Saya pikir Amerika betul-betul gila, menolak menghentikan serangan ketika terbukti sebagian besar korban tewas di Lebanon adalah warga sipil. Dan jumlah pengungsi 750.000 dari jumlah penduduk 4 juta. Artinya, sekitar 20 % populasi.
--- Ambon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/24/AR2006072400050.html?referrer=email > > > Rice Outlines Proposal to Deploy Force In Lebanon > Plan for Buffer Zone on Border Greeted Skeptically > in Beirut > > By Robin Wright and Scott Wilson > Washington Post Staff Writers > Tuesday, July 25, 2006; Page A01 > > > > BEIRUT, July 24 -- On an unannounced trip to ravaged > Beirut, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice outlined > a plan Monday to deploy an international force, > possibly led by NATO, in a buffer zone just inside > Lebanon for 60 to 90 days, after which it would > expand its mission to help the Lebanese army regain > control of the south, Lebanese and U.S. officials > said. > > The force would also help train the army, which > according to U.S. officials now has neither the will > nor the means to disarm Hezbollah, Lebanon's last > private militia. > > But Rice's plan to end the conflict, prop up the > Lebanese government and weaken Hezbollah was greeted > with skepticism by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, as > well as Lebanon's top elected Shiite official and > other leaders. Siniora and the speaker of > parliament, Nabih Berri, a Shiite with close ties to > Hezbollah, warned that Hezbollah was unlikely to > accept any foreign military presence in its > traditional stronghold in heavily Shiite southern > Lebanon. Hezbollah has already rejected calls to > disarm. > > Rice released her proposal, the first major U.S. > diplomatic move since the crisis began, as Israeli > tanks and troops pushed about a half-mile farther > inside south Lebanon on Monday. They met stiff > resistance from entrenched Hezbollah fighters around > the town of Bint Jbeil, which is roughly two miles > inside the border. Meanwhile, Hezbollah fired 80 > rockets into northern Israel, wounding more than 20 > civilians, two of them seriously, according to > Israeli military officials. > > Two Israeli soldiers were killed and 14 others were > wounded in the fighting. Israeli military officials > said they are attempting to secure a roughly > 15-square-mile region that they describe as a center > of Hezbollah operations. Hezbollah has killed 24 > Israeli soldiers and 17 civilians since the crisis > broke out 13 days ago. More than 60 soldiers have > been wounded. > > The Israeli air force said it struck about 70 > Hezbollah targets across Lebanon Monday. Israeli > strikes have killed at least 384 Lebanese, the vast > majority of them civilians, during the crisis, the > Associated Press reported. The news service also > reported that the United Nations said four U.N. > peacekeepers were wounded Monday, one of them > seriously, in south Lebanon. > > [Early Tuesday, the Associated Press reported, an > Israeli missile struck a house in the southern > Lebanon town of Nabatiyeh, killing seven people and > wounding one, hospital and security officials said.] > > In Beirut, U.S. officials said that Siniora promised > to look more fully at Rice's plan and explore it > with others in his government, chosen in elections > last year. "He was receptive to our ideas. He gave > us enough to keep going. There were no > show-stoppers," said a U.S. official traveling with > Rice. "We came away convinced that Siniora and the > U.S. are on the same page, working toward the same > ends." > > But U.S. officials also conceded that Lebanon's weak > government also faces its own heavy lifting. After > flying in by military helicopter from Cyprus, Rice > praised Siniora for his "courage and steadfastness." > > On the first leg of her diplomatic effort, Rice > focused heavily on humanitarian issues. She > announced that the U.S. government is pledging $30 > million in aid as part of a new international drive > to raise $150 million for Lebanon. The U.S. aid will > come largely in the form of goods, including 100,000 > medical kits, 20,000 blankets and 2,000 plastic > sheets that the U.S. military will begin delivering > Tuesday. > > But Siniora pressed Rice for an immediate > cease-fire. The United States is coming under > growing Arab and European pressure because of the > humanitarian crisis, with about 750,000 displaced > people in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. > > The sequence of next steps is also becoming an > issue, U.S. officials said. Arab demands have > focused on first achieving an immediate cease-fire, > before considering other measures such as > arrangements to disarm Hezbollah and release two > Israeli soldiers taken captive by Hezbollah on July > 12 in an incident that sparked the crisis. The Bush > administration has backed Israel's campaign to > cripple the Shiite militia, which has fired more > than 1,000 rockets into Israel, and the United > States and Israel are demanding the immediate > release of the Israeli soldiers. > > Rice told Berri that she was "deeply concerned" > about the Lebanese and "what they are enduring." > President Bush had personally asked her to make > Lebanon the first stop of her Middle East mission, > she said. But she also told Berri, whose mainstream > Shiite Amal party has worked politically with > Hezbollah, that "the situation on the border cannot > return to what it was before July 12." > > After her five-hour visit under heavy guard through > a Beirut that was suddenly quiet, Rice flew back to > Cyprus, then on to Israel, where she had a working > dinner with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. > > On the battlefield, Israeli soldiers, encountering a > seasoned Hezbollah guerrilla force, say they have > killed dozens of gunmen fighting with guided > anti-tank missiles, mortars and small arms from > houses, tunnels and bunkers in the past few days. > > "They're in the forests and inside hiding places in > town. They hide in holes in the ground," said Lt. > Shahar Mintz, 20, who serves in a tank battalion > operating inside Lebanon. "They have so many places > to hide from the airstrikes, so we have to send in > the infantry. It can be dangerous." > > Mintz spoke from Avivim, an Israeli farming > community a half-mile from the hilltop Lebanese town > of Maroun al-Ras, where Israel's ground operation > has focused in recent days. Busloads of soldiers > mustered in the mostly abandoned town, painting > their faces green and black before walking into > Lebanon. > > Columns of four to five tanks waited to be sent > across the border. At least a dozen ambulances > awaited the wounded. Israeli unmanned drone aircraft > buzzed overhead, and a steady pounding of air and > artillery strikes sounded throughout the day, > leaving Maroun al-Ras shrouded in a brown-gray fog > of smoke and dust. > > On Israel's second front, the Gaza Strip, where the > governing Hamas movement's military wing and two > smaller armed groups continue holding an Israeli > soldier captured in a June 25 raid on an army post > just outside Gaza, at least six Palestinians died in > Israeli artillery strikes near the town of Beit > Lahiya. Palestinian hospital officials said the dead > included a 50-year-old woman, her 11-year-old > grandson and a 4-year-old girl. > > An Israeli army spokeswoman said 20 rockets were > launched from Gaza in the last two days, including > eight on Monday from the area that Israeli forces > were targeting. In the incident that killed the > girl, the spokeswoman said Israeli forces were not > aiming at residential buildings "but one of our > shells misfired, and it hit closer to the civilian > population than it was aimed." > > The military was also investigating the crash of an > Apache Longbow helicopter in Israel's northern > Galilee region that had been flying support > operations for troops on the edge of Bint Jbeil. > Israeli military officials said two crew members > died in the crash. > > While leaving open the possibility the helicopter > could have been damaged by Hezbollah ground fire, > Israeli military officials said it was more likely > that a technical malfunction caused the crash, the > second by a U.S.-made Apache here in the past week. > > "This battle against Hezbollah is going to last," > Avi Dichter, Israel's public security minister, told > a small group of reporters in Jerusalem. "We're not > in any hurry." > > But Dichter also acknowledged that the military > operation would likely make way for diplomacy in the > coming days. > > === message truncated === __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SktRrD/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. 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