IDF completes withdrawal from south Lebanon

Rob I am an American Lebanese and I know better then that lol, siniora is a PM (prime minister), PM is not elected , PM gets appointed FYI :) the parleiment is elected. Just

A real Jamaican man will be sitting drinking pina colada and listening to Bob in place of giving his opinion on ...the middle east affairs, or maybe after a few joints you saw sharply the reality of the the francosinorussian plot, change ur dealer Man.

Suddenly u want others to apply international resolutions and laws, it s relevant for your neighbours but not for your country,which is a kind of.....Gift from G'd that is to say not concerned by secular law.. And if u believe that your soldiers were liberators, we might one day or another liberate you too, with a great pleasure, count on my determination Joseph.

When is a cease fire resolution not a cease fire resolution?. Simple. When kofi Annan puts it together with the UN. The lebanese , hiozbullah are not firing shots across the boirder, but they are not foloowing the sapirit and intent of the resolution. Hizbullah is re-arming, Lebanese government does nothing to stop Hizbullah re arming, wont permit any UN troops to interupt or interfere with Hizbullah, all the while halting the Israeli forces who again went after hizbullah after they went across the border again. So why bother, start the war back up. this time do it right

As a Lebanese-Canadian I have unique view of what is happening in Lebanon.The Lebanese people should rise agains Hezbollah. Siniora is the elected leader of the people and should act to assert his authority by doing what is best for Lebanon - disarming and abolishment of Hezbollah. Hezbollah only represents extremists among the Shiites, mostly the South. Many moderate Shiites, Maronites, Druze, Armenians hate Hezbollah and want it destroyed. They should unite and kick these Iranian agents out of Lebanon. Hezbollah représente seulement des extrémistes parmi les Chiites, surtout le Sud. Beaucoup de Shiites modérés, Maronites, Druze, les Arméniens détestent Hezbollah et le veulent détruit. Ils devraient unir et renvoyer ces agents Iraniens du Liban.

"IDF should stay in lebanon as liberator against" If that is the case, then make sure they have a fresh supply of body bags.... Lots of body bags. IDF does not have what it takes to win a battle against the couragous fighters of the Resistance. And if Nasrallah is ever harmed ( stupid suggestion by a fat,dumb and happy Ben Eliezer), then only use your imagination as to what would the results be.... "The gang who can't shoot straight" is an applicable term to the current israeli adminstration.

As usual the Mighty IDF is withdrawing from Lebanon because they know Hizballah will attack them eventually, so it is better they go back and hide in occupied Palastine. They proved they are no match for Hizballah, even with their NEOCON friends, Mr BOOOSH, the saudis, Mubarak, Shorty king abdallah, and their Lebanese dummies Mr. Horrible Hariri. Junballat. GAGA, and traitor Sineora. They can only dream that they can break down the resistance.

I expected them to at least be in legitimate hands (Lebanon army) right after the so called "cease fire". If the soldiers are not also home by Yom Kippur then Olmert is a capitulator. The Egyptians have given up on dealing with Hamas, so why are we still negotiating with them (via the Qataris?)

As Nasrallah said we will cut the hands of anyone try to disarm Hezbollah. Allah yehmihoun ya rab. God bless Hezboallah. Down with the Maronties, the Traitors.

Salut Bernard :-)) Mes Respects

hmm maybe we should charge leb for the cluster bombs we left.

Rather than cry crocodile tears Fouad Siniora should fullfil his obligation to the Lebanese people by disarming Hezbollah and ensuring Lebanon is free of that scum. Lebanon deserves better than to be a puppet for Syrian and Iran. The Christians and Druze of Lebanon should unite with other moderates and demand disarming of Hezbollah by the UNIFIL and Lebanese Army. That's the only way to ensure peace in Lebanon. We don't need them to provoke another war.

So far the Lebanese and the UNIFIL forces have failed in their main duty - disarming Hezbollah. If they continue to ignore their responsiblity Israel has every right to ensure its safety by going after Hezbollah terrorists everywhere, from Sidon to Tyre and from Beirut to Bekaa.

"imagine a rouge milita operating in the border areas of isreal and attacking neighboring countries." Why imagine - we've just seen the IDF doing it in Lebanon! They're still doing it in Gaza and the West Bank!

Maybe "targetted assassination" of Jacques Chirac will calm things down. The "sino-soviet allies" are a problem. Better take out Putin and Hu and their potential successors at the same time? Makes you wonder about Olof Palme, doesn't it?

C ya, chao, adieu, asta luego, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

This was clear to everyone the day the so-called “cease-fire” was declared. What else would you expect from the French? And who is to blame? All those who were fool(ed) enough to elect Olmert and his troika into power. The government is silent about its disastrous failures and in this respect Olmert is an ally of Nazrullah who is hiding his failures, too. Two comrades united in big flops. It appears that Nazrullah cannot be dismissed. But Olmert CAN, it is up to you to do it!

with the UN resolution from Israel perspective. IDF can easily monitor South Lebanon and the frontier with Syria. If the pathetic UN force is not doing its job then ISRAEL, with proves, can just drop a few bombs wherever they are needed!...and the frenchies will have the pictures of Hezbollah smuggling or rearming and will have to shut up their big mouths!

matter of time before the French, not the French government, realize that they will have to get involved and stop kissing everybody butts!! They can not be friend of the devil and God at the same time for too long....double-standadrs have a limit! But I am afraid, like pretty much everybody else, that will not happened until they suffer an attack like London, Bali, Madrid or NY?.sad, VERY SAD !

Israel wont ever win this war by staying 2 or 3 days more in Lebanon. Isarel has to withdraw without achieving its war goals: -Cant get the 2 captured soldiers. -Cant disarm Hezbollah. -Cant destroy their missiles. -Cant liquidate Nasrallah.

When Israel is planing to build walls with Lebanon ? This would be a great move !!! I know, it is a stupid question.. Israel know how to destroy not how to build !!!!

Hezbollah by having IDF redoploying ? or are you using UN 1701 as excuse to divert attention fron Iran racing to get the nuke Iran sponsoring war crime persia junior nassarallah May be you should read today report of Iran khomeini and the nuke about his letter addressed to Iranian officers during Iran-Iraq war. Happy ramadan

Do not take offense here, but the more i read the more it looks like Israeli forces are being forced out of Lebanon. This is another defeat ontop of the failure to evenbend Hizb...

what western country would allow a 'civilians' to freely walk around in public with rocket launchers and machine guns?? not to mention store rockets in private homes. hez said they have 20k rockets. how does siniora repond to this?? does he sent out his so called military to find and destory these rockets? no, he does nothing which is the same as supporting terrorsts. imagine a rouge milita operating in the border areas of isreal and attacking neighboring countries. how would siniora and abbas respond to that?

NO military storehouse in the world is unguarded except a border Kibbutz in Israel. They just walked in and made off with several TRUCKLOADS of weapons. Given Israels very tight security DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT HAPPENED? If it did, Who lost their job over it? The French tanks stopped them because there was NO reason for 4 Israeli tanks to enter deeper into Lebanon. NO discussion in Israel as to who was at fault in this matter because it never happened.

Israel cannot stay in Lebanon or THEY will be violating the cease fire! If you are so keen on implementing UN resolutions, petition your govt to implement 242 and 338. Set an example on resolution implementation. The IDF should stay in Lebanon? The IDF is BARELY over the border and serves NO useful military purpose for them to stay in Lebanon. AND you can avoid another embarassing military "backdown" with the French.

Can you even begin to imagine world reaction to an IDF cluster bombing of the 800,000 Hizballah supporters at the victory speech in attempt to silence Nazarallah?

reading your text, it seems Europe and bthe rest of the world is worst than Hizbollah... so bomb them to smithereens

Now the lebanese calling on Nasralah a great hero, he is Salah Addin 2 he is going to arrive in Jerusalem. The leb shiat, the leb marooni, the leb sunni loves him more than before, Everyday they feel big winners. Don't tell me the leb Maroonis loves jews, they don't, they only loves seats in the government and to control power.

It is now known that the french prevented the IDF pursuit of Hezbullah terrorists infiltrated Israel and who stole Israeli arms. French jets also patroled skies to protect Nasrallah during his speech. The EU-UN is doing nothing to prevent the lebanon-hexbullah from rearming and reoccupoying southern lebanon. The EU intransigence and support of terrorism in Iraq and the Israeli mideast situations have prolonged the conflict in both cases. Bush is not the problem, it is mainly chirac and the french along with their sino soviet allies.

I never thought I'd ever find myself agreeing with the Syrians but they were right to take over that puny pathetic Lebanese nation after that 15 year needless and pointless civil war. Lebanon obviously can't take care of themselves - they're either killing each other in civil wars or allowing foreign (in the latest case Iranian) proxy militias to fight their own wars using Lebanon as their battlefield, while the Lebanese government and army stand there picking their butts, doing nothing!! They always scream and cry about Israel's invasion in 1982 but that was because Lebanon allowed the PLO to carry out terrorist attacks from their territory! If they would have thrown the PLO out like Jordan did, Israel never would have invaded. Lebanese cowardice in allowing the PLO and then hezzy to operate in their country is the cause of all their problems. They won't admit it though. Syria should put Lebanon out of its misery and take it over.

Wisdom for a Peacefull Lebanon with neighboring Israel brings you back to the reality check of the past and today for the Siniora's gov't allegiance to the 22 arab-league cause , while other states such as turkia or ... don't even need peace treaty to good relations with Israel . While you may feel or think for yourself like karim or khalid or lebanese or adel or ibrahim or messaoud or joe...ect...to promote Iran-syria-hezbollah political statements , you folks couldn't be the majority for you leave no hope for peace or at least a quieter ME , as if you knew anything else better

The only reason for this war was because the woosy Lebanese allowed Iran's proxy militia terrorists free reign in the south while the Lebanese army followed hezzy's orders and stayed out. In fact, now that Lebanese troops are FINALLY in the south of THEIR OWN COUNTRY, it's the first time since the 80's!! That's like someone renting out part of their house to someone and letting that person make all the household decisions!! But of course the Lebanese stick their heads in the sand and blame Israel for everything. But it's human nature not to blame yourself. Earlier the pathetic Lebanese fought some useless civil war for 15 years after which they allow the Syrians to invade and run their country as if it was a Syrian province! They scream and cry they were powerless to throw the Syrians out but we all saw last year what a lie that was - after the Syrians assassinaed Hariri they DID in fact expel the Syians. Why didn't they do that 10 years ago? Lebanon is a pathetic joke of a country.

Apparently it needs to reiterated but Israel wasn't in Lebanon for 6 years and STILL it gets attacked - the first time a mere weeks after the pullout. But hey, who cares about reality when you can make it up.

We'll handle our internal affairs, thank you very much. Sweet to offer the IDF as a "protector", though. Tell you what, Joseph: I'm a Christian. It'll be a cold day in hell before I ever consider the IDF as my "protectors". I know people who died because of Israel's bombardment. Christians, Joseph. So, thanks, but no thanks. You understand.

Well NOW we shall see IF Israel pulls out by Sunday or IF at all. Israel should KNOW that if they werent in Lebanon there would be NO violence, and NO need for peace keepers. Both parties should stay on their side of the border and leave the other alone. Do the right thing and there wont be any problems.. Stop sending soldiers over the borders and promoting the violence. Respect for all people is the KEY

Iran-Syria-Hezbollah occupiers of lebanon who are using lebanon as a strategic area for terror war attrition against Israel to the detriment of incapable lebanese therefor dependant and not sovereign who consequently of that terror interference sees israel as ennemy rather than friendly usefull neighbor. IDF should stay in lebanon To make sure that UN 1701 is fully implemented to Israel satisfaction indirectly lebanese benefactor. So not to repeat the brush off of UN Annan 1559 or the brush off of leb gov't to UN 1701 as is now . Israel learnt from the past and this very recent past that leb gov't-hezbollah-unifil are all cooperating over and over to israel detriment that led to UN 1701 since UN 1559 was totaly rejected and not implemented. IDF should stay in lebanon Better chance for the soldiers to come back home To take down nassarallah no matter who dares to replaces him. The IDF redeployement to Israel borders at this juncture means a later war round deadlier to lebanon