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[ThomasWach]

Israeli reservists set for ground offensive
By Ferry Biedermann in Beirut and FT reporters

Published: July 20 2006 20:20 | Last updated: July 21 2006 08:49

It emerged on Friday that the Israeli army may be preparing to launch a major ground offensive bolstered by thousand of fresh reserves after reports in the Israeli press by a senior military commander.

In the Maariv newspaper, Alon Friedman, an Israeli brigadier-general said: “It’s possible that in the coming days our ground operations will increase. We have many forces, we will carry out a massive recruitment of reserves and it’s possible that many more forces ... will reach the border in the next few days.”
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Senior Israeli military officials have said that air raids are insufficient to strike at the heart of Hizbollah.The repeated heavy shelling of Beirut over the past few days has destroyed vast numbers of civilian homes and key infrastructure, but has failed to penetrate many key Hizbollah targets.

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Vorallem wenn ich das letzte da lese, zweifle ich sehr darin, dass das die einzig gangbare Lösung war. Man hätte auch über weniger tote Zivilisten politischen Druck ausüben können.
Mehr oder minder gezielt Zivilisten zu töten um eine internationale Krise auszulösen und internationale Aufmerksamkeit zu generieren, diese Strategie Israels erinnert fast an ihren terroristischen Counterpart.
Und sie dürfte sich mittelfristig kaum auszahlen.

Siehe auch dazu:

Two preconditions for hope in the Middle East
By Anthony Cordesman

Published: July 18 2006 19:27 | Last updated: July 18 2006 19:27

The most the world can now hope for out of current events in the Arab-Israeli conflict is the kind of pause or ceasefire that comes from exhaustion or the temporary intimidation of one side. Hizbollah and Hamas may be forced to back down, but only for a while. Even if they do agree to some form of ceasefire, they can still go on attacking Israel using proxies or claiming “misunderstandings” or accidents.

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