With a joint US-France UN Security Council Resolution being acheived, which most observers have deemed impossible for Israel to reject, or a minor variation thereof, let us tally the total gains made by Israel after four weeks which saw an entire country destroyed, hundreds of thousands of displaced refugees, close to a 1,000 Lebanese citizens, half being children, massacred, and as matter of balance, let us not forget the 123-odd Israelis also killed.
Under the terms of the draft resolution, UNIFIL would be bolstered and occupy within 10 days a 13-mile buffer zone, displacing all IDF forces, under what is termed a "Chapter 6" mandate under the UN Charter, being in effect a peace-keeping versus a peace-enforcing entity.
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There is no disarmament of Hezbollah.
There is no return of any "kidnapped" or captured soldiers.
Pray tell, what has Israel succeeded in this latest and most brutual collective punishment of the people of Lebabnon but further alienated its friends, like myself, guaranteed yet another generation of committed "terrorists", and left a path of outrageous waste, death and destruction culminating in absoluely nothing.
An omen for what awaits the US in Iraq.