The next 24 hours or so are going to be interesting, to say the least. I took the rare, for me recently, step in the wee hours of this morning of going to be with no alarm set. Slept till I couldn't go back to sleep any more, should be good to go on short naps for the next couple of days at least.

Israel Cabinet Unanimously Adopts Cease-Fire
Ed Morrissey

It does not appear that the UN Security Council cease-fire resolution created much controversy in Israeli politics. Ehud Olmert's Cabinet unanimously agreed to adopt it, with only one abstention:

The cabinet approved the UN cease-fire deal after a stormy debate Sunday, clearing a key hurdle to ending the monthlong Mideast war, the government said.

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Lebanon About To Fall
Ed Morrissey

The cease-fire agreement appears to have created a crisis in Lebanon's government, as a Cabinet meeting of Siniora's government has been abruptly cancelled. The Cabinet was supposed to vote on a plan to deploy their army into southern Lebanon and to displace Hezbollah. That has now been indefinitely delayed -- which means that Israel is not bound by the agreement to stop fighting:

A critical Lebanese Cabinet meeting set for Sunday to discuss implementation of the cease-fire between Israel and Hizbullah was postponed, a move that was likely to delay the dispatch of the Lebanese army to the south and an end of the fighting.

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Does anyone not believe that this crisis has been precipitated by Hezbollah's refusal to leave southern Lebanon and disarm? ...

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Do read all of Curt's excellent analysis at Flopping Aces.

Contributed by Bill Faith on August 13, 2006 at 02:50 PM in Bill Faith, Hezbollah, Iran, Islamism Delenda Est, Israel, Lebanon, Syria | Permalink

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