News roundup
For those of you not reading the news:
Today, Hezbollah has attacked Haifa (taking out apparently a residential building), Tiberias, Safed/Tzfat, the Golan Heights, as well as numerous locations across northern Israel. The IDF confirms that Israeli ground forces have entered Southern Lebanon; the media thinks it is still up in the air.
Tony Blair calls for international troops - to stop Hezbollah. Only then, he notes, will Israel stop. It's worth the bits to note that unlike Kofi Annan, would-be dictator of the world, he does not call on Israel to not exercise her right of self-defense. Thank you, Tony. Israel opposes this, likely because the UN is ineffective, and would just serve as a shield for Hezbollah operations, rather than stopping them.
Bush's offhand comment: "See, the irony is what they really need to do is to get Syria to get Hizbullah to stop doing this shit and it's over." Thank you, George.
An F-16 downed? The IDF denies it.
The IDF bombs the PA's foreign ministry and a Hamas security force office; Hamas launches Qassams at Ashkelon. An IDF patrol is Nablus was attacked. In an amazing show of restraint, the Al-Aqsa Brigades are going to return body parts to Israel. A Palestinian was stopped at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem with five kilos of explosives.
Apparently, all three soldiers are still alive - Gilad Shalit somewhere in Gaza, and the two Druze in the Iranian embassy in Beirut.
