Wonder if Hezbollah will agree to this:

[lumpy]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/92BF797F-68AA-4EEA-AD4E-E621389FB813.htm

Re.Israeli official says that they will be the "tool" that will clean Hezbollah out of Southern Lebanon to allow UN forces to move in.
Israel will continue to "clean" out Hezbollah installations and troops even after the ceasefire on Monday? I would assume that this means that the fighting against Hezbollah will continue until Hezbollah is completely wiped out. Some ceasefire.
I know some people don't 'trust' Al Jazeera, but I have concluded that they are just as trustworthy and maybe moreso, as any other news outlet.

[uppityperson]

1. We would "allow the army the time it needed" for what? (rhetorical ?)

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12582326.htm
Israel's offensive against Hizbollah guerrillas in south Lebanon is expected to end on Monday, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said on Saturday.

Livni said the offensive had continued despite a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for an end to the war because the army had requested an extension.

"We said (we would) allow the army the time it needed and I think that will be until some time on Monday," she told Channel Two television....

[Igel]

2. Cleaning out the installations won't be a problem.

That's just demolition of bunkers and emplacements. Nobody gets hurt unless something falls on them.

Unless there's armed resistance. If the IDF goes after a bunker with a bulldozer and the driver gets shot at, hey, that's a ceasefire violation.

Weaselly, ain't it? That's what comes with occupation.

[lumpy]

5. Obviously the article should be read.

The Israeli plan is to 'clean out the area of Hez fighters and weapons' even after Monday's ceasing of 'offensive' operations.

[Igel]

8. That can mean one of several things.

Some may be offensive, some may crucially relay on assumptions that they'll be defensive.

"Weapons" are frequently installations: you look for a cache and blow it up, where the offense?

[azurnoir]

3. Just who does Israel

consider to be Hezbollah? Those actively fighting or those who while not carrying a gun support Hezbollah? The problem here is if it is the former there might be a slight chance that this will work, if it is the latter, now 89% of the Lebanese people including many Christians then the fighting and killing will continue. It comes down to who will drop their guns first and I am not holding my breath for either party to.

[FlavaKreemSnak]

7. Yes people in Lebanon don't see Hezbollah the same way

I don't mean see them the same way as Israel and the USA, I mean that if you read about it before this started they were popular, I mean they are part of the government and had put in infrastructure and stuff but there were lots of Lebanese people that did not agree with the military wing but now almost all of them are in favor of anybody who will fight back against Israel. Plus more of them have started to fight back, and since anybody who does or maybe they can't personally but they are in favor of it, they automatically become Hezbollah and a terrorist, so Hezbollah has gotten lots more members just in this one month.

[lumpy]

4. Not entirely a ceasefire IMHO

"Another senior Israeli official said offensive operations would stop at 7am on Monday (0400 GMT), but troops would "be cleaning the area" of Hezbollah fighters and weapons after that.

"Cleaning the area falls under defensive operations," the Israeli official said. Such operations are permitted under the resolution.

"We are the tool that is supposed to drive Hezbollah out of the south so the UN force can move in," the official added", to quote.

Israeli defines "cleaning the area of Hez fighters and weapons" after the ceasation of "offensive operations" on Monday...as a "defensive" operation. Being they are on foreign territory I find this 'offensive'.

[leesa]

9. Don't you know? EVERYTHING Israel does is in self-defense, no

matter how offensive.

[SeaBob]

6. Israel

I must admit that in the area of "Plays well with others" israel would recieve an N