Sunday, July 16, 2006

Israel - An 'Act of War' Declared - Day Five

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Israel - An 'Act of War' Declared
Day Five

This morning’s top quote by George W. Bush
“I think most leaders are now beginning to recognise the root cause of the problem... There seems to be a consensus growing that...the world is going to have to recognise that there are terrorist elements who are dedicated to stopping the advance of democracy and peace.” Read more on G8 message at FT.com
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>>> 11:15am CDT
news1130.com reports this morning... Waves of warplanes thundering through the darkness bombed Beirut's southern suburbs for hours early Sunday, and Hezbollah rocket attacks killed at least nine people in Israel's third largest city... A barrage of rockets pounded the northern Israeli city of Haifa in the worst strike on Israel since violence broke out along the border with Lebanon last week. One of the rockets hit a storage room at the train station, killing nine people, Israeli police said. Many more people were wounded. Read this story in full HERE

> IrishExaminer.com reports... Lebanon’s Cabinet today issued a statement saying the country faced “real annihilation” by Israel. Read this story HERE

> jpost.com has a interesting report this morning. It goes in part like this... Israel will leave the World Press Federation if the organization does not retract its comment regarding the IDF's attacks on a television station belonging to the Hizbullah Al-Manar TV, Army Radio reported Sunday. Read this story HERE
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> DEBKAfile has a short read on the rocket volley into Israel today... along with a good map of what’s been going on over there. I found it best to look at the map in full screen. Click it out HERE
Read more updates at DEBKAfile’s Homepage
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>>> 12:45pm CDT
DaijiWorld.com reports... Israeli airstrikes pounded the southern suburbs of Beirut on Sunday... hours after a rocket attack on Haifa killed eight Israelis. The militant group Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack on Haifa, saying it was responding to overnight Israeli airstrikes inside Lebanon. Read this story in full HERE
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>>> 1:00pm CDT
jpost.com is now reporting... The IDF on Sunday mobilized a reserve infantry division in preparation for a possible ground incursion into south Lebanon, The Jerusalem Post has learned. The move was intended as the beginning of a new effort to push Katyusha rocket launching cells away from the Israel-Lebanon border. Read this story in full HERE
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>>> 6:20pm CDT
FoxNews.com
is reporting... Israel sent a warplane to bomb the Palestinian Foreign Ministry building in Gaza City early Monday, the second airstrike on the ministry in a week, pushing ahead with its three-week offensive in Gaza after militants killed two soldiers and captured a third. Read this story HERE
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>>> 8:15pm CDT
FoxNews.com is now reporting... Rockets fired from Lebanon late Sunday exploded in the Israeli towns of Upper Nazareth and Afula. The two towns are about 25 miles south of the Lebanese border, about the same distance as Haifa. Just prior to the rocket fire, for the fourth time since Wednesday an Israeli warship blasted Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport... Read this story in full HERE
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>>>8:30pm CDT
About 15 minutes ago... while the Fox News Channel was doing a live shot with Jennifer Griffin, (who is a Jerusalem based correspondent for Fox News,) at least 15
Hezbollah Rockets flew close by and over her head into Israel. Not sure of targets or what damage was done... if any. More to come...
AJ
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>>> 10:55pm CDT
Jpost.com
is now reporting, (this would update my post above at 8:30pm,) that some Israelis woke up Monday morning to two fresh barrages of Katyusha rockets - one targeting the western Galilee villages of Julis, Abu Snaan, and Kfar Yasif, and the second landing in and around Haifa. Read story in full HERE
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** U.S. Department of State **
Travel.State.Gov
(Current information - A message to American citizens in Lebanon)
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Daily UPDATES of EVENTS on GROUND at IDF Official Website
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NOTE:
More ongoing updates can be found at:
EuroNews
(Has Videos- Photos)
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A good Summary of all the day/night events can be viewed at:
IBA (Israel Broadcasting Authority) TV NEWS in ENGLISH
And at
JerusalemOnline.com – Has TV NEWS in ENGLISH
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This is event number two and the World ratchets up one more notch to an all-out war. It’s not going to take but one or two more significant events in this conflict to set this over into an all-out WORLD WAR.
Get ready Mr. President.
The biggest decision of your life might be coming.
We all pray that moment never comes......
AubreyJ.........
July 12, 2006
11:30am CDT
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What other Blogs are reporting:
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Bubblehead
Bubblehead has more on-
Iranian Involvement In Missile Attack On Israeli Ship
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Michelle Malkin
(G8 LEADERS: RETURN ISRAELI SOLDIERS)
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Bottom Line Up Front
(Amy has a good read titled: Al-jazeera Plays the Race Card in the Israeli Conflict)
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SGT. HOOK
(Disproportionate – Has Photo)
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