NEWS UPDATE: ISRAEL ADMITS WAR IS NOT JUST ABOUT RELEASING KIDNAPPED SOLDIERS: Didn't I tell you?

A BBC News Photo
(Kofi Annan)


In my last article, dtd Thursday July 20, 2006: ISRAEL’S ATTACK ON LEBANON IS SIMPLY AN EXTENSION OF THE BUSH POLICY: A US offensive by proxy, I stated that there were more-likely-than-not other underlying objectives driving Israel to conduct a wide scale campaign into Lebanon than the kidnaping of their soldiers; intimating simply that this justification was merely a pretext.

My conclusion was apparently right on target, as verified and validated by the Friday July 21, 2006 Guardian's article (page 15): Israel angry, US wary as Annan peace plan calls for ceasefire

The Guardian quotes the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan as follows: “Mr Annan said his three- member delegation to the Middle East had been told by Israeli leaders that their military golas were more far reaching than achieving the release of the captured soldiers, and that “the operation is not yet approaching the achievement of this objective.” There's not much I can add, except to say killing one's neighbors is no way to obtain an everlasting peace,or to stop the bloodletting.

For additional articles: Please read AMERICA'S PROXY WAR. Other Means, by Lawerence F. Kaplan, the New Republic Magazine: http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20060731&s=kaplan073106