Israel Is Losing This War

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Israel Is Losing This War
Its leaders need to act fast.

BY BRET STEPHENS
Tuesday, August 1, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT

Israel is losing this war.

This is not to say that it will lose the war, or that the war was unwinnable to start with. But if it keeps going as it is, Israel is headed for the greatest military humiliation in its history. During the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Israelis were stunned by their early reversals against Egypt and Syria, yet they eked out a victory over these two powerfully armed, Soviet-backed adversaries in 20 days. The conflict with Hezbollah--a 15,000-man militia chiefly armed with World War II-era Katyusha rockets--is now in its 21st day. So far, Israel has nothing to show for its efforts: no enemy territory gained, no enemy leaders killed, no abatement in the missile barrage that has sent a million Israelis from their homes and workplaces.

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One War

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One War
In its war on terror, the U.S. would never accept the limits being pushed on Israel.

BY FRANK J. GAFFNEY
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT

WASHINGTON--On Sept. 11, 2001, a freedom-loving nation was attacked by a terrorist organization operating from the territory of a sovereign state with the acquiescence, if not the active complicity, of the latter's government. The United States retaliated with what can only be called a "disproportionate response."

How We Fight Terrorists

America launched air and ground assaults on Afghanistan, aimed at destroying not only the al Qaeda safe havens but toppling the Taliban regime. We damaged or destroyed critical Afghan infrastructure so as to deny its use to the enemy. Civilian casualties occurred, as did refugee flows. At one point, the U.N. declared the resulting dislocation a humanitarian crisis.

Once the campaign to eliminate al Qaeda was launched, there was no consideration given to negotiating with the terrorists or the government that afforded them protection. The United States would not have contemplated a U.N.-mandated ceasefire, let alone the insertion of an international peacekeeping force under a Chapter 7 mandate from the Security Council--whose purpose, inevitably, would have been to protect the terrorists from our military, not the other way around.

And most especially, it would have been inconceivable that the U.S. could accede to one of its enemy's central demands--for example, the removal of all American forces from the Mideast--as part of a negotiated ceasefire brokered by the U.N. and approved by the Taliban at the direction of al Qaeda.

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Призыв к дню траура по Гуш Катифу

http://i-navi.livejournal.com/20362.html

Кто-нибудь ещё это поддерживает? Было бы полезно, ИМХО.

Гамала

Спасибо nechaman - http://mz1313.livejournal.com/13464.html

В Гамале все погибли, кроме двух сестёр Филиппа.
Во время тройной зачистки их не смогли найти.
Гамала относилась к городам крепостного типа,
куда очень трудно ворваться и откуда нельзя уйти.
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