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Sunday 07/16/2006 8:50:46am
Name:	Matt Bruce
Homepage:	http://thecaptainsamerica,blogspot.com
E-Mail:	mattbruce@newssarasota.com
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City/Country:	Sarasota, FL., USA
Comments:	Israel's War With Hamas & Hezbullah Terrorist's Expands... Written By: Matt Bruce Managing Editor & Publisher News Sarasota ::: From the Newsbull Weblog of: Matt Bruce::: Read & Respond @: http://www.newsbull.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=34868 A Newsbull Contributing Columnist SARASOTA, FL. (NS/AP/REUTERS) - Put yourself in Israel's shoes for a minute... First a young Israeli Corporal gets kidnapped by Hamas in an attack that killed another soldier and that helped to launch the Gaza Strip incursion by Israeli Military Tanks and Troops... Then Hezbullah comes along and kills 3 Israeli soldiers and kidnaps 2 Israeli soldiers after they came across the border with Lebanon and this starts another incursion by Israeli Military Tanks and Troops... An invasion like this not once but twice constitutes 'Acts of War'. For that reason, Israel has every right and reason to do what they're now doing in The Gaza Strip and Lebanon... We are now in the period preceding major conventional operations. Israel is in the process of sealing the Lebanese coast. They have disrupted Lebanese telecommunications, although they have not completely collapsed the structure. Israeli aircraft are attacking Hezbollah's infrastructure and road system... In the meantime, Hezbollah, aware it is going to be hit hard, is in a use-it or-lose-it scenario, firing what projectiles it can into Israel. The Israeli strategy appears to be designed to do two things. First, the Israelis are trying to prevent any supplies from entering Lebanon, including reinforcements. That is why they are attacking all coastal maritime facilities. Second, they are degrading the roads in Lebanon. That will keep reinforcements from reaching Hezbollah fighters engaged in the south... As important, it will prevent the withdrawal and redeployment of heavy equipment deployed by Hezbollah in the south, particularly their rockets, missiles and launchers. The Israelis are preparing the battlefield to prevent a Hezbollah retreat or maneuver... Hezbollah's strategy has been imposed on it. It seems committed to standing and fighting. The rate of fire they are maintaining into Israel is clearly based on an expectation that Israel will be attacking. The rocketry guarantees the Israelis will attack. Hezbollah has been reported to have anti-tank and anti-air weapons... The Israelis will use airmobile tactics to surround and isolate Hezbollah concentrations, but in the end, they will have to go in, engage and defeat Hezbollah tactically. Hezbollah obviously knows this, but there is no sign of disintegration on its part. At the very least, Hezbollah is projecting an appetite for combat... Sources in Beirut, who have been reliable to this point, say Hezbollah has weapons that have not yet been seen, such as anti-aircraft missiles, and that these will be used shortly. Whatever the truth of this, Hezbollah does not seem to think its situation is hopeless... The uncertain question is Syria. No matter how effectively Israel seals the Lebanese coast, so long as the Syrian frontier is open, Hezbollah might get supplies from there, and might be able to retreat there. So far, there has been only one reported airstrike on a Syrian target. Both Israel and Syria were quick to deny this... Israel continues to blast Beirut's airport and other Lebanese targets, bringing its air and naval campaign to the doorsteps of the capital and threatening massive retaliation after guerrilla rockets for the first time reached Israel's third-largest city, Haifa... The fighting, which has killed 57 people, was a dramatic escalation in the battle between Israel and Hezbollah, an Islamic militant group which has a free hand in southern Lebanon and holds seats in parliament. The Lebanese government, caught in the middle, pleaded for a cease-fire... But Israel said it was determined to beat Hezbollah back and deny the militant fighters positions they traditionally held along the northern border... This is exactly what they should and will do since it makes perfect Military sense in helping with the defense of Israel... "If the government of Lebanon fails to deploy its forces, as is expected of a sovereign government, we shall not allow Hezbollah forces to remain any further on the borders of the state of Israel," Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said... Israel's offensive was its heaviest in Lebanon in 24 years, launched after Hezbollah guerrillas snatched two Israeli soldiers in a brazen cross-border raid Wednesday. Two days of Israeli bombings killed 45 Lebanese and two Kuwaitis and wounded 103. Two Israeli civilians and eight Israeli soldiers have also been killed, the military's highest death toll in four years... With the airport closed, many tourists were trapped while others drove over the mountains to Syria. Residents stayed indoors, leaving Beirut streets were largely empty. Others packed supermarkets to stock up on goods. Long lines formed on gas stations, with many quickly running out of gas... Israel said its attacks were intended to prevent the movement of the captured soldiers and hamper Hezbollah's military capacity. It said it had information Hezbollah was trying to take the two soldiers to its ally, Iran... Of course Russia and China who have various interest's in the Region and supply Hamas with weapons and ammunition, were not supporting the Israeli Military action... Fears mounted among Arab and European governments that violence in Lebanon could spiral out of control in a volatile region already torn by conflicts in Iraq and in Gaza. Israel has launched an offensive in Gaza against Hamas, whose fighters are holding another Israeli soldier captured two weeks ago... President Bush backed Israel's right to defend itself and denounced Hezbollah as "a group of terrorists who want to stop the advance of peace." But he also expressed worries the Israeli assault could cause the fall of Lebanon's anti-Syrian government. "We're concerned about the fragile democracy in Lebanon," Bush said in Germany... The European Union took a harsher tone, criticizing Israel for using what it called "disproportionate" force. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said he was planning a peace mission. Of course Crude Oil jumped to new all-time high's of $76.70 per barrel with no end in sight to the spiralling prices... The Arab League called an emergency meeting of foreign ministers in Cairo on Saturday, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned that Israel's Lebanon offensive "is raising our fears of a new regional war." Egypt launched a diplomatic bid to resolve the crisis, amid apparent frustration among moderate Arab nations that Hezbollah — and by implication its top ally Syria — had started the fight with Israel... The shockwaves from the fighting began to be felt as tensions sharpened and crude oil prices rose to a new intraday record of $76.70 a barrel... Future's of Oil 'could' reach $80 per barrel or go even higher if the fighting doesn't stop and the situation in North Korea doesn't 'calm down'.. Hezbollah's rocket attack on the port city of Haifa was its deepest such strike into northern Israel yet. No injuries were reported in Haifa, home to 270,000 residents and a major oil refinery 30 miles south of the border. Still, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Daniel Ayalon, called the attack "a major, major escalation." "Those who fire into such a densely populated area will pay a heavy price," said David Baker, an official in the Israeli prime minister's office... Hezbollah's deputy leader denied its fighters fired on Haifa, but Israel blamed the group, which had warned earlier in the day it would strike the city if Beirut were targeted. Israeli officials at first did not confirm that the blast was a rocket, but after an investigation they confirmed it was a Katyusha launched from southern Lebanon. Witnesses also confirmed that a rocket hit the city... Israeli Helicopters and Fighter jets had been in the air all day and all night supporting the advancing ground Troops who were pushing closer to Beirut... The militants also fired rockets at four other northern Israeli towns, killing a 40-year-old woman on her balcony in Nahariya and a man in Safad... Soon the Haifa attack, Israeli helicopter gunships raked fuel depots at Beirut's seaside airport with machine guns and missiles. The tanks exploded, sending gigantic flames into the night sky just outside Beirut. Earlier in the day, warplanes shut down the airport with strikes that pounded craters into all three of its runways, and Israeli warships sealed Lebanon's ports... By evening, strikes in Hezbollah's stronghold in Beirut's southern neighborhoods appeared imminent. After nightfall Israeli planes dropped leaflets in south Beirut warning residents to avoid areas where Hezbollah operates... Army Chief Brig. Gen. Dan Halutz warned that "nothing is safe" in Lebanon. Israel with what they've done in The Gaza Strip has already shown no Government building is safe... The Israeli warnings of more to come caused panic in Beirut, as people stuck to their homes and stayed away from their jobs.. Thousands — foreign tourists and Lebanese — took to the road from Beirut to Damascus, the only way out of the country after the airport was closed. Travelers to and from Beirut were stranded all over the region after Israel hit the Beirut airport after dawn Thursday. Among them was Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh, who was returning from a visit to Armenia and — like many — was forced to make his way home through Syria... Among the Lebanese dead were a family of 10 and another family of seven, killed when strikes hit their homes in the southern village of Dweir... "It's a massacre," said Abu Talal, a 48-year-old resident who joined scores of Hezbollah supporters and townspeople at the funeral of Shiite cleric Sheik Adel Akkash, who was killed along with his wife and eight children, ages 3 months to 15 years... "This is the (Israeli) arrogance. The raids aim to terrorize us, but morale is high." The last time Israeli strikes targeted Beirut was in 2000, when warplanes hit a power station in the hills above the city after a Hezbollah attack killed Israeli soldiers. Israel has not hit Beirut's airport since its 1982 invasion of Lebanon and occupation of the capital... Israel says it holds Lebanon responsible for Hezbollah's snatching of the two soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser, 31 and Eldad Regev, 26. The Lebanese government insisted it had no prior knowledge of the move and did not condone it — and even withdrew its ambassador to the U.S. after he made comments seemingly in support of the guerrillas... But Israel is doing exactly what they have to do to survive against Terrorist's who are sworn to their destruction. Sound familiar??? Hezbollah fighters operate with almost total autonomy in southern Lebanon, and the government has no control over their actions. But the government has long resisted international pressure to disarm the group. Any attempt to disarm Hezbollah by force could lead to sectarian conflict... I support Israel and their action and would suggest to Hamas and Hezbullah that they return the kidnapped Israeli Soldiers or run the risk of their own Countries destruction and devastation as a result of their own action that has caused this military action to be taken by Israel... In the War against Terrorist's and Terrorism, there is only 1 side that can be taken... May God bless Israel and continue to bless the United States of America... For Now, That's Just 'OUR' Opinion... Matt Bruce Managing Editor & Publishor News Sarasota.com Host Of "The Captain's AMERICA" Radio Program Heard Monday Thru Thursday From 9 To 10 AM ET On 1490 WWPR AM Radio Serving The Bradenton, Sarasota & Tampa Bay, FL. Area... http://thecaptainsamerica.podomatic.com Note - If you like it, post it... 'The Captain'

Wednesday 03/30/2005 3:47:04pm

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Friday 01/28/2005 9:00:27pm

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