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EVERYONE REJECTS IT! AND - WHO THE HELL IS BRUTUS IN THIS UNHOLY GAME...?
This draft alone has become a quagmire already! Lebanon rejects it. And Israel rejects it - which goes almost without saying:
The Israeli requests including the following:
* Removing all mention of Shaba Farms, so as to avoid linking the cease-fire to an Israeli withdrawal from Shaba. However, government sources said that the United States is unlikely to accede to this.
* Altering the clause on preventing arms transfers to Hezbollah to make the Lebanese government explicitly responsible for preventing such transfers and to give UNIFIL, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, a greater role in supervising the border crossings.
* Instituting an explicit international embargo on arms transfers to Hezbollah. The current draft merely calls for such an embargo to be established sometime in the future.
* Removing the reference to Israel's "offensive military operations." Israel claims that it is merely defending itself against Hezbollah's attacks....
An interesting sideline: Lahoud asked for presence of Iranian troops in Northern Israel. No, I think I mixed up something here - it was Olmert who asked for German troops in Lebanon...
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Anyhow - AsiaTimes thinks that the NATO will be the "looser" in all this.
Maybe - the only thing I can say with quite some certainity is that Israel resembles the dagger in this almost Shakespearean drama. But who will be Brutus? Iran or the US? And - most of all - Who the hell will play the part of Caesar?
War on 'error, Part 44: "You, too, Brutus, my son?" Far Sight 3
