Continued from Peace in our time. A Dog's gotta sleep sometimes; sometimes alarms get ignored and "catnaps" last longer than they were supposed to. A lot happened while I wasn't paying attention.

Got a trackback on that last post from "President Neville Chamberlain" at Too Cool for Words. It's a good post. Go there. I'll swipe some of his links later.

U.N. Security Council Passes Lebanon Ceasefire Resolution
By Chris Lawrence

A joint U.S.-French effort to pass a resolution calling for an end of hostilities in Lebanon was unanimously approved Friday by the U.N. Security Council:

The Security Council agreed unanimously on Friday on a measure calling for a full cessation of hostilities in Lebanon, deploying 30,000 Lebanese and United Nations forces in southern Lebanon and calling upon Israel to withdraw its forces “in parallel.”

After rejecting earlier versions, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel accepted the resolution. But, under a deal an Israeli official said was approved by the United States, Mr. Olmert will wait until Sunday to obtain his cabinet’s approval. Until then, he will expand his monthlong military campaign against the Hezbollah militia and its rocket arsenal.

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Alexandra von Maltzan: "To Be, Or To Cease Fire" That Is The Question (UPDATED) 

Incompetent Ehud Olmert?
David Bernstein

Word from Israel, from both the English-language media and my relatives there, is that folks are very unhappy with various aspects of the cease-fire deal that the U.N. Security Council has just passed, to wit (I haven't seen the final version of the resolution, but this is what I picked up from the media):

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Dafydd sees it differently:

Hey, Mulligan Man!

I was going to blog on the American-French ceasefire agreement offered for the Israel-Hezbollah war, but Captain Ed beat me to it; he is nothing if not prolific! In any event, I would have said more or less what he says here:

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But allow me to go over this a little more thoroughly and show why Ed and I are right, and the boys at Power Line are wrong, wrong, wrong.

First, here is a summary of the main points of the agreement:

[Read the whole thing. Really. All of it.]

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Ed Morrissey: Now It's Time To Play Beat The Clock

Contributed by Bill Faith on August 12, 2006 at 07:53 AM in Bill Faith, Hezbollah, Islamism Delenda Est, Israel, Lebanon, UNuseful | Permalink

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