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2006-08-03 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Olmert: 15,000 int'l combat troops needed, only then will Israel withdraw

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Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-03 14:32|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 gonna be there a long long time.

but then, I 'spect that's been the plan all along.

Posted by kelly 2006-08-03 14:55|| 2006-08-03 14:55|| Front Page Top

#2 notice the word 'peacekeeper' sorta left of the discussion?

Posted by Shuque Spavise4087 2006-08-03 15:05|| 2006-08-03 15:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like the Litani may be the new northern border of Israel, doesn't it?

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-08-03 15:26|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-08-03 15:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Israel is setting a condition that cannot be met. Smart politics. "We will have a cease-fire after the..." OP is correct.

Posted by SR-71 2006-08-03 16:13|| 2006-08-03 16:13|| Front Page Top

#5 And the 15,000 UN soldiers need to be north of the new Litani border between Israel and Lebanon.

Posted by Darrell 2006-08-03 16:17|| 2006-08-03 16:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Rumsfeld can do it with 1500, just ask him.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-08-03 17:16|| 2006-08-03 17:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Ain't no way on God's Green Earth anyone (not other than the US, and Rumsfield says we're too busy) will send troops to actually fight.

Some years ago I read a sci fi book wherein one of the chief actors was the Israeli Empire. Seems they kept pushing back the bad guys and annexing the land in order to secure their borders. Eventually they ended up pretty much ruling the world.

Personally, I would welcome our new Israeli overlords.

Posted by kelly 2006-08-03 17:24|| 2006-08-03 17:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Do I detect a new meme here? The Litani border? Israel's response to offensive action is to push their borders further forward?

Works for me.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-08-03 17:36|| 2006-08-03 17:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Cheaper than a wall and you can pump from it too.

Posted by Darrell 2006-08-03 17:40|| 2006-08-03 17:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Pushing out the borders happened with each war until the Yom Kippur War. That allowed Sadat to sign a peace treaty with Israel and get back the Sinai. Of course, that didn't work out very well for Sadat.

Israel should annex Southern Lebanon and expell all the Muslim Lebanese.

Posted by SR-71 2006-08-03 18:56|| 2006-08-03 18:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Personally, I would welcome our new Israeli overlords.

kelly, dear, I was feeling sorry for myself until I read that sentence. Thank you -- you made my day! :-D

Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-03 19:07|| 2006-08-03 19:07|| Front Page Top

#12 Kelly, *I* remember, as a teenager, reading a Sci-Fi book written as a collection of letters from a budding xenoArchaeologist to her telepath, disabled sister. In one of them, he discussed meeting an israeli telepath, and described him as "-a wanderer after he graduated from college, visiting Beiruit, Damascus, Amman and all those other big Israeli cities."

we may type in "ROFLMAO!", but I actually DID that for fifteen minutes after reading that.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2006-08-03 19:52|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2006-08-03 19:52|| Front Page Top

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