The right wingers are in power in Israel. They screwed up just like Bush.
"Scott in Florida" <askifyouwant@mindspring.net> wrote in message
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> This is what happens when you let leftists run your government.
>
> Thanks libs....you made the war on terrorists a lot harder.
>
> Never let a liberal control anything....
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> JERUSALEM - In the coming days, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his
> government ministers will attempt to persuade Israeli voters and the
> international community that Israel achieved its political and
> military objectives during its campaign in Lebanon.
>
> Olmert will likely claim Hezbollah's capabilities have been minimized;
> a strong, armed force will soon be deployed in south Lebanon capable
> of contending with Hezbollah; and that the political momentum for a
> new Middle East settlement is now on Israel's side.
>
> In actuality, these claims couldn't be further from the truth. Israel
> lost the war in Lebanon on all fronts. This is so largely because
> Olmert refused to allow the Israeli Defense Forces to do its job.
>
> Days after Hezbollah provoked Israel last month by firing rockets into
> Jewish towns and by ambushing an Israeli military patrol unit killing
> 8 soldiers and kidnapping two others, the IDF presented Olmert with
> several battle plans it says could have devastated Hezbollah within an
> estimated three weeks.
>
> The plans, drawn up and improved upon over the course of several
> years, called for an immediate air campaign against Hezbollah
> strongholds in south Beirut; aerial bombardment of key sections of the
> Lebanese-Syria border to ensure the kidnapped soldiers were not
> transported out of the country and to halt Syrian re-supply of arms to
> Hezbollah; and the deployment of up to 40,000 ground troops to advance
> immediately to the Latani River - taking up the swath of territory
> from which most Hezbollah rockets are fired - and from there work
> their way back to the Israeli border while surrounding and then
> cleaning out Hezbollah strongholds under heavy aerial cover.
>
> To the dismay of military officials here, Olmert did not approve the
> plan. He initially allowed only a limited air campaign that focused on
> some high-profile Hezbollah targets, the Beirut airport and roads that
> led from Beirut into Syria. But the main smuggling routes between
> Syria and Lebanon, sites very well known to Israeli intelligence, were
> essentially off limits to the Israeli Air Force because Olmert didn't
> want his army operating too close to Syria for fear it would bring
> Damascus into the conflict.
>
> IDF suffers from lack of troops in Lebanon, insufficient air coverage
>
> When Hezbollah met Israel's air campaign with massive rocket attacks
> against northern Israeli communities, the IDF again presented Olmert
> with a plan for a large ground deployment to the Latani River. The
> Israeli Prime Minister - under heavy pressure to step up operations in
> response to Hezbollah rocket fire - approved only a smaller ground
> offensive of up to 8,000 soldiers who were not allowed to advance to
> the Latani.
>
> The IDF was directed to clean out Hezbollah's bases within about three
> miles of the Israeli border. Small forces, though, did advance further
> while isolated special operations were carried out deep inside
> Lebanon.
>
> Afraid of being accused of using excessive force and firing
> indiscriminately into population centers - charges leveled at the
> Jewish state anyway - Olmert limited the IAF to strategic bombings
> only. The air force was not allowed to clear the way for ground troops
> to enter.
>
> And so the IDF - with a force one fourth the size it asked for -
> engaged in heated, often face-to-face combat over the course of weeks
> with a well-trained, well-armed Hezbollah militia that had planned
> with Iran for up to six years for this battle.
>
> Israeli soldiers found themselves up against Hezbollah gunmen who
> fought in civilian clothing and hid behind local civilian populations.
> Well-orchestrated Hezbollah ambushes took tolls on troop battalions.
> Iranian-supplied advanced anti-tank missiles proved extremely
> effective against Israeli combat vehicles.
>
> The IDF suffered in very specific ways on the battlefield because of a
> lack of enough ground troops.
>
> One example was a battle that began July 25. The Israeli army
> attempted to strangle Bint Jbail, a town of about 30,000 commonly
> called the "Hezbollah capital" of south Lebanon. Because there were
> not enough troops to completely surround the strategic village, Bint
> Jbail's northern entrance was not sealed off, and, according to army
> sources, hundreds of Hezbollah fighters were able to infiltrate and
> join with the already 150 or so gunmen inside. The IDF had to contend
> with a larger Hezbollah contingent as a result. Nine soldiers were
> lost in heavy fighting the next day. Another 14 soldiers were killed
> at Bint Jbail the next two weeks.
>
> On several occasions the past few weeks, while heavy diplomacy looked
> to be gaining momentum, such as during Secretary of State Condoleeza
> Rice's visits here, the IDF was actually asked by the political
> echelon to halt most operations and troop advances for up to 36 hours
> while negotiations ran their course.
>
> Military leaders now charge that some troop battalions, instructed to
> hold positions outside villages but not to advance, actually became
> sitting ducks for Hezbollah anti-tank fire, which killed at least 35
> Israeli soldiers. After the diplomacy failed, soldiers were ordered to
> carry on. This piece of information will likely be brought to light by
> commissions of inquiry already initiated into the performance of the
> IDF and the culpability of Israel's political leadership.
>
> Hezbollah showed other impressive gains. In what Israel admitted was a
> major blow to its navy, Hezbollah during the initial fighting hit an
> Israeli naval ship with an Iranian Silkworm C-802 radar-guided
> anti-ship cruise missile, killing four soldiers and damaging the
> warship. It was the first time the missile had been introduced into
> the battle with Israel. Military officials here said the Israeli
> ship's radar system was not calibrated to detect the Silkworm, which
> is equipped with an advanced anti-tracking system.
>
> Olmert turns down 'necessary' military ops
>
> WorldNetDaily was made aware by senior military officials of several
> meetings in which IDF officials petitioned Olmert and Defense Minister
> Amir Peretz for a larger ground force and for more heavy aerial cover,
> or at least for ground troops already in Lebanon to be authorized to
> reach the Latani River in hopes of cleaning out the villages nearby
> such as Tyre, from which many rockets are launched into Israel.
>
> The petitions came more frequently as Hezbollah rockets landed further
> and further south inside Israel.
>
> Tens of thousands of troops were put on standby in northern Israel,
> but were not allowed to enter Lebanon.
>
> The smaller IDF numbers on the ground in Lebanon carried on,
> eventually with instructions to create a buffer zone of about 3 miles
> within which the Hezbollah infrastructure would be entirely wiped out.
> The zone would do little to stop rocket fire into northern Israel,
> since most rockets were fired from positions deeper inside south
> Lebanon.
>
> Officials say the IAF was still restrained from targeting key
> positions close to the Syrian border in the Bekaa Valley from which
> intelligence officials say Hezbollah received regular shipments of
> rockets and other heavy weaponry originating in Iran and transported
> via Syria. Israel bombed roads in the area a few kilometers from
> Syria, but many weapons smuggling routes at the border remained
> intact.
>
> While Syria placed its military on high alert, Olmert told reporters
> several times Israel had no intention of bringing Damascus into the
> war.
>
> Last weekend, after Hezbollah rockets killed a record 15 civilians in
> one day, Olmert's cabinet finally gave the green light for an enormous
> IDF ground invasion and for an advance to the Latani River.
>
> Many military officials here told me they were elated the IDF would at
> last be given the freedom to do what it had wanted to do nearly one
> month ago.
>
> The cabinet, though, left the timing of the new operation to Olmert,
> who held the advance back until Thursday morning. By Thursday evening,
> the IDF, which charged ahead from four main fronts, reached the Latani
> River and even beyond in full force and prepared for an intense battle
> to overtake the areas used by Hezbollah to fire rockets. The IDF
> estimated it would need another four to six weeks to successfully wipe
> out the Hezbollah infrastructure in the areas.
>
> But a day later a cease-fire resolution was adapted. The U.S., perhaps
> wanting to cut its losses after Israel's month-long poor performance,
> supported a cessation of military activities in Lebanon.
>
> Hezbollah remains intact, Israel's enemies emboldened
>
> The IDF continued its advance until this morning, beginning to clear
> out some villages. But not nearly enough gains were made, as was amply
> demonstrated yesterday when Hezbollah fired over 240 rockets - its
> largest one-day volley yet - into northern Israel, killing one
> civilian and wounding at least 26 others.
>
> Now the cease-fire is being implemented. Perhaps it will hold, perhaps
> it won't. Either way, Hezbollah has won the war. It put up an
> incredible fight against IDF forces paralyzed by Israel's leadership.
> The terror group maintains a good deal of its infrastructure in south
> Lebanon and still has the ability to fire hundreds of rockets per day
> into Israel.
>
> Even if Israel restarts its larger offensive, Hezbollah still can
> regain the initiative by carrying out larger escalations, such as
> firing its long-range Zelzal rockets into Tel Aviv.
>
> Hezbollah is ecstatic about the deployment of "15,000 soldiers" from
> the Lebanese Army to replace Israeli troops in south Lebanon. The
> Lebanese Army doesn't have 15,000 standing troops. Aside from a small
> air force pool, the Army doesn't have a reserve unit from which it can
> call up large numbers.
>
> The plan, according to Lebanese officials, is to recall Lebanese
> soldiers who served during the past 5 years, which means many
> out-of-shape, unprepared ex-soldiers will be charged with protecting
> the Israeli border. Take into account the sectarian divisions of the
> split Shiite-Sunni Lebanese Army - with many soldiers sympathetic to
> Hezbollah's cause - and you have a force that will, at best, do little
> to contend with Hezbollah, and at worst prompt an internal civil war.
> Not to mention, the Lebanese Army is poorly armed and ill-equipped.
>
> The cease-fire call for the establishment of a backed-up United
> Nations force in south Lebanon is also taken as a victory for
> Hezbollah. The terror group does not believe any international force
> will be willing to die to defend Israel's borders or that it will have
> the ability to block the group's re-supply routes between Syria and
> Lebanon. Hezbollah knows that if the IDF couldn't defeat it, European
> forces, led by countries opposed to Israel's Lebanon campaign, will be
> no match.
>
> For Israel, an international force on its borders will impede the
> ability of the IDF to operate with freedom during any future conflict
> with Hezbollah.
>
> The Jewish state's credibility took a massive toll when Olmert agreed
> to the current cease-fire calling for negotiations at a later date for
> the two soldiers Hezbollah kidnapped. Olmert had repeatedly vowed the
> war would only stop after Hezbollah returned the abducted Israeli
> troops, and now the prime minister is ending the war without even
> vague promises of the soldiers' assured safety or indications they are
> alive. Hezbollah sees this as a victory.
>
> The cease-fire places the Shebba Farms, territory held by Israel but
> claimed by Hezbollah, up for future negotiations, granting Hezbollah
> the ability to claim its fighting brought international legitimacy to
> its territorial demands.
>
> The cease-fire doesn't place an immediate arms embargo on Hezbollah,
> but only calls for future talks on stopping weapons transfers to the
> terror group. This leaves Syria and Iran free to rearm and regroup
> Hezbollah.
>
> The two state sponsors of Hezbollah, Syria and Iran learned during the
> last month that they can orchestrate a proxy war against America's
> Middle East ally at no cost to their regimes. They engineered a tough
> fight against Israeli forces and came out on top. They will be
> emboldened to continue their war against Israel and U.S. troops in
> Iraq at a fevered pitch. Iran smells Western weakness and will forge
> ahead with its nuclear ambitions.
>
> And terrorists in the West Bank and Gaza are foaming at the mouth.
> Today, Abu Aziz, second-in-command of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
> terror group, told WorldNetDaily that Hezbollah's victory leads him to
> believe the end of Israel is in sight. He said he realizes now is the
> time to "attack Israel from all directions."
>
> And so the enemies of the U.S. and Israel are poised for another war.
> They smell victory, and why shouldn't they? The last month
> demonstrated that with weak Israeli leadership in place, the Jewish
> state can be defeated.
>
>
> [url]http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51519[/url]
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> Scott in Florida
>
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