Ceasefire? Why?
Israel punched into southern Lebanon on Tuesday and pounded towns and villages in two other areas to push Hizbollah guerrillas back from the frontier, despite growing calls for a ceasefire.
Now why in the world would Israel agree to a ceasefire? British Intelligence service MI6 has established that Hezbollah is poised to launch a new "rain of terror" on Israel with rockets equipped with "dirty bomb" nose cones. The material is spent nuclear rods provided by Iran. Not much incentive to stop, is there, especially when Hezbollah started this by firing rockets on Israeli civilian locales and kidnapped Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid.
Most Arab and European governments have insisted an immediate halt to the fighting but Israel's closest ally, Washington, has said any ceasefire must be part of a broader deal that ends the threat to the Jewish state from Hizbollah.
In a related note, most Arab and European governments aren't dealing with the level of hostility facing Israel today. Hesbollah received another 3,000 rockets last week from Iran. A cease fire would enable Hesbollah to set up and rain terror even further south than Haifa. That would include Tel Aviv, Israel's third largest city.
Take a good look on the map. Tel Aviv is pretty far south of Haifa (both cities on the Mediterranean coast). Most countries have their embassies in Tel Aviv, so this should further highlight Hesbollah's murderous ambitions. Of course, I am sure the world would find a way to blame the Jews... Anti-Semitism is never short in supply.
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