The Independent - Israel's verdict: We lost the war = $billions?
The inhumane war of aggression and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon by Israel with the US and some criminal allies, not only has destroyed most of the infrastructure: "it is estimated to have cost well over 1,000 Lebanese lives as well as those of 156 Israelis - civilians and soldiers."
And the US/Israeli war machine grinds on, with the next 'slaughterhauses' in the cross hairs: possibly Syria, Iran and Venezuela. Human beings do not count: only power and profit. Why should we let them? Certainly serial killers must be stopped?
Henk Ruyssenaars
FPF-intro - August 15th - 2006 - Below an article from the unreliable 'The Independent' - 'Chomsky' Fisk's 'fishy' UK paper* - in which as always ten percent so called 'criticism' is offered, as a cover for the usual 90% pro war propaganda that follows.
The whole 'war theater' looks like just another part of the 'UN resolutions raping repertoire' of the US/Israeli war machine: now building the 'false flag' idea that the by Israel faked 'incidents' with Hezbollah - or whatever they lie is shooting at them - make further occupation of south Lebanon including the Litani river area ''necessary to defend ourselves.'' To honest observers it will be just another try to criminally 'justify' the latest war of aggression perpetrated by the US/Israeli killers and bombers. And again Israel is playing the role of the victim, which returns $billions... - Url.:http://tinyurl.com/rrkyo
''Israel Compensated By Iraq for Gulf War Damage - The United Nations Compensation Commission awarded $74 million to Israel for the [very low - the rest was faked - HR] costs it incurred from Iraqi Scud missile attacks during the Gulf War. The Commission rejected most of the $1 billion that Israel had requested. The first $5 million, transferred by the United Nations from Arab oil purchases from Iraq, was sent on August 16, 2001.'' - Source: JTA, (6/21/01); Jerusalem Post, (August 16, 2001). - Url.: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/iraqcomp.html
The creatures* which for three years planned this attack on Lebanon and are responsible for the global massacres - and that includes all their propagandists, the 'media brainwashers' without whom this never would have been possible - those creatures are not human and must be 'neutralized' as soon as laws are valid again. Everywhere. Any other country on earth would have been ransacked and 'bombed back to the Stone Age' as the US always does, but Israel does never care about UN resolutions which are not in favor of it.
Emperor George Bush II said something yesterday concerning Lebanon, with which all who know about the US/Israeli war machine will agree: “I think if people take a look at the type of mentality that celebrates the loss of innocent life, they’ll reject that type of mentality.” - Not only reject: the rest of the world abhors what he and his PNAC ilk is doing to humanity. - [http://www.jta.org/]
The US/Israeli war machine as always totally ignores all other 195 countries and their peoples in the UN: the whole world is s.....d again and again by them. This group of banking and 'war lords' which has been doing this for ages, is more or less zero-point-six percent (0.6%) of the world's population, but represents the biggest plague ever to hit mankind. And their mnagers in Israel do never care about this: A list of UN Resolutions against "Israel" - Url.: www.uscrusade.com/forum/config.pl/noframes/read/1372
THE RESISTANCE WILL HANG THEM TOO
What they do is serial killing on a global scale, which can never be accepted by any human being with any decency. The PNAC and cooperating 'crazies' in Washington are only the mortal top of the wave in a their terror tsunami, threatening to drown the world in blood. The immense shame and guilt also befalls the cowardly collaborating 'Coalition of the Killing' and other brain dead mercenaries - of whatever nationality - doing the dirty work for the warmongers in many countries. Don't they understand why the resistance will hang them too? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/q83ny
One really wonders how those criminal characters think they ever can survive the growing hatred of the global population, the human beings they - for their own greed and goals - have maltreated and killed on this earth for such a long time. We others are 6.5 billion and we are everywhere. Since this group does not respect conventions, 'laws of war' or other human beings, they can not expect respect for eventually by them claimed 'human rights' in return, and can not expect anything else but this: Url. tinyurl.com/jb56k
May I repeat it again - as an ex-BBC correspondent too - that ALL media in the UK are controlled by the Ministry of Defense in London and it's tentacles? ALL! - With the BBC being worst of all, globally.* The infamous 'D-Notice' - by which the UK media are censored and controlled you'll find here: Url. http://tinyurl.com/kru9d
THAT'S WHY YOU MUST ALWAYS CHECK THE WELL FROM WHICH YOU ARE DRINKING...
The tone (Ç'est le ton, qui fait la musique.) in brainwashing propaganda articles articles - like this one by Donald Macintyre in Israel - is also set by the adjectives used: Hezbollah's Sheikh Nasrallah 'crowes'... but, Ehud Olmert, the Israeli PM: 'insists'...
ISRAEL'S VERDICT: WE LOST THE WAR
By Donald Macintyre in Metulla, Israel
15 August 2006 - Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, was obliged to admit "shortcomings" in the 34-day-old conflict in Lebanon yesterday as he launched what may prove a protracted fight for his own political survival.
Mr Olmert's admission in a stormy Knesset session came in the face of devastating poll figures showing a majority of the Israeli public believes none or only a very small part of the goals of the war had been achieved.
Adding insult to injury, the leader of Hizbollah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, CROWED on television that his guerrillas had achieved a "strategic historic victory" over Israel.
UN RESOLUTION WOULD "CHANGE FUNDAMENTALLY''?
The Prime Minister, who was repeatedly heckled by opposition MPs during his address, INSISTED the international commitments in Friday night's UN resolution would "change fundamentally" the balance of forces on the country's northern border.
But, facing his first major political crisis since winning the election five months ago, he acknowledged "the overall responsibility for this operation lies with me, the Prime Minister. I am not asking to share this with anyone." A number of Knesset members including the Israeli Arab Ahmed Tibi, a furious opponent of the war, were ejected from the chamber.
The opening of what is likely to prove a bitter post-mortem came as the two sides began an uneasy truce.
The conflict is estimated to have cost well over 1,000 Lebanese lives as well as those of 156 Israelis - civilians and soldiers.
The fragility of the ceasefire was underlined by four incidents in which Israeli troops shot dead six Hizbollah fighters after the ceasefire began at 8am yesterday. The Israeli military insisted the incidents were within guidelines permitting troops to open fire when threatened and did not jeopardise the truce.
Promising that the government "will have to examine ourselves at all levels," Mr Olmert fought to pre-empt a probable campaign by the political right by declaring that Hizbollah had been dealt a "harsh blow". He added that the guerrilla group was no longer "a state within a state" or a "terrorist organisation that is allowed to act inside a state as an arm of the axis of evil", referring to Syria and Iran.
While refraining from a direct personal attack on Mr Olmert, Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right- wing Likud opposition, lost little time in declaring "there were many failures, failures in identifying the threat, failures in preparing to meet the threat, failures in the management of the war, failures in the management of the home front."
Critics from right and left were fortified by a Globes Smith poll showing, remarkably given the degree to which the army is embedded in Israeli society, that 52 per cent of electors believed the Israel Defence Forces had been unsuccessful in its Lebanon offensive as opposed to 44 per cent who believed it did well.
Mr Netanyahu also pointedly chose to attack unilateral withdrawals - the issue on which Mr Olmert fought his election in March. Mr Netanyahu said: "We left Lebanon to the last centimetre and they are firing. We left Gaza to the last centimetre and they are firing."
INCAPABLE OF PROTECTING LEBANON
Meanwhile, the Hizbollah leader said he believes the Lebanese army and international troops are "incapable of protecting Lebanon". He also said it was the "wrong time" for a public discussion on disarming the guerrilla group.
At the eastern end of the northern border, heavy artillery barrages and repeated tank machine-gun fire continued yesterday up to the ceasefire deadline.
But as the artillery batteries fell silent and firing stopped, there was a final single explosion at about 8.05pm, sending a plume of grey smoke upwards before the uneasy calm began.
Amid a wave of angry civilian reactions in Israel after more than a month in which an estimated 3,500 rockets were fired into northern Israel, Sam Echahid, the manager of a local supermarket, was asked whether he thought the ceasefire would hold. He said: "I hope not. We haven't done anything yet."
Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, was obliged to admit "shortcomings" in the 34-day-old conflict in Lebanon yesterday as he launched what may prove a protracted fight for his own political survival.
Mr Olmert's admission in a stormy Knesset session came in the face of devastating poll figures showing a majority of the Israeli public believes none or only a very small part of the goals of the war had been achieved.
Adding insult to injury, the leader of Hizbollah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, crowed on television that his guerrillas had achieved a "strategic historic victory" over Israel. (The whole Israeli PR, the Potemkin façade has gone. - HR)
The Prime Minister, who was repeatedly heckled by opposition MPs during his address, insisted the international commitments in Friday night's UN resolution would "change fundamentally" the balance of forces on the country's northern border.
OPPONENTS OF THE WAR EJECTED FROM THE CHAMBER
But, facing his first major political crisis since winning the election five months ago, he acknowledged "the overall responsibility for this operation lies with me, the Prime Minister. I am not asking to share this with anyone." A number of Knesset members including the Israeli Arab Ahmed Tibi, a furious opponent of the war, were ejected from the chamber.
The opening of what is likely to prove a bitter post-mortem came as the two sides began an uneasy truce. The conflict is estimated to have cost well over 1,000 Lebanese lives as well as those of 156 Israelis - civilians and soldiers.
The fragility of the ceasefire was underlined by four incidents in which Israeli troops shot dead six Hizbollah fighters after the ceasefire began at 8am yesterday. The Israeli military insisted the incidents were within guidelines permitting troops to open fire when threatened and did not jeopardise the truce.
Promising that the government "will have to examine ourselves at all levels," Mr Olmert fought to pre-empt a probable campaign by the political right by declaring that Hizbollah had been dealt a "harsh blow". He added that the guerrilla group was no longer "a state within a state" or a "terrorist organisation that is allowed to act inside a state as an arm of the axis of evil", referring to Syria and Iran.
While refraining from a direct personal attack on Mr Olmert, Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right- wing Likud opposition, lost little time in declaring "there were many failures, failures in identifying the threat, failures in preparing to meet the threat, failures in the management of the war, failures in the management of the home front."
ARMY IS EMBEDDED IN ISRAELI SOCIETY - [FPF-Url.: http://tinyurl.com/q3fnw]
Critics from right and left were fortified by a Globes Smith poll showing, remarkably given the degree to which the army is embedded in Israeli society, that 52 per cent of electors believed the Israel Defence Forces had been unsuccessful in its Lebanon offensive as opposed to 44 per cent who believed it did well.
Mr Netanyahu also pointedly chose to attack unilateral withdrawals - the issue on which Mr Olmert fought his election in March. Mr Netanyahu said: "We left Lebanon to the last centimetre and they are firing. We left Gaza to the last centimetre and they are firing."
Meanwhile, the Hizbollah leader said he believes the Lebanese army and international troops are "incapable of protecting Lebanon". He also said it was the "wrong time" for a public discussion on disarming the guerrilla group.
At the eastern end of the northern border, heavy artillery barrages and repeated tank machine-gun fire continued yesterday up to the ceasefire deadline.
But as the artillery batteries fell silent and firing stopped, there was a final single explosion at about 8.05pm, sending a plume of grey smoke upwards before the uneasy calm began.
Amid a wave of angry civilian reactions in Israel after more than a month in which an estimated 3,500 rockets (Israeli figures - HR) were fired into northern Israel, Sam Echahid, the manager of a local supermarket, was asked whether he thought the ceasefire would hold.
He said: "I hope not. We haven't done anything yet."
[enditem]
The last 'remark' of course being a warning: Israel already has used it's global US based propaganda machine to - after a few hours yesterday - start announcing ''breaches of the cease fire by the Hezbollah.'' Breaches and bombs they fake themselves to keep the illegal conflict going. Israel has never given - nor now gives a damn - about what the rest of the world thinks or any by them formed UN resolutions. Which anybody can see happened and happens.
The unreliable Independent's Url.: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1219280.ece
DEFINITION: Any source of 'information' - like Fisk's Independent and Fisk himself - using the official 9/11 version by Washington - against the Law of Nature - is absolutely unreliable. - * SCHOLARS FOR 9/11 TRUTH - American and other scientists, diplomats, researchers etc.: What happened on 9/11? - What is happening to our world? - How can we improve our situation? - Url.: http://www.st911.org/
* The BBC is the worst warmonger on earth - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8d3lo
* 'Fishy' papers and the 'Chomskys' helping to wreck our world: Url. http://tinyurl.com/mm6yg
* DEFENDING ISRAELI GENOCIDES: ''During time of war, enemy has no innocents'' - the Israeli 'Yesha Rabbinical Council' announced in response to an IDF war crime in Kfar Qanna that killed 54 Lebanese civilians, including 37 children. - [http://tinyurl.com/rsw33] - "According to Jewish law, during a time of battle and war, there is no such term as 'innocents' of the enemy. - All of the discussions on Christian morality are weakening the spirit of the army and the nation and are costing us in the blood of our soldiers and civilians." the statement said. (Efrat Weiss) - Url.: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3283720,00.html
* ISRAELI WRITER URI AVNERY - JUNKIES OF WAR - Israel is conquering South Lebanon as flies conquer fly-paper - Indymedia Beirut/Lebanon - Url.: http://beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2006/08/5184.shtml
* NEWS FROM INDYMEDIA in LEBANON - BEIRUT - Url.: http://beirut.indymedia.org/en/
* DEFINITION OF SEMITES: from The Collin’s English Dictionary -1984 - "Semitic: a member of the group of Caucasoid people who speak a Semitic language, including the Jews and Arabs as well as the Ancient Babylonians (Iraqis), the Assyrians (Syria), and the Phoenicians (the Lebanese of today). Semitic: a branch or sub-family of languages that includes Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew.” - Palestinians and Lebanese are semites.
* PREPARING THE GENOCIDE FOR 'ERETZ ISRAEL' - 'A Clean Break: Strategy for Securing the Realm' - The new Israeli ''Pentagon Papers'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/zksqh
* US/ISRAELI GENOCIDE NEWS: ''MORE TIME TO BOMB'' - ESSENTIAL 6 MINUTE VIDEO - We defy anyone to watch this 6 minute video, entitled MORE TIME TO BOMB, and not be enraged at the scale of Israel's atrocities in Lebanon and Gaza which 'they' are holocausting. - 6 minute video - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/k8mm5
* The Dutch author this far has worked abroad for more than 4 decades for international media as an independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Having practical experience of coups and the obscenity of war: seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism!
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And the US/Israeli war machine grinds on, with the next 'slaughterhauses' in the cross hairs: possibly Syria, Iran and Venezuela. Human beings do not count: only power and profit. Why should we let them? Certainly serial killers must be stopped?
Henk Ruyssenaars
FPF-intro - August 15th - 2006 - Below an article from the unreliable 'The Independent' - 'Chomsky' Fisk's 'fishy' UK paper* - in which as always ten percent so called 'criticism' is offered, as a cover for the usual 90% pro war propaganda that follows.
The whole 'war theater' looks like just another part of the 'UN resolutions raping repertoire' of the US/Israeli war machine: now building the 'false flag' idea that the by Israel faked 'incidents' with Hezbollah - or whatever they lie is shooting at them - make further occupation of south Lebanon including the Litani river area ''necessary to defend ourselves.'' To honest observers it will be just another try to criminally 'justify' the latest war of aggression perpetrated by the US/Israeli killers and bombers. And again Israel is playing the role of the victim, which returns $billions... - Url.:http://tinyurl.com/rrkyo
''Israel Compensated By Iraq for Gulf War Damage - The United Nations Compensation Commission awarded $74 million to Israel for the [very low - the rest was faked - HR] costs it incurred from Iraqi Scud missile attacks during the Gulf War. The Commission rejected most of the $1 billion that Israel had requested. The first $5 million, transferred by the United Nations from Arab oil purchases from Iraq, was sent on August 16, 2001.'' - Source: JTA, (6/21/01); Jerusalem Post, (August 16, 2001). - Url.: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/iraqcomp.html
The creatures* which for three years planned this attack on Lebanon and are responsible for the global massacres - and that includes all their propagandists, the 'media brainwashers' without whom this never would have been possible - those creatures are not human and must be 'neutralized' as soon as laws are valid again. Everywhere. Any other country on earth would have been ransacked and 'bombed back to the Stone Age' as the US always does, but Israel does never care about UN resolutions which are not in favor of it.
Emperor George Bush II said something yesterday concerning Lebanon, with which all who know about the US/Israeli war machine will agree: “I think if people take a look at the type of mentality that celebrates the loss of innocent life, they’ll reject that type of mentality.” - Not only reject: the rest of the world abhors what he and his PNAC ilk is doing to humanity. - [http://www.jta.org/]
The US/Israeli war machine as always totally ignores all other 195 countries and their peoples in the UN: the whole world is s.....d again and again by them. This group of banking and 'war lords' which has been doing this for ages, is more or less zero-point-six percent (0.6%) of the world's population, but represents the biggest plague ever to hit mankind. And their mnagers in Israel do never care about this: A list of UN Resolutions against "Israel" - Url.: www.uscrusade.com/forum/config.pl/noframes/read/1372
THE RESISTANCE WILL HANG THEM TOO
What they do is serial killing on a global scale, which can never be accepted by any human being with any decency. The PNAC and cooperating 'crazies' in Washington are only the mortal top of the wave in a their terror tsunami, threatening to drown the world in blood. The immense shame and guilt also befalls the cowardly collaborating 'Coalition of the Killing' and other brain dead mercenaries - of whatever nationality - doing the dirty work for the warmongers in many countries. Don't they understand why the resistance will hang them too? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/q83ny
One really wonders how those criminal characters think they ever can survive the growing hatred of the global population, the human beings they - for their own greed and goals - have maltreated and killed on this earth for such a long time. We others are 6.5 billion and we are everywhere. Since this group does not respect conventions, 'laws of war' or other human beings, they can not expect respect for eventually by them claimed 'human rights' in return, and can not expect anything else but this: Url. tinyurl.com/jb56k
May I repeat it again - as an ex-BBC correspondent too - that ALL media in the UK are controlled by the Ministry of Defense in London and it's tentacles? ALL! - With the BBC being worst of all, globally.* The infamous 'D-Notice' - by which the UK media are censored and controlled you'll find here: Url. http://tinyurl.com/kru9d
THAT'S WHY YOU MUST ALWAYS CHECK THE WELL FROM WHICH YOU ARE DRINKING...
The tone (Ç'est le ton, qui fait la musique.) in brainwashing propaganda articles articles - like this one by Donald Macintyre in Israel - is also set by the adjectives used: Hezbollah's Sheikh Nasrallah 'crowes'... but, Ehud Olmert, the Israeli PM: 'insists'...
ISRAEL'S VERDICT: WE LOST THE WAR
By Donald Macintyre in Metulla, Israel
15 August 2006 - Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, was obliged to admit "shortcomings" in the 34-day-old conflict in Lebanon yesterday as he launched what may prove a protracted fight for his own political survival.
Mr Olmert's admission in a stormy Knesset session came in the face of devastating poll figures showing a majority of the Israeli public believes none or only a very small part of the goals of the war had been achieved.
Adding insult to injury, the leader of Hizbollah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, CROWED on television that his guerrillas had achieved a "strategic historic victory" over Israel.
UN RESOLUTION WOULD "CHANGE FUNDAMENTALLY''?
The Prime Minister, who was repeatedly heckled by opposition MPs during his address, INSISTED the international commitments in Friday night's UN resolution would "change fundamentally" the balance of forces on the country's northern border.
But, facing his first major political crisis since winning the election five months ago, he acknowledged "the overall responsibility for this operation lies with me, the Prime Minister. I am not asking to share this with anyone." A number of Knesset members including the Israeli Arab Ahmed Tibi, a furious opponent of the war, were ejected from the chamber.
The opening of what is likely to prove a bitter post-mortem came as the two sides began an uneasy truce.
The conflict is estimated to have cost well over 1,000 Lebanese lives as well as those of 156 Israelis - civilians and soldiers.
The fragility of the ceasefire was underlined by four incidents in which Israeli troops shot dead six Hizbollah fighters after the ceasefire began at 8am yesterday. The Israeli military insisted the incidents were within guidelines permitting troops to open fire when threatened and did not jeopardise the truce.
Promising that the government "will have to examine ourselves at all levels," Mr Olmert fought to pre-empt a probable campaign by the political right by declaring that Hizbollah had been dealt a "harsh blow". He added that the guerrilla group was no longer "a state within a state" or a "terrorist organisation that is allowed to act inside a state as an arm of the axis of evil", referring to Syria and Iran.
While refraining from a direct personal attack on Mr Olmert, Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right- wing Likud opposition, lost little time in declaring "there were many failures, failures in identifying the threat, failures in preparing to meet the threat, failures in the management of the war, failures in the management of the home front."
Critics from right and left were fortified by a Globes Smith poll showing, remarkably given the degree to which the army is embedded in Israeli society, that 52 per cent of electors believed the Israel Defence Forces had been unsuccessful in its Lebanon offensive as opposed to 44 per cent who believed it did well.
Mr Netanyahu also pointedly chose to attack unilateral withdrawals - the issue on which Mr Olmert fought his election in March. Mr Netanyahu said: "We left Lebanon to the last centimetre and they are firing. We left Gaza to the last centimetre and they are firing."
INCAPABLE OF PROTECTING LEBANON
Meanwhile, the Hizbollah leader said he believes the Lebanese army and international troops are "incapable of protecting Lebanon". He also said it was the "wrong time" for a public discussion on disarming the guerrilla group.
At the eastern end of the northern border, heavy artillery barrages and repeated tank machine-gun fire continued yesterday up to the ceasefire deadline.
But as the artillery batteries fell silent and firing stopped, there was a final single explosion at about 8.05pm, sending a plume of grey smoke upwards before the uneasy calm began.
Amid a wave of angry civilian reactions in Israel after more than a month in which an estimated 3,500 rockets were fired into northern Israel, Sam Echahid, the manager of a local supermarket, was asked whether he thought the ceasefire would hold. He said: "I hope not. We haven't done anything yet."
Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, was obliged to admit "shortcomings" in the 34-day-old conflict in Lebanon yesterday as he launched what may prove a protracted fight for his own political survival.
Mr Olmert's admission in a stormy Knesset session came in the face of devastating poll figures showing a majority of the Israeli public believes none or only a very small part of the goals of the war had been achieved.
Adding insult to injury, the leader of Hizbollah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, crowed on television that his guerrillas had achieved a "strategic historic victory" over Israel. (The whole Israeli PR, the Potemkin façade has gone. - HR)
The Prime Minister, who was repeatedly heckled by opposition MPs during his address, insisted the international commitments in Friday night's UN resolution would "change fundamentally" the balance of forces on the country's northern border.
OPPONENTS OF THE WAR EJECTED FROM THE CHAMBER
But, facing his first major political crisis since winning the election five months ago, he acknowledged "the overall responsibility for this operation lies with me, the Prime Minister. I am not asking to share this with anyone." A number of Knesset members including the Israeli Arab Ahmed Tibi, a furious opponent of the war, were ejected from the chamber.
The opening of what is likely to prove a bitter post-mortem came as the two sides began an uneasy truce. The conflict is estimated to have cost well over 1,000 Lebanese lives as well as those of 156 Israelis - civilians and soldiers.
The fragility of the ceasefire was underlined by four incidents in which Israeli troops shot dead six Hizbollah fighters after the ceasefire began at 8am yesterday. The Israeli military insisted the incidents were within guidelines permitting troops to open fire when threatened and did not jeopardise the truce.
Promising that the government "will have to examine ourselves at all levels," Mr Olmert fought to pre-empt a probable campaign by the political right by declaring that Hizbollah had been dealt a "harsh blow". He added that the guerrilla group was no longer "a state within a state" or a "terrorist organisation that is allowed to act inside a state as an arm of the axis of evil", referring to Syria and Iran.
While refraining from a direct personal attack on Mr Olmert, Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right- wing Likud opposition, lost little time in declaring "there were many failures, failures in identifying the threat, failures in preparing to meet the threat, failures in the management of the war, failures in the management of the home front."
ARMY IS EMBEDDED IN ISRAELI SOCIETY - [FPF-Url.: http://tinyurl.com/q3fnw]
Critics from right and left were fortified by a Globes Smith poll showing, remarkably given the degree to which the army is embedded in Israeli society, that 52 per cent of electors believed the Israel Defence Forces had been unsuccessful in its Lebanon offensive as opposed to 44 per cent who believed it did well.
Mr Netanyahu also pointedly chose to attack unilateral withdrawals - the issue on which Mr Olmert fought his election in March. Mr Netanyahu said: "We left Lebanon to the last centimetre and they are firing. We left Gaza to the last centimetre and they are firing."
Meanwhile, the Hizbollah leader said he believes the Lebanese army and international troops are "incapable of protecting Lebanon". He also said it was the "wrong time" for a public discussion on disarming the guerrilla group.
At the eastern end of the northern border, heavy artillery barrages and repeated tank machine-gun fire continued yesterday up to the ceasefire deadline.
But as the artillery batteries fell silent and firing stopped, there was a final single explosion at about 8.05pm, sending a plume of grey smoke upwards before the uneasy calm began.
Amid a wave of angry civilian reactions in Israel after more than a month in which an estimated 3,500 rockets (Israeli figures - HR) were fired into northern Israel, Sam Echahid, the manager of a local supermarket, was asked whether he thought the ceasefire would hold.
He said: "I hope not. We haven't done anything yet."
[enditem]
The last 'remark' of course being a warning: Israel already has used it's global US based propaganda machine to - after a few hours yesterday - start announcing ''breaches of the cease fire by the Hezbollah.'' Breaches and bombs they fake themselves to keep the illegal conflict going. Israel has never given - nor now gives a damn - about what the rest of the world thinks or any by them formed UN resolutions. Which anybody can see happened and happens.
The unreliable Independent's Url.: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1219280.ece
DEFINITION: Any source of 'information' - like Fisk's Independent and Fisk himself - using the official 9/11 version by Washington - against the Law of Nature - is absolutely unreliable. - * SCHOLARS FOR 9/11 TRUTH - American and other scientists, diplomats, researchers etc.: What happened on 9/11? - What is happening to our world? - How can we improve our situation? - Url.: http://www.st911.org/
* The BBC is the worst warmonger on earth - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8d3lo
* 'Fishy' papers and the 'Chomskys' helping to wreck our world: Url. http://tinyurl.com/mm6yg
* DEFENDING ISRAELI GENOCIDES: ''During time of war, enemy has no innocents'' - the Israeli 'Yesha Rabbinical Council' announced in response to an IDF war crime in Kfar Qanna that killed 54 Lebanese civilians, including 37 children. - [http://tinyurl.com/rsw33] - "According to Jewish law, during a time of battle and war, there is no such term as 'innocents' of the enemy. - All of the discussions on Christian morality are weakening the spirit of the army and the nation and are costing us in the blood of our soldiers and civilians." the statement said. (Efrat Weiss) - Url.: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3283720,00.html
* ISRAELI WRITER URI AVNERY - JUNKIES OF WAR - Israel is conquering South Lebanon as flies conquer fly-paper - Indymedia Beirut/Lebanon - Url.: http://beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2006/08/5184.shtml
* NEWS FROM INDYMEDIA in LEBANON - BEIRUT - Url.: http://beirut.indymedia.org/en/
* DEFINITION OF SEMITES: from The Collin’s English Dictionary -1984 - "Semitic: a member of the group of Caucasoid people who speak a Semitic language, including the Jews and Arabs as well as the Ancient Babylonians (Iraqis), the Assyrians (Syria), and the Phoenicians (the Lebanese of today). Semitic: a branch or sub-family of languages that includes Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew.” - Palestinians and Lebanese are semites.
* PREPARING THE GENOCIDE FOR 'ERETZ ISRAEL' - 'A Clean Break: Strategy for Securing the Realm' - The new Israeli ''Pentagon Papers'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/zksqh
* US/ISRAELI GENOCIDE NEWS: ''MORE TIME TO BOMB'' - ESSENTIAL 6 MINUTE VIDEO - We defy anyone to watch this 6 minute video, entitled MORE TIME TO BOMB, and not be enraged at the scale of Israel's atrocities in Lebanon and Gaza which 'they' are holocausting. - 6 minute video - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/k8mm5
* The Dutch author this far has worked abroad for more than 4 decades for international media as an independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Having practical experience of coups and the obscenity of war: seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism!
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