Peace in our time -- Post 6 (Updated and bumped)
Contributed by Bill Faith
Sorta continued from Peace in our time -- Post 3, but also sorta from Re: Peace in Our Time and Re: Re: Peace in our time Breaking: IDF reaches Litani; ceasefire set for 7 a.m. Monday
Allahpundit
IDF officials said yesterday, before the ceasefire, that it would take them a week to get to the river. Less than 24 hours later, with time now of the essence, some units are already there. According to their top commander in the field, they could have been there 10 days ago.
It sounded before like they were going to take Hezbollah out in the course of pushing north. Now it sounds like they’re going to bypass them, grab as much land as they can, and then engage the pockets of jihadis they missed on the way. Encircling, in other words. Follow that link for a broad strategic picture from Debka, which, as usual, may or may not be talking out of its ass. They’re certainly right, though, that the clock is ticking.
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I wish I'd saved the links to the news about that Israeli field commander getting replaced. "Monty, meet George. Bye, Monty."
*** Israel to Halt Lebanon War Monday Morning
By James Joyner
Israel has announced it will end its war in Lebanon early Monday morning. Israel will halt its war in Lebanon at 7 a.m. Monday (midnight EDT Sunday night), a senior Israeli government official said Saturday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly on the sensitive matter. Israel’s Cabinet was to endorse the U.N. cease-fire resolution later Sunday.
Israeli helicopters, meanwhile, flew hundreds of commandos into the Hezbollah heartland, and some army units reached the Litani River on Saturday as both sides indicated they would accept the U.N. cease-fire plan to stop heavy fighting still raging in southern Lebanon.
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Euphoric Reality: You, Sir, Are No Churchill…
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Dan Riehl: Israel's Sheer Stupidity
*** Update and bump. Original timestamp 14:02 FAQ - Special "Peace In Our Time" Edition!
Dean Barnett
1) What would happen if all the Arab nations and their terrorist proxies like Hezbollah set down their arms and gave up their ambitions to drive Israel into the sea?
There would be peace in the Middle East.
2) What would happen if Israel disbanded the IDF, junked its nuclear weapons and declared to its neighbors that she would do anything to live in peace?
Israel would be annihilated, millions of its citizens killed. The term genocide could be used to describe the ensuing holocaust, but since that term has been so hopelessly debased by American academics, a new term would have to be created like super-duper-mega genocide to really capture the nature of things.
3) You sound angry. What’s wrong?
Ehud Olmert has proven an utter failure as wartime leader. The world will be reaping the bitter harvest of his catastrophic weakness and vacillations for years.
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