Thousands gather in Beirut to celebrate Halutz resignation - Haaretz

Last update - 23:15 17/01/2007

Thousands gather in Beirut to celebrate Halutz resignation

By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent

Thousands of Lebanese gathered in Beirut on Wednesday to celebrate the resignation of Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz by setting off fireworks and shooting in the air.

Lebanese opposition supporters in Beirut, who have been camped outside Prime Minister Fuad Siniora's office for over a month calling on his government to resign, staged the event.

Meanwhile, Halutz's resignation opened the news on television stations throughout the Arab world.

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Hezbollah representatives said his resignation was a historic event that affirmed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's claim that Israel lost in the second Lebanon war.

A Lebanese parliamentary member on behalf of Hezbollah told Al-Manar television that "the war ended as Sheikh Nasrallah said: It was a holy and strategic victory. Halutz is the first victim of the victory."

In Gaza, Hamas parliamentary member Mushir al-Misri said Halutz's resignation, combined with the police investigation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, "proves the Zionist entity is weak" and should encourage Palestinians to "carry on the resistance and Jihad."

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1.	Myopia...	21:36	\|	bat yam	17/01/07

2.	THEY GOT TO KILL ALL THESE LEADERS	21:43	\|	TR	17/01/07

3.	Halutz	21:45	\|	X-Slave in USA	17/01/07

4.	Just when you think the Lebanese are waking up	21:55	\|	Kipperraes	17/01/07

5.	ridiculous	22:02	\|	ScotGuy	17/01/07

6.	Self proclaimed victory	22:14	\|	David T.	17/01/07

7.	arab mentality	22:19	\|	naftaly k	17/01/07

8.	Hamas response???	22:24	\|	NE	17/01/07

9.	HOW STUPID CAN THEY GET, NASRALLAH!!!	22:42	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	17/01/07

10.	Love americans haha	23:02	\|	Let them rot	17/01/07

11.	Let`s Remember A Little History	23:15	\|	bill	17/01/07

12.	to number 3	23:27	\|	Massa	17/01/07

13.	X-slave, not your law and not your business	23:28	\|	Jake	17/01/07

14.	Hezbollah dead is a secret but infrastruture damage isn`t	23:31	\|	Bimmer	17/01/07

15.	#2 They are the elected leaders	23:35	\|	American Patriot	17/01/07

16.	Today celebrate, tomorrow face the music	23:36	\|	Jake	17/01/07

17.	The disasterous strategy and tactics	23:42	\|	Mark Lincoln	17/01/07

18.	Joy to the people of Lebanon.	23:43	\|	Maureen Ann	17/01/07

19.	#4 #2 #1	23:49	\|	F.Newton	17/01/07

20.	This is hilarious	23:51	\|	Gina	17/01/07

21.	#3: You are still a slave...	23:53	\|	Ben	17/01/07

22.	Maureen Ann: Your wrong, its not a blow to expansionist Israel	00:07	\|	Ben	18/01/07

23.	Who paid for the fireworks?	00:08	\|	Bimmer	18/01/07

24.	hey fake american patriot	00:15	\|	vik	18/01/07

25.	Israelis learn and Lebanese don`t	00:23	\|	Mike	18/01/07

26.	# 7	00:28	\|	Moe	18/01/07

27.	Another way to say ........	00:30	\|	Samir Salameh	18/01/07

28.	maybe Nasrallah should take his cue from this gest....	00:33	\|	zvi	18/01/07

29.	DUDE LET`s GO & PARTY....	00:41	\|	MIKE KATZ	18/01/07

30.	the logic and joy of the unenlightened...	00:44	\|	eyd	18/01/07

31.	HALUTZ`S RESIGNATION	00:46	\|	mo	18/01/07

32.	Keep your heads beneath the sand	00:57	\|	Ron	18/01/07

33.	damp squib	01:04	\|	Kym	18/01/07

34.	Well if they are celebrating the fact there will be no more	01:05	\|	Simon Mohammed	18/01/07

35.	The Arabs	01:13	\|	Danite	18/01/07

36.	Israeli mentality -- #7	02:07	\|	El_Justiciero	18/01/07

37.	Israeli mentality -- #7	02:07	\|	El_Justiciero	18/01/07

38.	dan halutz resignation	02:10	\|	Ameera	18/01/07

39.	to Danite	02:10	\|	Dave from Chicago	18/01/07

40.	to Samir: When is enough, enough?	02:22	\|	Dave from Chicago	18/01/07

41.	Samir: Don`t hold your breath; we`re not begging!	02:43	\|	Jake	18/01/07

42.	Fireworks?	02:44	\|	Yariv	18/01/07

43.	fireworks and lebanon	03:03	\|	khalid	18/01/07

44.	WHAT exactly did the Arabs win?If they had fought like men.	03:30	\|	PETERSM	18/01/07

45.	The meaning of Victory	04:06	\|	Druid	18/01/07

46.	Yayyyy!!!!	04:41	\|	Zeph	18/01/07

47.	don`t laugh at the arabs	05:01	\|	charles	18/01/07

48.	# 40 Dave from Chicago	05:05	\|	Lynn	18/01/07

49.	Samir	05:09	\|	Lynn	18/01/07

50.	# 34 Simon Mohammed	05:13	\|	Lynn	18/01/07

51.	#22Ben, watch out for us `old girls.`	05:28	\|	Maureen Ann	18/01/07

52.	to Lynn #48	05:39	\|	Dave from Chicago	18/01/07

53.	to Druid	05:45	\|	Dave from Chicago	18/01/07

54.	arabs mentality...........hmmmm.	06:10	\|	maria	18/01/07

55.	LYNN WHAT WAS THE ANSWER	06:31	\|	TOBIA	18/01/07

56.	Maureen ANN	06:45	\|	TOBIA	18/01/07

57.	CHARLES YOU HAVE TO LAUGH	06:57	\|	TOBIA	18/01/07

58.	CHARLES YOU HAVE TO LAUGH	06:57	\|	TOBIA	18/01/07

59.	Booo!	07:04	\|	Zeph	18/01/07

60.	SINIORA IS THE NEXT	07:19	\|	indrajaya	18/01/07

61.	To Dave from Chicago	10:04	\|	Samir Salameh	18/01/07

62.	Living in denial	12:58	\|	lola	18/01/07

63.	51: Maureen "fed up" with logic and facts	15:27	\|	David Teich	18/01/07