"Nice work, but we're not done killing yet. Close . . . but, not yet."

[bigtree]

Israeli Minister Praises U.N. Draft

Saturday August 5, 2006 7:01 PM

JERUSALEM (AP) - Agreement by the United States and France on a possible Mideast cease-fire deal is an ``important development,'' but Israel will not halt its war against Hezbollah for the time being, an Israeli Cabinet minister said Saturday.

The draft U.N. Security Council resolution, formulated Saturday, calls for a halt to hostilities.

``It's a very important development,'' Tourism Minister Isaac Herzog told Israel TV's Channel One. ``We have to study the details of this draft. There's a lot in there.''

``The Israeli military continues to act in the meantime, without letup, in many areas,'' he added. ``We still have the coming days for many military missions, but we have to know that the timetable is becoming increasingly shorter.''

It was not immediately clear whether Herzog was speaking for the government. Officials in Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office said no formal reaction was expected Saturday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5995942,00.html

[mike_c]

1. is anyone fooled by this transparent posturing...?

Israel is attacking Lebanon and the US is hamstringing the UN in support of the violence against civilians. Good lord, this is utterly shameful.

[Poll_Blind]

4. Having watched Sharon and Olmert (and Peretz) among others...

...posture and stall, mumbling something about peace to buy more time to allow the Israeli military to continue to do their dirty work, no.

Not any Arabs.

Not most Europeans.

Not most other peoples and nations of the world.

Except the United States, where spin will be force-fed to them by the mainstream media.

PB

[pooja]

2. tourism minister... we have to wait until we have completely, and

most certainly destroyed Lebanon, which has been suckering tourism dollars our ot Israel since becoming an independant state. We have successfully destroyed the airport, shut down harbors, destroyed beach habitat, and all major routes in and out of Lebanon. We have a few more places we want to bomb to ensure foreign tourist dollars end up in the rightful place.

[MysteryToMyself]

7. There was also one or two ships with oil bombed

I don't know what they did about the oil floating in the water. That was several days ago.

That would hurt Israel too I think. Israel is losing their tourism trade too as long as the war lasts.

[patdem]

3. Tourism Minister Isaac Herzog??? Hasn't someone talked about the

tourism industry and how Beruit was a BIG DRAW...called the 'Paris of the Middle East'..and that Israel was jealous of their appeal?

[Selatius]

5. Beirut was considered the "Paris of the Middle East" but then came...

the civil war, and most of the old architecture was destroyed in the fighting. To be sure, tourism revived in Beirut in the 1990s, but it was nothing like it was before the civil war, and now there is no tourism left.

[spindrifter]

6. Lebanon was looking for this year

to be a great boost to its tourism industry. Israel gets loads of tourists--both Christians and Jews. Now both countries have lost mega-amounts of money, as the tourists seem leery about visiting war zones.

[MysteryToMyself]

8. What were they thinking of?

Not a lot of foresight going on. That is the difference in having great leaders and having war mongers. They were leaving it up to the military. Cowboy diplomacy doesn't work very well.

Hezbollah has refused the cease fire until Israel leaves Lebanon.

[unhappycamper]

9. Locking.

Your thread title is inflammatory. It's always better to use the original article title. In this case: Israeli Minister Praises U.N. Draft