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Saturday, August 05, 2006

Versailles Two?

I don't know for sure, but that's what the truce pact agreed upon by the U.S. and France sounds like to me. Lebanon loses the southernmost eighteen miles, Hezbollah disarmed, Israel still armed to the teeth and ready to redestroy Lebanon at the slightest provocation, real or imagined. I'm guessing that AP's interpretation below is correct:
The resolution asks that Israel and Lebanon agree to a set of principles to achieve a long-term peace. One crucial element is an arms embargo that would block any entity except the Lebanese government from buying weapons.

That is presumably meant to block the sale of arms to Hezbollah from Iran and Syria, believed to be the militia's main suppliers.
It couldn't possibly mean that ISRAEL would be banned from buying US weapons, now could it? And what happens when Hezbollah, whose popularity has skyrocketed (sorry, bad choice of words) in the past few weeks, becomes the majority government in Beirut? I'm afraid we all know the answer to that--just look at Gaza.