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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (78205)	7/22/2006 7:12:24 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

It was not necessary to destroy roads and bridges and bomb densely populated civilian centers in Beirut. It is the bombing of oil dumps and bridges in Beirut that Israel is being criticized for. Damascus is stuffed with resupply for Hizbullah, which would be reaching them now if Israel hadn't bombed the roads and bridges. Furthermore, Hizbullah keeps its active supply of rockets in some densely populated areas of Southern Beirut, which is why Israel told the civilians to get out and bombed them. Pushing Hizbullah 20 miles back is not going to do anything. Iran, which is already giving them silkworms, can just give them some longer range missiles.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (78205)	7/25/2006 12:37:35 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 81568

Israel's critic of the conflict would be silenced if they carried out their military operation according to their stated goal which is to ensure that Hezbollah rockets do not reach Israel. To achieve this goal, all that Israel needed to do was to enter Lebanon and push Hezbollah back some 20 miles into Lebanon. There ideal goal (but probably not very achievable, at least not soon) is to disarm Hezbollah or destroy them as an effective force. A more limited goal would be to make sure that Hezbollah's rockets do not reach Israel. A 20 mile buffer zone would not be enough to do that because Hezbollah has some weapons with longer ranges that that, and if need be they can get more of these longer range weapons, but it could reduce the number of Hezbollah attacks in to Israel, so it might be somewhat useful. The roads and bridges would be used by Hezbollah to move around in response to Israeli attacks to create a buffer zone, or otherwise hamper or disrupt Hezbollah, and to get new supplies of rockets to replace those that have been fired into Israel or destroyed by Israeli attacks. I imagine Hezbollah still has a lot of rockets, and I also imagine new supplies will come in despite the destroyed bridges and damaged roads, but it likely will cause some disruption of the resupply effort.