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  • Driving Deep - Israel Resumes full-bore ground and air assault



    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14128276/

    Israeli, Hezbollah troops clash at border towns

    Military aims to push Hezbollah back to Litani River; Lebanese flee border




    Israeli soldiers walk back along the Israel-Lebanon border after a mission in the Lebanese village of Kafar Kilathe, close to the Israeli village of Metula, early Tuesday.

    BEIRUT, Lebanon - Heavy fighting raged Tuesday in the Lebanese border village of Aita al-Shaab, and Hezbollah television said 35 Israeli soldiers had been killed or wounded in the fighting. Israeli warplanes pounded Shiite Lebanese villages in many areas along the border and struck Hezbollah strongholds deep inside the country.

    Three weeks after the war erupted when Hezbollah snatched two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid, Israel’s security cabinet agreed to step up its offensive. But Israeli forces met fierce resistance from Hezbollah guerrillas who reportedly killed three soldiers.

    (excerpted as req'd)

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    • Re: Israel VS Hizbullah Part VI

      Intensification on the horizon

      Iran cleric calls for Hezbollah weapons
      http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060801/..._iran_cleric_2

      A senior cleric has called on Muslim states to provide weapons to Hezbollah to fight Israel, an Iranian news agency reported Tuesday.

      Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, the hard-line head of the powerful Guardian Council, was quoted by the semiofficial Iranian Students News Agency as saying that Islamic states should arm Hezbollah in fighting Israel in Lebanon.

      "Now, it is expected that Muslim states not spare any assistance to Hezbollah and the Lebanese people, especially providing weapons, medicine and food," Jannati told ISNA.

      Israel and the United States accuse Iran of arming Hezbollah but Tehran has repeatedly said it only provides moral support.

      The Guardian Council is a constitutional watchdog arbitrating between parliament and the government. Jannati is not considered a government official.
      Israel plans deeper push into Lebanon
      http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060801/...non_israel_653

      In a major expansion of its ground offensive, Israel has decided to send troops deeper into Lebanon to clear out Hezbollah fighters and secure the territory until a multinational force is deployed there, senior officials said Tuesday

      Israel hopes to complete the new push to the Litani River nearly 20 miles from the Israeli border in the next two weeks, Cabinet ministers said following a late Monday meeting.

      The meeting came amid a 48-hour suspension of most airstrikes by Israel, which was imposed after an airstrike over the weekend in the southern Lebanese town of Qana killed 56 Lebanese, more than half of them children. The attack sparked international outrage.

      Hezbollah also drastically cut back rocket attacks Monday, after firing an average of more than 100 rockets a day in three weeks of fighting.

      By early Tuesday, however, Israel had resumed air raids. Warplanes targeted a Hezbollah stronghold deep inside Lebanon and Hezbollah fighters battled with soldiers near the border. The Israeli army also reported heavy fighting between its troops and Hezbollah in the south Lebanon village Ayt ash Shab.

      A senior Iranian cleric called on Muslim states to provide weapons to Hezbollah to fight Israel, an Iranian news agency reported Tuesday. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, the hard-line head of the powerful Guardian Council, was quoted by the semiofficial Iranian Students News Agency as saying that Islamic states should arm Hezbollah in fighting Israel in Lebanon.

      "Now, it is expected that Muslim states not spare any assistance to Hezbollah and the Lebanese people, especially providing weapons, medicine and food," Jannati told ISNA.

      Israel and the United States accuse Iran of arming Hezbollah but Tehran has repeatedly said it only provides moral support.

      Diplomatic efforts to end the crisis faltered Monday, despite increased world pressure for a cease-fire after the devastating strike in Qana. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the offensive would continue until Hezbollah has been neutralized.

      "We will not give up on our goal to live a life free of terror," Olmert said.

      President Bush also resisted calls for an immediate halt to fighting, saying any peace deal must ensure that Hezbollah is crippled. He said Iran and Syria must stop backing the Shiite militant group with money and weapons.

      "As we work with friends and allies, it's important to remember this crisis began with Hezbollah's unprovoked attacks against Israel. Israel is exercising its right to defend itself," Bush said Monday.

      Israel's Cabinet decision paved the way for a significantly broader ground offensive.

      Up to now, several thousand soldiers had been engaged in the operation, fighting house-to-house battles with hundreds of Hezbollah fighters in Lebanese towns and villages close to the border. Last week, the Cabinet called up some 30,000 reserve soldiers, many of whom reported to their bases earlier this week to begin training.

      Defense official said they expected thousands more soldiers to be sent to Lebanon as part of the expanded offensive. "We have reached the stage where we have to expand the operation," said Defense Minister Amir Peretz, without giving the dimensions of the next phase.

      Senior Israeli officials and media reports said Tuesday that troops were given permission to move as far north as Lebanon's Litani River, which meanders through the southern part of the country, and at some points is 18 miles from the Israeli-Lebanese border.

      In a first stage, tanks and ground forces would move up to four miles into Lebanon, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to discuss government decisions with reporters.

      Political commentator Emmanuel Rosen outlined the Security Cabinet's decision on Army Radio, saying troops would in some cases even go beyond the Litani. Justice Minister Haim Ramon, speaking on the same program, said Rosen apparently "knows what he is talking about," but declined to refer directly to the Cabinet decisions.

      Ramon, a member of the Security Cabinet, said he hoped the push would be completed in a week to 10 days, to create the conditions for a multinational force to deploy there. Another Cabinet minister, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, said he expected the offensive to take up to two weeks.

      Peretz said Israel would also target vehicles carrying weapons from Syria to Lebanon, but reiterated that Israel was not trying to draw Syria into the war. Israel has repeatedly accused Syria of allowing Iranian-made weapons to be shipped through its territory to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.

      Syrian President Bashar Assad called on his army Monday to increase readiness to cope with "regional challenges." Travelers from Syria have reported that some reservists have been called up for military duty — a sign that Syria is concerned the fighting in Lebanon could spill over.

      Thousands of Lebanese, meanwhile, took advantage of the lull in airstrikes to make a dash for safety farther north after weeks trapped in homes in the war zone, afraid to move because of intense missile strikes on roads.

      Across the south, cars and trucks packed with women and children, mattresses strapped to the roofs and white flags streaming from the windows, made their way to the coast, then turned north. They passed flattened houses, shattered trees and burned-out cars strewn on the roadside.

      Some described living on a piece of candy a day and dirty water as the fighting raged.

      "All the time I thought of death," said Rimah Bazzi, an American visiting from Dearborn, Mich., who spent weeks hiding with her three children and mother in the house of a local doctor in the town of Bint Jbail, scene of the heaviest fighting.

      In the northern Israeli town of Nahariya, residents began emerging from shelters. Supermarkets were fuller than before and more people were in the streets, walking along the beach and shopping.

      Israel said it would investigate the Qana attack, but army officials said Tuesday they did not know when findings would be released.

      Olmert, meanwhile, apologized for the civilian deaths.

      "I am sorry from the bottom of my heart for all deaths of children or women in Qana," he said. "We did not search them out. ... They were not our enemies and we did not look for them."

      Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said she expected a U.N. resolution for a cease-fire within a week, but also cautioned that "there's a lot of work to do." As part of a truce deal, a U.N.-mandated international force would be deployed in southern Lebanon to ensure guerrillas do not attack Israel.

      Israel wants a strong, armed force with a mandate to confront militants, and Ramon reiterated Tuesday that Israel seeks NATO involvement. Israel feels U.N. peacekeepers, deployed in south Lebanon since 1978, are at best useless.

      Hezbollah's allies Syria and Iran also quietly entered the diplomacy on Monday. Egypt was pressing Syria not to try to stop an international force in the south, diplomats in Cairo said. Iran's foreign minister traveled to Beirut for talks with his French and Lebanese counterparts.

      At least 524 people have been killed in Lebanon since the fighting began, according to the Health Ministry. Fifty-one Israelis have died, including 33 soldiers and 18 civilians who died in rocket attacks.

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      • Re: Israel VS Hizbullah Part VI (Merged Threads)

        Lebanon sues Israel

        Lebanon: We will sue Israel in Hague

        Lebanese minister of justice states that Israel's attacks constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and wonders how pictures of Qana did not bring about ceasefire. Red Cross publishes that 28 corpses evacuated from Qana, contrary to Lebanese reports that 57 people were killed.

        Lebanon is planning to file a lawsuit against Israel in the International Criminal Court. Tuesday, Lebanese Minister of Justice Charles Rizk made a written petition to the Lebanese Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora, asking him to bring up the issue in the next meeting of the Lebanese cabinet, so that the prime minister will be able to collect witnesses in preparation before filing of the complaint. The minister wrote to the prime minister: "The repeated Israeli attacks on Lebanon, on its infrastructure, its citizens, women and children, since July 12 are a grave breech of international law and international agreements. As such, they clearly constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity."
        "In preparation for the pursuit of the Israeli enemy in the relevant international courts, and in a bid to punish these crimes and to bring them to justice, the Lebanese government must prepare a comprehensive case that will include and detail all the attacks and crimes committed. This is with the intent that Israel pay restitution on all the physical and moral damages that she caused Lebanon and her citizens," he wrote

        http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/Art...284627,00.html

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        • Re: Israel VS Hizbullah Part VI (Merged Threads)

          Sure sue Israel, not Hizbullah the one that started this war. The fact
          Lebanon will not admit is that there support of Hizbullah is one of the
          reasons this is happening, not Israel defending itself.

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          • Re: Israel VS Hizbullah Part VI (Merged Threads)

            One has to wonder what would happen in an "international court" if Israel were to present ALL of their evidences of Hizbullah/Lebanese attrocities. I'm not saying Israel is guiltless - but we do know who started the war and who consistently lies through their teeth to "prove" how much they're the innocent victim in all this.

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            • Re: Israel VS Hizbullah Part VI (Merged Threads)

              Red Cross publishes that 28 corpses evacuated from Qana, contrary to Lebanese reports that 57 people were killed.


              And from several of the photos a goodly number of these appear to be adult male Hezbollah -

              What was the original claim - 37 children killed?

              Of course none of the lame-stream media will ever bother to go back and clarify the record to the public as it just does not fit their global agenda.

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              • Re: Israel VS Hizbullah Part VI (Merged Threads)

                For anyone who hasn't read...it is believe Hezbollah also has taken dead bodies and transported them place to place where Israel strikes and uses them for photo ops, even the Qana attack. In the Qana attack there was a banner in that was apparently seen that was put together and hung up, it meant that Hezbollah had plenty of time to stage the final collapse of the building as those banners can not just be whipped out in an hour. I don't have the link to that article anymore. Someone who may have it could post. I showed Condie with blood dripping from her mouth.... sick

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                • Re: Israel VS Hizbullah Part VI (Merged Threads)

                  Nothing Hizbullah does suprises me, a group that will use women and
                  children for cover will do anything. The sad fact is most of the
                  world sees them as a victim.

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                  • Re: Israel VS Hizbullah Part VI (Merged Threads)

                    FoxNews was showing the President of Lebanon, A CHRISTIAN, standing with Hezbollah and not Israel, "showing a disinegration in the support for Israel by Christians"... when Israel starts loosing the backing of the church, it does not look good.

                    1. The President of Lebanon constitutionally has to be a Christian that is allied with the Roman Catholic Church.

                    2. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DOES NOT SPEAK FOR "THE CHURCH"!!!

                    grrrrr I just hate when the news does that!

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                    • Re: Israel VS Hizbullah Part VI (Merged Threads)

                      Originally posted by Biblenuggetlady
                      2. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DOES NOT SPEAK FOR "THE CHURCH"!!!

                      grrrrr I just hate when the news does that!
                      A HEARTY "AMEN" from me!

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                      • Re: Israel VS Hizbullah Part VI (Merged Threads)

                        Released for Publication: 3 IDF Soldiers Dead in Battle
                        22:10 Aug 01, '06 / 7 Av 5766


                        (IsraelNN.com) Cleared for publication: Three IDF paratroopers were killed in heavy fighting at approximately 11:00 am Tuesday morning in southern Lebanon.

                        One officer and two soldiers were killed in the battle for control of the village of Aita al-Shaab, located only one kilometer from Moshav Shetula on the other side of the border with Israel. According to Reshet Bet, 25 IDF troops were lightly wounded in the battle.
                        http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=108942

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                        • Re: Israel VS Hizbullah Part VI (Merged Threads)

                          Originally posted by Biblenuggetlady
                          FoxNews was showing the President of Lebanon, A CHRISTIAN, standing with Hezbollah and not Israel, "showing a disinegration in the support for Israel by Christians"... when Israel starts loosing the backing of the church, it does not look good.

                          1. The President of Lebanon constitutionally has to be a Christian that is allied with the Roman Catholic Church.

                          2. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DOES NOT SPEAK FOR "THE CHURCH"!!!

                          grrrrr I just hate when the news does that!
                          More importantly IMO is the fact that this "president" does not necessarily reflect the feelings of the majority of Christians in Lebanon - who historically have been friends of Israel.

                          At many times Fox News is as bad or worse than CNN in their rather over-simplistic reporting

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                          • Re: Israel VS Hizbullah Part VI (Merged Threads)

                            Originally posted by Biblenuggetlady
                            1. The President of Lebanon constitutionally has to be a Christian that is allied with the Roman Catholic Church.

                            2. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DOES NOT SPEAK FOR "THE CHURCH"!!!

                            grrrrr I just hate when the news does that!

                            Where did you get the CATHOLIC CHURCH from this? I am confused.

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                            • Re: Israel VS Hizbullah Part VI (Merged Threads)

                              Let me be clearer...He is a Maronite Catholic and the President of Lebanon must be A Catholic Christian in FULL Communion with the Pope of Rome:


                              Maronites (Marunoye ܡܪܘܢܝܐܶ; in Syriac, Mâruniyya مارونية in Arabic) are members of an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.

                              Their heritage reaches back to Maron in the early 5th century. The first Maronite patriarch, John Maron, was appointed in the late 7th century. Today, they are one of the principal religious groups in Lebanon.

                              Maronites are Arabic-speaking Christians, though, like most Lebanese people, their ethnic background is a mix of Phoenician, Assyrians, and other Levantine/West Semitic roots, with some Greek and European elements that may have stemmed from the Crusades or earlier. The Arab identity of the Maronites is accepted by some and rejected by others. Many Maronites - such as Amin al-Rihani - played a role in the original Arab nationalist renaissance of the early 20th Century.

                              In the early 5th century, a community gathered around the Christian hermit Maron. After his death in 435 (or 410, according to some sources), this community continued to grow and adopted the name of Maronites.

                              It was in Antioch that the followers of Jesus Christ converted by Paul and Barnabas were first called Christians [Acts 11:26]. Antioch, especially after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70, became a center for Christianity. According to Roman Catholic tradition, the first Bishop was Saint Peter before his travels to Rome. The third Bishop was the Apostolic Father Ignatius of Antioch. Antioch became one of the five original Patriarchates after Constantine recognized Christianity.

                              Maron, a contemporary and friend of St. John Chrysostom, was a monk in the fourth century who left Antioch for the Orontes River to lead an ascetic life, following the traditions of Anthony the Great of the Desert and Pachomius. He soon had many followers that adopted his monastic life. Following the death of Maron in 410, his disciples built a monastery in his memory and formed the nucleus of the Maronite Church.

                              The Maronites held fast to the beliefs of the Council of Chalcedon in 451. When 350 monks were slain by the Monophysites of Antioch, the Maronites sought refuge in the mountains of Lebanon. Correspondence concerning the event brought papal recognition of the Maronites by Pope Hormisdas on February 10, 518.

                              The martyrdom of the Patriarch of Antioch in 602 left the Maronites without a leader, and led them to elect their first Maronite Patriarch, John Maron, in 685. The Maronites constantly struggled to retain their independence from the Byzantine and the Muslim empires. After the Muslim conquest of Syria, the Maronites gained some military help from Constantine IV and harassed the forces of Umayyad Dynasty so that in 677 the caliph decided to pay tribute to them in return for peace. Some of the Maronites relocated to Mount Lebanon at this time and formed several communities that became known as the Marada. In 685 the Maronites found themselves isolated from the Byzantine Empire and decided to appoint their own Patriarch, John Maron, who had been a bishop of Batroun, Mount Lebanon. Through him, they claim full apostolic succession through the See of Antioch.

                              A source of controversy surrounds the Maronites, as they have been accused of having fully adopted and embraced the Monothelite heresy. However, this charge has been adequately explained away, as noted in the 2003 new Catholic Encyclopedia (see reference below). Maronites themselves insist that they have "never been out of communion with the Roman Catholic Church."

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                              • Re: Israel VS Hizbullah Part VI (Merged Threads)

                                Lebanon CIA Fact book:

                                Muslim 59.7% including (Shi'a, Sunni, Druze, Isma'ilite, Alawite or Nusayri),

                                Christian 39% including (Maronite Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Melkite Catholic, Armenian Orthodox, Syrian Catholic, Armenian Catholic, Syrian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Chaldean, Assyrian, Copt, Protestant),

                                other 1.3%

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