Bob Morris @ Jul 26th 2006 14:50 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Lebanon;
They’ve gone completely bat-shit insane, haven’t they?
PS Israel troops ‘ignored’ UN plea
UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon contacted Israeli troops 10 times before an Israeli bomb killed four of them, an initial UN report says.
The post was hit by a precision-guided missile after six hours of shelling, diplomats familiar with the probe say.
Bob Morris @ Jul 26th 2006 11:19 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Lebanon;
Problems with Israeli military performance
The Israelis are finding that the Hizbullah guerrillas have excellent intelligence on Israeli weaponry, and that they are capable of fighting orderly tactical battles from buildings with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. In other words, they are not facing the militia of tobacco share croppers. They are facing a highly professional military force, perhaps the most professional in the region aside from Israel’s own.
Hezbollah is homegrown, something the neocons (and Democrats) appear incapable of understanding. They are a guerilla army supported by the people, and would not exist without that support.
The Israeli military is rapidly scaling back its military goals, since the ones initially announced with such confidence (pushing Hizbullah back 35 miles and completely destroying its missile arsenal) are obviously pie in the sky. The Israelis are stumbling around so badly that yesterday they lost a helicopter and killed 6 of their own men (it could have been much worse).
My friend is an old Middle East hand who has some good sources on the Israeli side, mostly ex-military and ex-Mossad, plus some contacts among the Bush I realist crowd — although of course they’re not in government any more either.
He didn’t have any secret dope on what the next military or diplomatic moves will be — it seems to be purely day-to-day now — but he DID get a clear sense that the Americans and the Israelis both understand now that they are in serious danger of losing the war.
Saudi king says Israel attacks threaten wider war
Hezbollah chief threatens a wider war
Bob Morris @ Jul 26th 2006 00:16 - Category: Anti-war Tags: Lebanon;
Defend the People of Palestine & Lebanon!
Stop the U.S.-Israeli War!
Saturday, August 12, 1 pm
Olympic & Broadway, downtown Los Angeles
The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, the National Council of Arab Americans and the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation have jointly initiated a National Emergency March on Washington on Aug 12, with coordinated marches in Los Angeles and San Francisco, in defense of the people of Palestine and Lebanon who are under brutal attack by the U.S.-backed Israeli government. On August 12, thousands will gather across the United States to demand an end to the U.S.-Israeli war on the Middle East.
Bob Morris @ Jul 26th 2006 00:12 - Category: Anti-war Tags: Lebanon;
Some House Democrats want the Iraqi prime minster’s speech to them cancelled because he, imagine the insolence, won’t parrot the US line on Israel. They’re even threatening to boycott.
And get this, Speaker of the House Hasfert is playing the moderate against them, saying the PM certainly will not be disinvited (while laughing up his sleeve at Democrats who are trying to be more right-wing than neocons while pretending to sort of oppose that other war.)
As for netroots darling Ned “Anti-war Lite” Lamont, why his views on the Lebanon invasion are as myopically one-sided and pro-Israel as his opponent, ultra-Zionist Joe Lieberman. Except Lamont’s so clueless he thinks the US should not, you know, force anyone to do anything, and certainly not actually speak to Hamas or Hezbollah. but nonetheless somehow should magically make peace happen. Pixie dust, anyone? As if US policy wasn’t directly responsible for the invasion in the first place.
And it is precisely because America and Israel are losing influence over global events, that an American attack upon Iran in 2007 becomes more likely.
God help us all.
Like Foghorn Leghorn says to the little chickenhawk in the Warner Brothers cartoons, “Is any of this getting THROUGH, son???” Not through to Democrats, that’s for sure.
If insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results, then the Democrats fit the definition, Both in their brain-dead attempt to move to the right to grab votes from Republicans (a ’strategy’ that has been a spectacular failure) and now, yet again, playing mini-Me cheerleading for more wars, forgetting the last two wars they backed have been failures, and, oh yeah, they’re supposed to be against them now, right? How deeply clueless they are. “No guts, no blood, no brains at all.”
Meanwhile, in the real world, Annan: Israel airstrike ‘deliberate’ on UN post
Bob Morris @ Jul 26th 2006 00:07 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Lebanon;
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