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05 August 2006

reaction to draft UN resolution

this is a very quick first reaction:

- hezbollah ceases attacks and israel ceases offensive military actions: so can israel still make defensive military actions? how is this to be interpreted?

- what is the negotiating line between full cessation as umbrella project and immediate cessation as goals--- e.g. can israel claim that it needs 10 more days (to do what? olmert already claimed that hezbollah's infrastructure is destroyed) to accomplish X, Y, Z.

- UNIFIL vs. Lebanese army vs. other intl force (NATO?). the draft names UNIFIL but i wonder how the U.S. army fits in here, e.g. as military consultants. who will really disarm hezbollah and how will this take place? will it really take place? lots of fuzzy territory here.

- and really, is this going anywhere? how much will be tossed around? how ready are hezbollah and israel to sit around a negotiating table? what about public perception?

it's great that we're here, that the us won't veto this resolution at the security council, but these first steps are such babies!!!


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