Israeli Missiles Targeting Bridges in Christian Heartland of North Lebanon

Israeli Missiles Targeting Bridges in the Christian Heartland of North Lebanon

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) 5 minutes ago — Israel’s pounding of Hezbollah positions across Lebanon expanded with missiles targeting bridges in the Christian heartland north of Beirut for the first time, an attack that further isolates Lebanon from the outside world.

Four civilians were killed and 10 wounded in the airstrikes north of the capital, the Lebanese Red Cross said. A Lebanese soldier and four civilians were killed in air raids near Beirut’s airport and southern suburbs, security officials and witnesses said.

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Lebanese citizens inspect the destroyed bridge of Halat, which links Beirut to northern Lebanon, in a sharp expansion of its bombing, blasted highway bridges for the first time in the Christian heartland north of the capital during morning rush hour. AP Photo/Hussein Malla

The destruction of four bridges on the main north-south coastal highway linking Beirut to Syria further sealed Lebanon from outside links, as the Israeli naval blockade and earlier strikes against roadways have largely closed off other access points.

Lebanon News via Naharnet —
Israeli Warplanes Unleash Fierce Strikes on Bridges North of Beirut Cutting Off Capital

BBC News: Middle East crisis – Key maps

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Lebanon damage report

Syria and Hezbollah – A Common Cause

≈ Cross-posted from Soj’s  diary — My Thoughts on Israel/Lebanon ≈

I mean “lose” in the sense of a boxer losing a title fight on the points, rather than a more dramatic knockout.

Could also read: I mean “win” in the sense of a champion boxer not able to knock out his inferior opponent in the first round, but winning a title fight on points, or worse, through interference of the referee because of a bloodied eyebrow.

Have you read about the Iranean Jewish Commanding General (IAF), Major General Dan Halutz, and his call, admitting war crimes against the civilian population of Palestinians, as the record clearly shows since 2001 and the Ariel Sharon – George Bush alliance came into existence. The Jewish lobby claims a moral right to kill civilians, see works of Alan Dershowitz.

Fellow commanding officers experienced the defeat of the Lebanon occupation and Israeli withdrawal at the hands of the Hizbollah as young officers, wanting to set the record straight in the war today under the inexperienced Olmert and Peretz. Similar to Bush II as early as Cheney commanded in his transitional administration, set to oust Saddam Hussein at the first chance or provocation, because of the assassination attempt on daddy in Kuwait and the failure to go into Baghdad in 1991 (Cheney – Rumsfeld – Powell).

Syria sponsors the Hezbollah in a common cause to reach a final agreement with Israel on the Shaba’a Farms and Golan Heights – see my diary The Borders of Auschwitz. This was confirmed yesterday in a radio interview I followed on a Dutch network, Syria would apply political pressure on the Hezbollah in exchange for a final agreement and the return of the occupied Golan Heights, a prisoner swap and the Israeli map with locations of landmines in Lebanon and on the Syrian border.

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Christian and Muslim Leaders Hail Hizbollah

The Uneven Calculus of Mideast Victory

BEIRUT (Christian Science Monitor) Aug. 2 — Lebanese Christian and Muslim religious leaders accused Israel of “war crimes” and “hailed the [Hizbullah] resistance” in a joint statement.

“Hizbullah can’t afford to stand and fight…. They don’t even need to. All they need to do is inflict casualties and disappear. [Israeli forces] will be subject to ongoing Hizbullah attacks that will just go on and on until the Israelis withdraw,” says British defense analyst Charles Heyman, a former editor of Jane’s World Armies.

Hezbollah: Phoenix From the Ashes?

BALANCED DEBATE IN POND —
A discussion on Qana massacre in some excellent diaries

● Son Enfant Mort ◊ Madman in the Marketplace
● CONDI: Midwife From Hell — A Photo Diary … ◊ by STOP George
● How Israel Lied About Qana ◊ by Londonbear
● A New Qana Massacre 60 Killed ¶ US-Israel Game Plan ◊ by Oui
● Deliberate Attack on UNIFIL Has Terrible Precedent ◊ by Sirocco