Resolution to Halt Fighting in Lebanon Is Unanimously Approved

[IntiRaymi]

This just in...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/11/world/middleeast/11cnd-nations.html?hp&ex=1155355200&en=20b4943ae7cb4fcb&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Botany]

1. About time.

only after 30 days of killing and 900,000 Lebanese now are refugees.

[IntiRaymi]

2. And yeah, what about the abuses in Gaza now?

[Oversea Visitor]

3. One issue at a time

When the tide turn.... the tide turns.
One issue at a time.

[ShockediSay]

12. US must stop supply of WMDs to Israel now nt

[mom cat]

18. You are so right there!

[hack89]

4. I wonder how Hezbollah will vote ...

they can't be pleased that they will not be allow to retake their positions in south lebanon. The Arab countries just knifed them in the back.

[Oversea Visitor]

14. The Hezbollah is the Lebanese people.

As long as the Lebanese army control the south there is no different to the Hezbollah.

As long as Israel leave that is no different for Hezbollah.

They put on their uniform and hey they now Lebanese army.

There is nothing to vote here.

[bemildred]

5. I predict this will not work. nt

[txb]

6. this is NOT going to be very popular with the Rapture-Ready folks

....I can already hear them weeping.....

[IntiRaymi]

7. Yep. I think you are right.

But consider Annan's statement:

"Mr. Annan said he welcomed the resolution but regretted how long it had taken to be adopted.

"I am profoundly disappointed that the Council did not reach this point much, much earlier," he said. "I am convinced that my disappointment and sense of frustration are shared by hundreds of millions of people around the world." "

[bemildred]

8. What should I consider about it?

Mr. Annan's interests are with the UN, it's not good for the UN to look impotent, so he is glad to see something. But there no reason as it sits to expect this to lead to an end in the fighting. In fact, I would wager we will see an escalation in the fighting over the next week or two.

[The Magistrate]

9. It Does, Sir

Seem to contain any number of loop-holes a person disposed to do it could drive an armored column through. Any action by Hezbollah allows Israeli response, and there is no reason to expect Hezbollah will refrain from action. Anything but a N.A.T.O. caliber force moved in with orders to seperate the combatants and quash Hezbollah in accordance with the earlier resolution is simply pious noise.

[bemildred]

10. Pious noise indeed, Sir. And pompous too.

I think we are about to get a lot more "clarity".

[The Magistrate]

11. That Would Be My Guess Too, Sir

And a damned shame it is all around, too....

"War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off."

[Ghost Dog]

16. Hezbollah could/should immediately comply

by stopping its rocket attacks against northern Israel, thus gaining a political advantage, even though Israel already fails to comply (at least until their cabinet's proposed meeting Sunday) by continuing and 'massively' expanding their incursion. Israel is permitted, effective immediately, only 'defensive' action, and so, apparently, is Hezbollah, according to the language of the resolution. So achieving an initial ceasefire is going to be very difficult.

There are many gaping loopholes, as you say. The key practical first (or second) step would seem to be moving in that 'beefed-up' UN force together with the Lebanese Army without having to confront either the IDF or Hezbollah on the way in. And that, as they say, will take time to arrange and implement. How much time? An IDF spokesperson has referred to the expanded incursion as being 'open ended'...

Perhaps, if one were to be cynical, this is another resolution that is not widely expected to be thoroughly and effectvely implemented.

[IntiRaymi]

13. U.N. Council Backs Measure to Halt War in Lebanon

U.N. Council Backs Measure to Halt War in Lebanon

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 11 — The Security Council agreed unanimously on Friday on a measure calling for a full cessation of hostilities in Lebanon, deploying 30,000 Lebanese and United Nations forces in southern Lebanon and calling upon Israel to withdraw its forces “in parallel.”
After rejecting earlier versions, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel accepted the resolution. But, under a deal an Israeli official said was approved by the United States, Mr. Olmert will wait until Sunday to obtain his cabinet’s approval. Until then, he will expand his monthlong military campaign against the Hezbollah militia and its rocket arsenal.

more @:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/12/world/middleeast/12nations.html?hp&ex=11

[Vidar]

15. It will at least give Lebanon a respite. Thanks for posting.

[Ghost Dog]

17. Full text of UN Security Council Resolution 1701:

http://newsinfo.inq7.net/breakingnews/world/view_article.php?article_id=14873