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Condoleezza Rice in Beirut

4:23 am on Monday, July 24, 2006

CNN.com

Before her arrival in Lebanon on Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the need for a cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah guerrillas is “urgent,” but only when the conditions are right.Rice spoke with reporters en route to the Middle East, where she’s expected to meet with Israeli and Lebanese officials Monday.

“We believe that a cease-fire is urgent,” Rice told reporters on a flight from Washington to a refueling stop in Ireland. “It is important, however, to have conditions that will make it sustainable.”

“The really important thing here is that whatever we do has to contribute to Lebanon’s regaining sovereignty over all its territory,” said Rice.

“It’s just very important that we work urgently, but that we also work in a way that is going to push this forward, not backwards.”

It seems clear to me that Rice’s message to Lebanon is that we can work for a cease fire, but only if you cooperate with the U.S. and/or Israel in getting Hezbollah out of Lebanon (as an armed force at the least.)
That has always seemed to me to be the best option in dealing with this crisis but it may be a difficult thing for the Lebanese Government to do, not only from a military perspective, but from a political one as well.

5 Comments »

Comment by Carm Caruana

July 24, 2006 @ 4:23 pm

I feel that Ms. Rice should get her head out of the sand and see the regional conflict for what it really is (although, in her heart, she already knows this). It seems more and more to me that Israel is the aggressor in this war. The leaders of this nation use the excuse of wanting the kidnapped soldiers for starting their terror attacks on the population of Labanon. They say that they only wish to target Hezbollah forces, but they know well enough that most of the damage has been on the people of Labanon, especially the Muslim population. They wish to punish these people for voting for and aiding Hezbollah leaders. According to Israel, this should not be happening……..If they take sides with Hezbollah, then they should be punished!

Ms. Rice, has already shown her colours. She does not come to the region with solutions, rather with altimatums..to the Arab people. Why she was even invited to visit Labanon is beyond my understanding…She will not be fair………has the Bush Administration ever been fair!!

Comment by Dave Justus

July 24, 2006 @ 8:16 pm

Certainly most of the damage has been to the people of Lebanon, especially Muslims. Of course the Hezbollah forces are Muslim people of Lebanon, so even if every death Israel caused in the conflict was a Hezbollah fighter that statement would be true.

I find your analysis that Israel is the agressor interesting given that even Saudi Arabia and Egypt have publically stated that in their view Hezbollah is the agressor here and is purposefully causing a dangerous instability in the region. How do you come to the conclusion that Hezbollah entering Israel and kidnapping Israeli soldiers is an act of Israeli agression? How do you come to the conclusion that Hezbollah building rockets filled with ball bearings and firing them at Israeli population centers displays Israeli disregard for civilian casualties. Unlike Hezbollah, Israel doesn’t put its military assets in civilian areas.

I disagree with some of the tactics Israel has taken in this conflict, I think there are more effective ways. However, I agree with the goal: the removal of Hezbollah as an armed force from Lebanon and a lot of Lebanese, even Lebanese Muslims, share that goal. I wonder why you do not.

Comment by probligo

July 25, 2006 @ 3:19 pm

Dave, how much do think that Israel’s “fly over” of the Presidential palace in Syria might have contributed to the actions by Hezbollah.

After all the connection between the two “are well proven”. It was “a very aggressive act” (words from the US administration as I recall), and one which might be expected to engender some response.

On your last point - armed Hezbollah -

Do you think that Lebanon and more particularly the Palestinians should have the right to initially defend and subsequently attempt to regain their own territory from Israeli occupation?

I am not taking sides here but I AM getting mightly p/o’d by the politically correct rationalisations and propaganda being used to favour Israel against all others.

I agree with you - the people in the middle are the ones who need help, support and sympathy.

Comment by Dave Justus

July 26, 2006 @ 4:58 am

I don’t know. I keep hearing from some on the left that the idea that Syria and/or Iran could have anything to do with Hezbollah kidnapping soldiers is right wing neo-con wacky thinking. My guess would be though that even from the perspective that Hezbollah is closely allied with Iran and Syria, I don’t think that Syria is the source of this. My guess is that it is partially due to events in Gaza, and partially due to events in Iran.

As for an armed Hezbollah, I don’t see how that has anything to do with the right of Lebanon or Palestinians to defend themselves. Hezbollah is not Palestinians, nor is it the Lebanese Army. It has a stated goal as the destruction of Israel.

I want Hezbollah disarmed more of Lebanon’s sake than for Israels. Israel can deal with an armed Hezbollah in a variety of ways, as they are currently demonstrating, however Hezbollah is almost certainly more powerful militarily than the Lebanese army and the is a poison for the nations emerging democracy. I have no problems with a disarmed Hezbollah participating in Lebanese political life, although I certainly would not agree with the ‘destruction of Israel’ part of their political platform.

I also find your characterization that the propaganda and rationalizations out there is being used to favor Israel above all others to be quite naive. From what I can tell, Israel is held to a higher standard of conduct than anyone else. Certainly they are expected to behave in a different manner than Hezbollah does.

As an example of this, imagine the outcry if Israel developed a new weapon, such as a rocket filled with ball bearings, obviously designed to inflict as many civilian casualties as possible. Imagine if Israel fired hundreds of poorly guided rockets at Lebanese civilian areas. Imagine even if Israel chose to protect its military assetts by using civilian human sheilds. If any of those things were the case, I would join those who decry Israel for commiting war crimes. From what I can tell though, it is not Israel that is behaving in this manner.

Comment by kalki gaur

July 30, 2006 @ 4:56 am

(1) CONDI RICE IS THE MOST TALENTED WOMEN ON THE PLANET EARTH TODAY
Ms. Condoleezza Rice the secretary of state for the most powerful country in the world. She is without doubt one of the brightest, most talented women on the planet earth, who just happens to be black. Her ancestors were brought to the United States as slaves, when Arab Muslim Slave harvesters that captured and destroyed their ancestral villages and sold the blacks slave cargo to white Christian slave ship owners on West coast of Africa. Semite Arab Muslims conquered Black lands and sold blacks to white Christians and took over the black lands of Mediterranean North Africa and Africa South of Sahara. East European and Russian Jews immigrants to USA similarly sidelined Black leadership of the Democratic Party especially in New York.
(2) Jewish lobby led by Kissinger-Albright-Clinton conspiring to sabotage the Bush Administration’s wise policy of petro-imperialism in Iran, by playing the wild Israeli card in diplomacy. Jewish lobby is very unhappy that black woman Secretary Condoleezza Rice like her predecessor Secretary Colin Powell has replaced Ashkenazim foreign policy put into place by secretaries Kissinger, Brzezinski and Albright that purposely sidelined pro-WASP American national interests to promote the hidden agenda of pro-Papacy Judeo-Christian religious right conservative conspiracy.
(3) Geopolitical Doctrine of Secretary Rice states that the national interests of the United States should be defined to promote the civilization interests of Reformed Christianity and American civilization and economic interests of the Yankee petro-colonialism. The Christian religious right conservative conspiracy and President Jimmy Carter installed Ayatollah Khomeini and ultra-conservative theocracy in Iran replacing modern secular Pahlevi Monarchy. The Kissinger-Albright-Clinton conspiracy seeks to sabotage Yankee invasions of Iran to perpetuate the Theocracy in Iran.
(4) The artificial states of Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan were created by British and American secret services on grounds of religion simply to control the Islamic world and the oil reserves of the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Israel is important for Protestant USA not because it is Jewish State, but because it crucial for Yankee domination of Middle Eastern oil and gas reserves for Yankee Petro-Colonialism. It means that Israel must not do anything that might jeopardize the geopolitical interests of Yankee Petro-Colonialism. In the event Israel becomes a liability for Yankee petro-colonialism than the White House should not mind throwing the baby Israel along with the towel to the wolves.
(5) If Israeli invasions of Lebanon were a Yankee ploy to tempt Iran to invade Israel to justify Yankee invasions of Iran for establishing petro-colonial empire in Iran, then this Israeli invasion of Lebanon makes sense and American must support it as a diplomacy of deception. However, if Israeli invasion of Lebanon are part of an Ashkenazim Kissinger-Albright Conspiracy to discredit black woman secretary of state Dr. Condoleezza Rice then the White House should use the Big Stick to keep Israel in line.
(6) It is deplorable that Israel’s Lebanese attacks causing diversion to Yankee war on Islamic terrorism and war on Iranian theocracy and war on Islamic nukes. It was plain stupid on the part of Israel to vacate Southern Lebanon after decades of Israeli occupation in 2002, when the United States had declared war on Islamic terrorism after September 11, 2001 attacks, and it might have been part of a Kissinger-Albright plot to undermine Bush’s wars for petro-colonialism and war on Islamic terrorism.
(7) Christian enemies of the United States had published Prophets Cartoon to sabotage earlier sanctions on Iran. The Israeli actions in Lebanon are simply part of a conspiracy hatched by Jewish insiders and Kissinger-Albright group to discredit black woman Secretary Rice. No one can accuse blacks born of slaves to have any extra-territorial loyalties or loyalty to any foreign potentate or any foreign nation. It stands to reason that the geopolitical assessment of Secretary Rice regarding national interests of the United States are more profound and more logical than the rival assessment of US national interests defined by former secretaries Kissinger, Brzezinski and Albright.
(8) Former speaker professor Newt Gingrich wisely declared that World War Three has started. The goal of every world power in the World War Three shall be to invade, occupy and colonize leading OPEC oil and gas producers. The World War Three is not a war among world powers, but a war waged by world powers to invade and colonize OPEC oil producers. The Israeli attacks on secular liberal Lebanon threatens the implicit agreement among top world powers to bring leading OPEC nations under the colonial occupation of the world powers in the first quarter of the 21st Century. The purpose of the World War Three is to Partition OPEC nations into spheres of influence of colonial empires led by Six world powers, namely, USA, India, China, Russia, European Union and Japan. The 21st Century shall resemble the colonial 19th Century because of the fight for the oil and gas reserves. United States must invade neither secular liberal Lebanon nor secular liberal Syria, as it would be a foolish diversion from Yankee war on Islamic terrorism and war for petro-colonialism. Israel is important only so long as it helps create sustain and establish Yankee petro-colonial empire in the Middle East.
(9) It is in the national of interest of the United States during second Bush administration, when the United States enjoyed the unchallenged hegemony and military preponderance as the sole super power. Any delay in the start of the World War Three, beyond 2008 would only harm the national interests of the United States. The Allied Powers led by United States, India and Britain guaranteed to win the World War Three.
(10) The World War Three shall be fought for Middle East Oil. Had Hitler attacked Syria and Iraq instead of Libya and Africa or had invaded Iran after the conquest of Stalingrad rather than Moscow, Hitler might have won the World War II.
Diplomat Kalki Gaur
http://360.yahoo.com/diplomacyofcivilizations
diplomatkalkigaur@yahoo.com

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