hospital?You wouldn't see any "protests" to protest the Muslim on Muslim crimes on their own people, these Hizbollah "freedom fighters" would dance again once a bomb unintentionally kills a hospital pacient, claimg again to be "the innocent victims" in it all and of course blaming Israelis that are the ONLY ONES THERE, in that jungle of bloody murderers to be careful NOT to hit at civilians. http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=108987 IDF Commandos Raid Hizbullah Hospita ... the hospital, which was built for Hizbullah by Iran. ... terrorists and arrested several patients...

EU: No intent yet to add Hizbullah to terror list Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja says, ‘Given the sensitive situation, I don't think this is something we will be acting on now’ News Agencies  P{margin:0;} UL{margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;margin-right: 16; padding-right:0;} OL{margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;margin-right: 32; padding-right:0;}The European Union does not intend to place Hizbullah on its list of terrorist organizations for the time being, EU President Finland said on Tuesday. "Given the sensitive situation, I don't think this is something we will be acting on now," Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, told a news conference following an emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.  Tuomioja's...

For an update on this post, see here. Certainly, the photographs are distressing, and indeed they are meant to be. As this piece tells us: Until recent years, images of civilian casualties in wars often took days to appear in newspapers, but now they can be captured and transmitted around the world to newspaper Web sites, where they are posted immediately, adding to the shock value that sketchy words by reporters often cannot capture. This happened again Sunday morning in the case of the Israeli air strike on the Lebanese village of Qana that left dozens dead, reportedly at...

Photos that damn Hezbollah Chris Link July 30, 2006 12:00am THIS is the picture that damns Hezbollah. It is one of several, smuggled from behind Lebanon's battle lines, showing that Hezbollah is waging war amid suburbia. The images, obtained exclusively by the Sunday Herald Sun, show Hezbollah using high-density residential areas as launch pads for rockets and heavy-calibre weapons. Dressed in civilian clothing so they can quickly disappear, the militants carrying automatic assault rifles and ride in on trucks mounted with cannon. The photographs, from the Christian area of Wadi Chahrour in the east of Beirut, were taken by...

Excuse me but I'm rather angry this morning. The pictures from the Middle East are deeply disturbing. The children of Qana, Lebanon, look very much like my own children - beautiful deep brown eyes and brown curls, smiling for the cameras. Now, several dozen of those children are dead. We have failed the children of the Middle East. We've failed them because we could have stopped this two decades ago. We didn't have to forget. It's not just the children of Qana who have died as a result of Hezbullah's crimes. Plenty of Americans have died too over the past...

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"How to have dead Arab kids and blame Israeli victims for it"Who will investigate Qana 2? So the Islamists killed their "civilian" children again in Lebanon?So we know that the Israelis have bombed the Hezbullah rocket SOURCE on 1:00 AM whereas the building (nearby?) collapsed at 8:00 AM, How come and why so many children among the dead and so many hours later?The only explanation is that Hezbullah SUCCESSFUL smear campaign to cause civilian Arab dead and pin it on the Israelis, it's desperation for it is to "blame".At what price will they stop?Remember the Muhammad Al Dura where Arabs...

The Madison moonbats are at it again... They are going to spit on the US flag and at the US and Israeli soldiers who are bravely fighting the terrorists that would kill everybody (even the moonbats). We must show the lefties that not everyone agrees with their assessment. From the Madison Peace alliance website... Date: Next Week - Thursday, August 03 2006 from 4:30 to 6 pm Location: Outside 14 West Mifflin Street, Sen Herb Kohl's Office, next door to Veteran's Museum, at top of State St. on Square Sponsored By: Madison Area Peace Coalition, Madison Rafah Sister City Project,...

President Bush declined Thursday to criticize Israel's tactics in its continuing offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon, and gave a sharp condemnation of Iran's role in the bloody fighting. "Hezbollah attacked Israel. I know Hezbollah is connected to Iran," Bush said tersely at the end of Oval Office meetings with Romanian President Traian Basescu. "Now is the time for the world to confront this danger," Bush said. The president was responding to statements from top Israeli officials that fighting could continue for several weeks more. Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon said world leaders, in failing to call for an...

I am going to write a completely speculative piece on the fighting in Lebanon. It's born of a need to make sense of events which on the face of it are incomprehensible, though by so doing the post detaches itself from verifiable fact. The reader is warned. Read on if you wish for entertainment but beware that what follows is hypothesis, there aren't even going to be hyperlinks for reference. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first question that must be answered in divining IDF intentions in Lebanon is what the center of gravity of the Hezbollah is, because that is what the IDF...

July 26, 2006 No.1213 Lebanese Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt on Al-Arabiya TV: Do Lebanese Really Agree That the Battle of the [Islamic] Nation Should Be Launched From Lebanon?; I Was First to Warn of the Iranian-Syrian Alliance; I Have the Right to Challenge Nasrallah's Heroism The following are excerpts from an interview with Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on July 20, 2006 [1]. TO VIEW THIS CLIP, VISIT: http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1201. Walid Jumblatt: "Hassan Nasrallah made the decision to go to war without consulting anyone." [...] "Today, the Lebanese state has become a kind of Red...

As Israel is in the fight for its people’s very survival, Congressman Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, has refused to support America’s important ally over the terrorist group, Hezbollah. On July 20, Abercrombie voted “No” on House Resolution 921 that his fellow Congressmen overwhelmingly approved by 410-8, and the Senate passed unanimously, which summed up by America’s Pro-Israeli Lobby, “strongly backing Israel’s right to self-defense and condemning Hezbollah and Hamas—and their sponsors Iran and Syria—for launching unprovoked acts of war against the Jewish State…and for Hezbollah to be disarmed and for the full weight of American financial, diplomatic, and economic sanctions to...