Isreal vs Palestine

[Bitburger]

It's all going to end in tears................





Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, appears to have decided that a large-scale incursion across the border is the only way to push Hizbollah back.

Despite nine days of the heaviest bombardment of Lebanon in 24 years, the militant group's ability to hit Israeli towns with rockets has not been diminished.

Senior Israeli officials met last night to decide how big a force to send in, according to military sources.

Any invasion would likely be aimed at setting-up a buffer zone deep inside Lebanon - possibly as far as the Litani River, 20 miles north of the border - so Israeli towns would be out of range of Hizbollah artillery.

Israel maintained a similar buffer zone for 18 years from 1982, but withdrew in 2000.

A senior Israeli commander has said that thousands of reservists would soon be called up to support an escalation of the ground war.

"It's possible that in the coming days our ground operations will increase," Brigadier-General Alon Friedman told the Maariv newspaper.

 

[SirSaltyHelmet]

Could we all be subject to another Operation Deny Xmas?

Send in the French Foreign Legion I say!

DT_Xtremez_25:

 

[Bluntend]

Any invasion would likely be aimed at setting-up a buffer zone deep inside Lebanon - possibly as far as the Litani River, 20 miles north of the border - so Israeli towns would be out of range of Hizbollah artillery.

Israel maintained a similar buffer zone for 18 years from 1982, but withdrew in 2000 .

So, if they successfully create a buffer zone to the North, would they consider one to the East and South? However, I've just edited my last to add this quote from AOL News:

Israel's goal is not to create a buffer zone as it did during its occupation of southern Lebanon from 1982 to 2000, said a senior military official.

Rather, Israel wants to weaken Hezbollah to make it easier for the Lebanese army to move into areas previously controlled by the guerrillas, possibly with the aid of a beefed up international peacekeeping force, the official said.

I'm sure what is left of the Lebanese Army will thank them when its all over...DT_Xtremez_21: