***Israel kebakaran jenggot. Mau masuk ke Lebanon Selatan, takut tidak bisa keluar. Hizbullah bisa tahan perang jangka panjang, Israel tidak bisa.
***Dalam keadaan sulit sekarang ini, genjatan senjata akan menjadikan Hizbullah lebih dihormati kaum Muslim. Israel pusing, AS lebih pusing lagi. Progam politik AS gagal di-mana2, sudah waktunya si Rice dicopot... Hezbollah rockets rain down on Israel Lin Noueihed | Beirut, Lebanon 28 July 2006 06:00 Hezbollah fired scores of rockets into Israel on Friday, including two that the Lebanese guerrilla group said were new long-range missiles, in a barrage that wounded at least six people, police said. The longer-range rockets landed in an open area near the town of Afula, which is about 50km from the Lebanese border. It matched the furthest distance that Hezbollah rockets have landed inside Israel since the conflict began on July 12. Hezbollah said it had fired a "Khaibar 1" rocket at Afula, apparently a new type of armament. Israeli media reported one of the rockets carried 100kg of explosives in its warhead. The remains were taken away for investigation. Israeli security sources confirmed that it appeared a new type of rocket had been fired at the country, but provided no further details. Hezbollah is believed to have been supplied with armaments by Iran and Syria. It has said it has about 13 000 rockets in its arsenal, with ranges of up to 100km. At least 90 rockets were fired into Israel on Friday, police said, with at least six towns in the north struck. A local ambulance station was hit by one of the rockets in the town of Safed but no injuries were caused, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said. The towns of Kiryat Shemona, Nahariya, Rosh Pina and Karmiel were also hit. Hezbollah has fired more than 1 500 rockets into Israel since the conflict erupted following a cross-border raid into Israel by the Shi'ite militia. Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has vowed to take the war deeper into Israel, suggesting there could be strikes south of the city of Haifa. Such use of longer-range missiles would likely trigger massive Israeli retaliation. Meanwhile, intense Israeli bombardment killed 13 people in Lebanon on Friday, while United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she would return to the region only when the time was right for a lasting solution to the crisis. Warplanes repeatedly bombed hill villages near the southern port of Tyre and hundreds of artillery rounds crashed across the border from Israel, killing 10 people, including a Jordanian. Three people died in air strikes in the eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanese security sources said. Fighting erupted near the southern town of Bint Jbeil and the nearby border village of Maroun al-Ras when Hezbollah fighters attacked Israeli positions in the area, they said. The Israeli army, which lost nine soldiers in clashes in the same region on Wednesday, believes it has killed at least 200 Hezbollah fighters in the 17-day-old war, an Israeli military source said. Hezbollah has acknowledged 31 dead in its ranks. Rice, who had been due to end a visit to Malaysia on Friday, delayed her departure without saying why. Her change of plan suggested there had been no breakthrough in efforts to halt a conflict that has killed 458 people in Lebanon and 51 Israelis. "I am going to return to the Middle East. The question is when is it right for me to return to the Middle East," she said. France called again for the United Nations to demand an immediate ceasefire. But UN Middle East envoy Terje Roed-Larsen told France's Le Figaro it would be hard to clinch a truce without involving Hezbollah's allies Iran and Syria, both opposed to Washington. The pounding of Lebanese villages, where civilians remain trapped, resumed a day after Israeli leaders opted to intensify air raids and ground forays, rather than invade Lebanon. Heavy fighting and the destruction of roads in the south have created terrifying conditions for civilians, and a UN official said lack of clean water posed a fresh threat. Hundreds of people fled the Shi'ite border village of Aita al-Shaab to take refuge in the nearby Christian town of Rmeish, where some were reduced to drinking water from farm pools. "We are with the resistance," Fatmeh Srour told Reuters. "But we need supplies to remain steadfast. My three-month-old baby hasn't eaten for two days because there's no baby milk." Aid workers said it was impossible to get medical supplies and food safely to isolated villages due to Israeli bombing. "This talk of a humanitarian corridor should not mask the real situation," said Christopher Stokes, director of operations for Médécins Sans Frontières, Belgium. "It's a kind of humanitarian alibi because in effect there is no real humanitarian access in the south. The international community is deluding itself, if it believes there is." "Outrageous" Rice came to Kuala Lumpur after a trip to Lebanon and Israel earlier in the week and a one-day conference in Rome that stopped short of calling for the violence to stop straightaway. A US State Department official described as "outrageous" the view expressed by Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon that the Rome talks had given Israel a green light to bomb Lebanon. Israel has taken Washington's refusal to demand an immediate ceasefire as tacit permission to pursue an onslaught aimed at crippling Hezbollah guerrillas who set off the conflict by seizing two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12. Hundreds of civilian casualties and a humanitarian crisis in Lebanon have fuelled world pressure for an instant ceasefire. Washington insists on finding a durable solution first -- one that eliminates Hezbollah's capacity to menace Israel. US President George Bush will hear a plea for a speedy UN resolution on Lebanon and dispatch of a peacekeeping force when he meets British Prime Minister Tony Blair later on Friday. "We do need to step up a gear, we want to increase the urgency, the pace of diplomacy," said a spokesperson for Blair. Blair, who has echoed Bush's line on Lebanon so far, is under domestic pressure to change tack and join Arab and European nations in demanding that the war stop now. French President Jacques Chirac pushed again for a UN Security Council resolution that would show "the international community's commitment to an immediate ceasefire". The conflict has largely overshadowed fighting in the Gaza Strip, where Israel launched an offensive a month ago when Palestinian militants captured a soldier in a cross-border raid. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Washington had done too little to stop Israeli assaults that had gone "way too far". -- Reuters http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=279117&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/ Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
