'We'll fight until troops are freed'  Monday, July 17, 2006
"There are moments in the life of a nation, when it is compelled
to look directly into the face of reality and say: no more!"
Olmert said in a speech in the Knesset plenum Monday evening.
"And I say to everyone: no more! Israel will not be held hostage
- not by terror gangs or by a terrorist authority or by any
sovereign state." Israeli Prime Minister Olmert  I think the
translation might be off but I understand and agree with the
sentiment. Olmert spelled out the four goals of the military
operations: The return of the abducted Israeli soldiers, a
complete cease fire, deployment of the Lebanese army in all of
southern Lebanon, expulsion of Hizbullah from the area, and
fulfillment of United Nations Resolution 1559. If no one else
will do it, what right have others to criticize Israel for
enforcing a UN resolution? There are some extraordinary risks
involved, to be sure. Syria could engage in defense of its
creature Hezbollah as soon as the Isaelis cr