Israel's Missed Boat in Lebanon

[L.P. Farnsworth]

Sunday night, May 11, the Israeli army was poised to strike Hizballah. The Shiite militia was winding up its takeover of West Beirut and battling pro-government forces in the North. When he opened the regular cabinet meeting Sunday, May 11, prime minister Ehud Olmert had already received the go-ahead from Washington for a military strike to halt the Hizballah advance. The message said that President George W. Bush would not call off his visit to Israel to attend its 60th anniversary celebrations and would arrive as planned Wednesday, May 14 - even if the Israeli army was still fighting in Lebanon and Hizballah struck back against Tel Aviv and Ben-Gurion airport.

American intelligence estimated that Hizballah was capable of retaliating against northern Israel at the rate of 600 missiles a day.

Olmert, defense minister Ehud Barak and foreign minister Tzipi Lvini, the only ministers in the picture, decided not to intervene in Lebanon’s civil conflict. Iran’s surrogate army consequently waltzed unchecked to its second victory in two years over the United States and Israel.

DEBKAfile’s US and military sources disclose the arguments Washington marshaled to persuade Israel to go ahead: Hizballah, after its electronic trackers had learned from the Israel army’s communication and telephone networks that not a single troop or tank was on the move, took the calculated risk of transferring more than 5,000 armed men from the South to secure the capture of West Beirut.

DEBKAfile - Israel’s Missed Boat in Lebanon

First, Olmert lets Condi Rice screw up the works in the last battle against these vermin, and now he lets a golden opportunity to aid Lebanese rebels in the fight to drive out IRan's militia and Syrian gangsters.

Olmert needs to go; he has no spine.

[North Pole Resident]

Originally Posted by Farnsworth, L.P.

[b]Sunday night, May 11, the Israeli army was poised to strike Hizballah.

Israel shows it ugly war face ONE MORE TIME.
Based on what right did Israel plan to kill people who live on their land.

Isreal is illegal state and should be eliminated. Even rabbi say that -

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[quote=North Pole Resident;28573]Israel shows it ugly war face ONE MORE TIME.
Based on what right did Israel plan to kill people who live on their land.

Isreal is illegal state and should be eliminated. Even rabbi say that -

No sect or group of people should be eliminated. That is murder.