By all accounts I’ve seen, Olmert is a fool at best and incapable of making decisions at worst.

I can think of at least two military tactics which could prove effective against Hizbolah hiding in their bunkers and coming out only to shoot IDF in the back.

1) Bulldoze sufficient amounts of dirt over their breathing outlets, which could be found by using infrared vision equipment. It might be helpful of course to raze all the buildings in the settlement
first.

2) Pour gasoline or oil into their, supposedly well interconnected bunkers, and burn them out.

But of course the pussies in charge there don’t have the nuts to do what needs to be done. The result will be future larger and far more horrible conflicts.

The loss of this war is already playing out the worst way possible for US as well, with Iran sensing weakness in Israel’s and US’s resolve to exterminate the Hizbollah rabid dogs.

The fifth column, known to us all as the French, has managed to completely dupe Condi Rice and Bolton and do best what the French do lie, lie, lie and make promises they have no intention of keeping.

what do US and Israel think….? they can get away with this massacre?………the more you lie, the more you cheat, the more you try to deceive the world…..the worst will be the end!
Someone will stop someday……4000-5000 guerellas (lets assume supported by iran & Syria) couldn’t be stopped by world’s fourth largest armed force (supported by US & UK)?

In March 1492, Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain signed the Edict of Expulsion of the Jews, designed to rid Spain of its Jews, who were given the choice of baptism or deportation. Many Jews were so attached to “al-Andalus” (Andalusia) (as the old Muslim Kingdom had been called) that they converted to Christianity and remained in Spain, but about 80,000 Jews crossed the border into Portugal, while 50,000 fled to the new Muslim Ottoman empire, where they were given a warm welcome.
The Spanish reconquista of the old Muslim territories of al-Andalus was a catastrophe for the Jews of Iberia. In the Islamic state, the three religions of the Judaism, Christianity, and Islam had been able to live together in relative harmony for over six hundred years. The Jews in particular had enjoyed a cultural and spiritual renaissance in Islamic Spain, and they were not subject to pogroms that were the lot of the Jewish people in the rest of Europe. But the Christian armies gradually advanced through the peninsula, conquering more and more territory from Islam, they brought their anti-Semitism with them.

The expulsion from Spain in 1492 came at the end of a century that had seen the ejection of the Jews from one part of Europe after another. They were deported from Vienna and Linz in 1421, from Cologne in 1424, from Augsburg in 1439, from Bavaria in 1442, and from crown cities of Moravia in 1454. Jews were expelled from Perugia in 1485, Vicenza (1486), Parma (1488), Milan and Lucca (1489), and Tuscany in 1494.

As you can see Muslims and Jews were able to live in harmony and Jews prosper under the Islamic rule. It is not the fact that Israel is a Jewish state which is causing the problem but the occupation of Arab land.

The argument to blame Hezbollah of the death of civilians that Israel is killing is a sad one. It is the same argument that Osama bin Laden used in justifying killing innocent civilians by blaming the US government for their death. By doing that we are blaming the victims. We should condemn and blame Israel and Hezbolla for the killing of civilians. However Israel is the one who has the most advanced weapons, Laser guided missiles which is so accurate to few inches from the target.

You have to remember that Hezbollah is not an army so they do not have bases to bomb, they will fight and at the end of the day they will go to their own homes and their own families. You can not bomb them without bombing the whole community. For few militants Israel is destroying villages and cities and missing the militants completely.

To say in the old days when a country wins and occupied a land they kept the land; this is a very bad message to give to the Arabs. It tells them that you can get your land only by defeating Israel! I doubt that this is what you want.

Israel still occupies some part of Lebanon, Syria and the west bank. To say that Israel gave some land to them is like saying that Mexico can occupy Texas, it is only one state and the US has 49 other so it is ok.

As long as any part of the land is occupied unrest and war will continue and civilians will die on both sides.

A balance political approach is needed with level headed people and less emotional reaction to every event.

IDF can stay in Lebanon 
While the IDF needs until the end of the week to deal Hizbullah a fatal blow, the military is prepared to remain in southern Lebanon for as long as it takes, even several months, until a multinational force takes control of th…