Re: Hizbollah eliminate Israeli warship.
While all of the news services follow some big plumes of smoke, the real action is in the Bekka valley, and the buffer zone near Israel. No reporters, no cameras, but the Israeli Air Force is laying some hurt on the Hezbullies.
They are flying hundreds of sorties at objectives catelogued over the past six year. They are blowing up warehouses of rockets, homes of Hizbullah officials, meeting places, and anything owned or used by Hizbullah. With overhead images from satellites and drones they have developed hundreds of bomb points. Every day that this goes on, Hizbullah becomes depowered.
What people don't realize is that the radicals of Hizbullah have grown quite old. They have become wealthy and comfortable in Lebanon, and the Israelis are bombing their holdings into oblivion. The Israelis have records of ownership for all of the leaders of Hizbullah. Over the past six years of peace the leaders of Hizbullah have amassed personal fortunes. Those are being eliminated day by day. Every hour that goes by increases the odds that the real government of Lebanon will sieze control of the south, as the whores of Hizbullah are depowered.
72 more hours of conflict and Hizbullah is half of what it was. The longer it takes for pressure to mount for a ceasefire, the more likely Lebanon will have a better balance of power.
My dear Jewish brother, your above theory is a sheer fantasy. Don't underestimate the power of resistance.
The voilence can never solve a long standing problem in the middle east. The only way to solve the problem is through dialogue. Unfortunately ordinary Israelis do not beleive in a dialogue. A beautiful opportunity to bring peace in the middle east was lost when Netyahun and Sharon were elected by Israelis and Bush was elected as president by Americans. Now everything is back to square one. A moderate leader like Yasser Arafat was undermined and now you have got a much more radical partner across the border with whom you can never establish peace. The same mistake is being committed in Lebnon by undermining another moderate administration. Don't be surprised if Hezbollah nominee becomes the president of Lebnon in a few years.
Ordinary person in the middle east now believes that peace can be brought only when they achieve military parity and so this violence will continue. Iraq operation has failed, middle east peace treaty is dead, laden is uncaptured and oil prices are rising and Israeli people have not achieved their long cherised dream of peace. This is the achievement of Bush.