Pola pikiran ialah melemahkan Hisbullah sebagai negara dalam negara Libanon dan tidak menganggu Israel dengan mengirim roket atau mortir. Dalam konflik sekarang ini kelihatannya Hisbullah tidak mendapat dukungan dari Mesir, Jordania dan Arab Saudia dan oleh karena itu mereka diam. Alasan yang mungkin membuat negeri-negeri tsb berbuat demikian ialah Hisbullah didukung oleh Iran, jadi latar belakang agama aliran "Shia" juga adalah juga salah satu faktor.
Hisbullah mempunyai tentara lebih kuat dari tentara Libanon. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Satrio Arismunandar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 11:53 AM Subject: Re: [ppiindia] Rice Outlines Proposal to Deploy Force In Lebanon > 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 > > > > *************************************************************************** > Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia > yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality & Shared Destiny. > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia > *************************************************************************** > __________________________________________________________________________ > Mohon Perhatian: > > 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) > 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. > 3. Reading only, http://dear.to/ppi > 4. 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