The international community, no doubt strong armed to a certain degree by the Bush Administration, actually showed a great deal of clarity in its statement Sunday regarding the escalating situation along the Israel-Lebanon border.
Beirut has been screaming for a ceasefire for days, urging the world to impose a cessation of hostilities not on Hizb’allah, but on Israel.
But leaders of the world’s top industrialized nations (G-8) meeting in St. Petersburg told Lebanon it will have calm only AFTER aggression against the Jewish state ceases.
“We demand first that the Israeli soldiers be returned to Israel healthy, that the attacks on Israel cease, and then naturally for Israel to halt military action,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that perhaps Israel’s offensive should go on a bit longer, so that when a ceasefire is reached it will be sustainable.
And Britain’s Tony Blair agreed with Bush that the root problem is Syrian and Iranian support for anti-Israel terror.
The only dissenters were France’s Jacque Chirac and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, who unsurprisingly accused Israel of going too far in what their skewed view of the world tells them is Israel’s quest to destroy Lebanon.
More:
Full text of the G8 statement
From Captain Ed: G8: We’ll restrain Israel when you restrain yourselves
From Michelle Malkin: G8 leaders: Return Israeli soldiers
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4 comments so far ↓
1 RightWinged.com // Jul 17, 2006 at 6:18 am
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While there Bush’s comments on the recent outbreak of war in the middle east have been pretty well received by most, I think many people are overlooking one small thing that he said, that isn’t quite sending the right message…….
2 Tel-Chai Nation // Jul 17, 2006 at 6:24 am
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3 Salah Uddin // Jul 19, 2006 at 8:35 pm
may I extend my condoleances to all the people of Israel and particularly Haifa.
There will b e no summer holidays this year it looks like you will enter winter with the same complexion and a larger nose from the lack of air in the bunkers!
Can we help you make it faser? Tell us where you are, I’ll tell my friends in south lebanon!
4 Marylin // Feb 5, 2008 at 4:28 pm
may you burn in hell, salah uddin
your friends in lebanon still alive?
you know if Israel wanted it could easily crush lebanon, so shut your gob
speaking of large noses, your people have reptile eyes, espacially the ones with lighter eye colors, you have an animal gaze, your eyes look cunning and wild,
your people are an affliction to this world!
a little advice for Israel,
for every Jew killed by the arabs, Israel will kill 10 arabs
1 Jew for 10 arabs
so if in the war with lebanon, died approx 160 Jews, in Lebanon it should be not 700 0r 800 but 1600 of dead arab filth
1600 arab scum should have been killed
1 Jew in exchange for 10 dirty arabs
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