“Israel’s military is pressing on with an expanded ground offensive in south Lebanon, despite the UN Security Council vote for a ceasefire plan.” BBC
As the world’s diplomatic leaders scurry around trying to reach agreement on a resolution (which appears to meet the needs of both Lebanon and Israel) to end the hostilities in Lebanon and Israel, Israel is not letting up. On the contrary, as soon as it was apparent that the resolution was being widely accepted, they INTENSIFIED their assault on Lebanon. They were not making a decision as it is their Sabbath, and although the world’s diplomats including Lebanese dignitaries were calling emergency meetings traveling back and forth from NY and other locations, Israel would not provide their answer on the resolution until Sunday.
Although the government officials “could not meet” due to the Sabbath, for some reason the soldiers, tank operators, drone controllers, missile and armament specialists and fighter pilots were able to continue bombarding Lebanon. Not even “taking it easy” as it was their Sabbath. They intensified their attacks by tripling their ground force in Lebanon and continued raining down bombs, destroying more buildings and any roads that were left, hitting electric relays cutting off entire regions in the South from electricity and killing numerous civilians.
It appears this is their way of giving Lebanon one last kick in the gut before they are called back by the International community (just as a boxer in the 12th round throws as many punches as he can in hopes of landing that decisive blow before the bell is rung)… Or, worse, it is their way of instigating Hezbollah to react thereby giving Israel the ammunition they need to reject the resolution and continue their offensive into Lebanon and possibly escalate the conflict to a regional war (some US/Israeli analysts believe that a regional conflict that would draw in Syria and Iran is what the Neocons really want as that would allow Israel to hit Syria and Iran and give the US, through Nato, the green light to attack both Syria and Iran to ‘support’ Israel).
