The ugly cycle of cease fires that prolongs the war in the Middle East

CNN:

President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Friday announced that they would support a U.N. cease-fire resolution to end the Mideast crisis and the use of a multinational force to stabilize southern Lebanon.

The leaders said the force would help Lebanese troops take control of the south.

Fifty-one Israelis and 398 Lebanese have been killed since the July 12 capture of two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid by Hezbollah guerillas. (Full story)

The two sides have been pummeling each other for 17 days. Hezbollah has been lobbing dozens of rockets a day into northern Israel as the Jewish state has used airstrikes, artillery and ground troops against targets in Lebanon.

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There is more to this sorry story. One of the reasons this war has festered for nearly 60 years is that when ever the Muslim forces are on the ropes the whining victimhood lobby steps in the bail them out so that they can lick their wounds and rearm for the next war. Of all the cease fires since 1948 has there ever been one that was to Israel's advantage? Cease fires do not promote peace in the Middle East they prolong the conflict and give the Muslims another chance. Every cease fire with Hezballah has seen them come back even stronger and still determined to destroy Israel. So why not let Israel destroy Hezballah and make the world a better place? Will the next war with Hezballah be with an Iranian nuke? Is there any Mechanism that the UN could put in place that would be effective to stop them? Certainly Resolution 1559 was an abject failure. It was another example of the impotence of the UN just like their so called "peace keepers" on the border.

If the UN and the rest of the world bail out Hezballah again, it is just going to lead to a much more violent confrontation in the future. It is also going to again highlight the impotence of the UN, because the chances of it getting Hezballah disarmed are at best remote. What is more likely to happen is that it will be incorporated into the Lebanon army and put back in the same positions it has held for the last six years.

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