From: Cherifa Sirry <cherifasirry@yahoo.com>
Date: September 24, 2010 1:20:09 AM EDT
To: Cherifa Sirry <cherifasirry@link.net>
Subject: Israel-Lebanon 3rd war is ahead

Please distribute.  Israel and its apologists in the US will do anything to start a war.   All this "negotiations" crap is Bull Shit.  Israel needs a war, military corporations need the money.. and the US government I am sorry to say is held by the balls... that is if it has any left. Full report is herewith attached or can be downloaded from here:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/37913846/If-War-Comes-Israel-vs-Hizballah-and-Its-Allies http://babulilmlibrary.com/news/israel-lebanon-3rd-war-is-ahead Israel-Lebanon 3rd war is ahead A pro-Israeli think tank has declared in a report that a third war between Israel and Lebanon could spell doom for the loser. "The new war will likely be wider in geographic scope and more destructive," said the report released this week by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP). The author, Jeffrey White, a veteran intelligence and defense analyst, wrote that a new war between Israel and Lebanon will be potentially marked by "high-intensity operations from the beginning," Lebanon's The Daily Star reported on Wednesday. "And for the losing side, the consequences may well be fateful," he added. In the report, White claimed that Israel would emerge victorious if it invested in securing the necessary resources, reported Ali Rizk, Press TV's correspondent in Beirut, on Tuesday. Israel waged wars against the country in 2000 and 2006 but was heavily defeated by the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, and was forced to withdraw on both occasions. About 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, died in the second round of its offensives. Hezbollah has pledged to retaliate, should Tel Aviv renew the attacks. The resistance movement has publicly announced that it has the capability to hit targets deep into Israel and to strike Israeli Navy vessels even before they reach the Lebanese waters, Rizk added. Speaking to our correspondent, Timur Goskel, former advisor to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, which is mandated to patrol the southern Lebanon, questioned White's claims in the WINEP report. "He doesn't know the other side of the story. He doesn't know what is happening here or what is Hezbollah doing or what is Hezbollah capable of. …he is guessing from newspapers and whatever and Hezbollah is not the organization you can read about in newspapers accurately. They don't talk too much," Goskel added. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC07.php?CID=542 If War Comes: Israel vs. Hizballah and Its Allies Featuring Jeffrey White and Andrew Exum September 17, 2010   Listen to Audio   Although summer 2010 passed without a war between Israel and Hizballah, many observers believe that another confrontation in the near term is inevitable. If war breaks out again on the Israel-Lebanon border, the conflict would bear little resemblance to the 2006 hostilities. It would in all likelihood be a transformational, even fateful, event for the entire region. To discuss the nature of a future war, the likely objectives of the belligerents, and the implications for the region, The Washington Institute held a special Policy Forum marking the release of its newest publication, If War Comes: Israel vs. Hizballah and its Allies, by Jeffrey White. Former Institute Soref fellow Andrew Exum offered commentary as well. Read a rapporteur's summary of their remarks. Jeffrey White is a defense fellow at The Washington Institute and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA's) Office for Middle East/Africa Regional Military Assessments. At the DIA, Mr. White provided intelligence support during multiple Middle East crises, from the 1968 Arab-Israeli War of Attrition to the developing conflict with Iraq in 2002. His Washington Institute publications include Lessons and Implications of the Israel-Hizballah War: A Preliminary Assessment (with David Makovsky, 2006) and Hamas in Combat: The Military Performance of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (with Yoram Cohen, 2009). Andrew Exum, a former U.S. Army officer who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, is a fellow at the Center for a New American Security. A graduate of the American University of Beirut and a doctoral candidate at King's College London, he has provided analysis on the conflict in southern Lebanon since 2004. Mr. Exum is a former Washington Institute Soref fellow whose published works include Hizballah at War: A Military Assessment (The Washington Institute, 2006).