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By: Blue Crab Boulevard » Blog Archive » This Will Be Interesting To Watch

Blue Crab Boulevard » Blog Archive » This Will Be Interesting To Watch — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:52:24 +0000

[...] I've taken exception to David Ignatius of the Washington Post acting as an unofficial back channel for Hezbollah during the war in Lebanon. More than once, too. Today's column is still singing the praises of diplomacy and negotiation, despite those tactics absolute total lack of results for all these years. At best a negotiated settlement has held for a few years then collapsed whenever terror organizations have been the prime players. (Nations like Egypt and Jordan have been able to abide by their word.) But Ignatius says one thing here that may come back to haunt him: The wild card in the deal is Hezbollah. As the war dragged on, most pundits judged the group's leader, Hasan Nasrallah, the big winner. But that will be true, paradoxically, only if he abides by the deal Siniora made and withdraws his armed fighters from southern Lebanon. If he tries to resume the war or continues to operate as Iran's proxy, he will lose his new halo. U.S. officials believe that Nasrallah may have resisted Iranian pressure to continue the fight when he agreed to Siniora's package. Meanwhile, the Syrians, Nasrallah's other patron, played no role at all in the diplomatic outcome, deepening their isolation. [...]

By: Gregg Carlstrom

Gregg Carlstrom — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:06:41 +0000

Ignatius also totally overlooks an important reason for Sadat’s signing the peace treaty: It started a flow of foreign aid and investment into the country. Hizballah is not going to be persuaded with rational economic interests… it isn’t even a state. It’s a terrorist organization. And it’s being used by Tehran to fight a proxy war in Lebanon.

There are far too many extenuating circumstances for the 2006 war to turn out like 1973.

By: Guy

Guy — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:36:14 +0000

Some scattered and disconnected thoughts:

It’s interesting that our friend Ignatius fails to tell his readers that the Israelis eventually split a seam between two advancing Egyptian armies and were able to completely cut one of them off, just as the cease fire was signed.I would propose that it was not so much Egypt’s attack that brought about the negotiations, but the fact that they(the Egyptian’s)were getting their butts kicked by the Israelis.

It’s also interesting that Ignatius calls the affair in Lebanon a disaster. I would ask, “for whom”?

“In dealing with the Palestinians and the Lebanese, the Israelis will have to revise their doctrine that their adversaries can be coerced solely by military force.” Good grief…what on earth can Ignatius be thinking of? What does he have to say about the ill fated Land For Peace proposition?

And finally, Arafat and Hamas were looked upon only as a terrorist and his organization until they were recognized diplomatically by Bill Clinton. Hopefully, we’re not seeing the same theme played out with Nasrallah and Hezbollah.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:33:22 +0000

“…U.S. officials recognize that Nasrallah is likely to emerge as the strongest political force in Beirut, and they hope he will make strategic choices that will build a stronger and more stable Lebanon.”

So tell me, who will be the first in the administration to negotiate with a group that killed hundreds of marines and others? and whose doctrine is to destroy another country – Israel?

Free Press and all, but it is amazing how newspapers such as the NYTime and Washington Post are often un-American in their viewpoint. It is fair to be critical but to be a tool for our advisaries is absurd and amazing. I can’t imagine anyone that is Jewish and/or supports American policy or mourns the loss of our citizens at the hands of terrorists – subscribing to newspapers such as these? amazing world we live in… http://www.what-a-world.com

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 07:05:57 +0000

Found a link to this over on Rantburg. It was written in 2002. Thought it might be of interest.

http://www.freelebanon.org/articles/a246.htm

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 06:33:08 +0000

I have a feeling that as long as Israel restricts her efforts to the taking apart of Hezbollah, there really isn’t going to be much of an outcry from the world. She could probably keep it up for another week or two without much howling if the coastal blockade could be lifted somewhat to allow inspection of ships and those with non-military cargos to be let through.

Nailing Nasrallah is going to be difficult as he could be hiding in Syria.

By: Mike's America

Mike's America — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:22:47 +0000

President Bush offered the world a choice after September 11th:

“Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.”

It’s amazing that there are people in this country who choose to side with the terrorists.

They’ll believe any atrocity and blame Israel. They’ll refuse to listen to any alternative explanation of what appear to be tragic events like Qana.

We’re dealing with an enemy that is commanded by Allah to cheat, steal from and kill the infidel. Lying seems to come naturally to them.