PM's Office: Lebanon offensive will continue
Last update - 03:19 12/08/2006
PM's Office: Lebanon offensive will continue
By Aluf Benn, Amos Harel, Yoav Stern and Eli Ashkenazi, and Agencies
Ehud Olmert's office said late Friday that the expanded incursion into Lebanon would continue "for the time being," despite agreeing to a cease-fire resolution drafted by the United Nations Security Council.
Israel will press ahead with its military offfensive in south
Lebanon until Israel's Cabinet approves an emerging Mideast cease-fire deal, the Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said early Saturday.
"The logic would be that even in the framework of this successful outcome, if you hand over to the Lebanese army a cleaner south Lebanon, a south Lebanon where you have Hezbollah removed from the territory, that makes their [the Lebanese] troubles a lot easier," Regev said.
Senior Israel Defense Forces officers said that the IDF is "continuing forward at full power," and that all forces slated to take part in the expanded incursion have already assumed forward positions in the field.
Olmert will ask his cabinet on Sunday to accept the resolution, but will press the military offensive against Hezbollah until then, a political source said.
The highest failure of a political leader is to committee his military to a war or a conflict or what ever you want to call it and ask men to risk their lives under such conditions such as Olmert is.
It is one thing to go to war in Lebanon to destroy Hizballah and follow through with it to the end.
It is an other thing to ask the IDF to fight Friday night and Saturday until the cowards and traitors in the cabinet on Sunday vote to accept the UN cease fire.
This should cost Olmert his job and even more than that he should disappear from public life.
