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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (191804)	7/16/2006 4:54:01 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hizbullah will throw everything it's got at Haifa. Hizbullah knows that it must use it or lose it. Israel has just mobilized a reserve infantry division. A hell of a strategy to get Hizbullah to disarm.. They have flung close to 1,000 rockets at Israel, thus far... Only 11,000 more to go.. hehe I will say that I think Israel might have made a political mistake though. I think they should have publicly pushed the option of "shaming" the Lebanese army into doing what they were supposed to do in the first place, create a buffer on the border between Hizbullah controlled territory and Israel. They should have taken the political steps to call upon Europe and the US and other nations to demand that Lebanon do this (even though we all know they don't have the capability of doing so). It would have given them some political cover and and increased the perception that they were supportive of the Lebanese government disbanding Hizbullah and that Israel stood ready to lend whatever support they required to implement UNSC 1559. Again.. we know that Lebanon doesn't have the military power to take on Hizbullah, but from an international perspective it might have prevented some of the current international hesitation toward supporting the Israel actions. Hawk