The Israeli military began preparing to reoccupy southern Lebanon on Thursday, and Israeli officials conceded that their three-week bombing campaign has had no significant impact on Hezbollah's ability to fire short-range rockets into northern Israel.and now that they're gonna reoccupy lebanon, will they still pretend to be enforcing UN resolution 1559? you know, since the resolution calls for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from lebanon. or didn't they read that part?
The dispatch of thousands of Israeli soldiers to retake as much as one-fifth of Lebanon - the operation must still be approved by the Israeli Cabinet - would mark a major expansion in Israel's Lebanon campaign and would reverse Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon six years ago after a troubled 18-year occupation.
Thursday, August 03, 2006
anyone got a plan C?
now that israel is admitting that its plan A in lebanon has failed, it's falling back on plan B--the same plan that failed back in 2000 (and created hezbollah along the way):