Sunday, August 13, 2006

Both sides agree to ceasefire in Lebanon - sort of.

As reported in the Washington Post, both Israel and Hezbollah have agreed with caveats that allow them to continue fighting, if it suits their purposes.
The Israeli cabinet voted Sunday to accept a U.N. -- declared cease-fire, even as the fiercest ground fighting of the war continued in southern Lebanon and Israel launched new airstrikes on southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah and the Lebanese government had accepted the cease-fire with reservations Saturday night. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said at a news conference after the Sunday vote that Israeli forces would not withdraw from southern Lebanon until both an international force and the Lebanese army took control of the area.,,,

....The Hezbollah leader, Hasan Nasrallah, said in a televised announcement Saturday that his militia forces would abide by the U.N. cease-fire but only after the timing of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon is worked out and Israeli troops stop attacking on Lebanese soil. Once Israeli military operations cease, Hezbollah fighters will "adhere to it without hesitation," he said.
So the Israelis will stay in Lebanon until the peacekeepers are in place (and 'defend' themselves until then). Hezbollah will stop fighting when they have a timetable for Israeli withdrawal. And the Lebanese Army and the peacekeepers will, no doubt, just walk into the fray and separate them like two sqabbling children. That should work just fine.

And in the meantime, the IAF keeps blowing up everything they see.

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