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G8 urges 'extremists' to stop Middle East attacks By Stephanie Kennedy and wires The leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) nations meeting in the Russian city of St Petersburg have called for a cease-fire in the Middle East. The escalating crisis in Israel and Lebanon dominated the meeting of leaders from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States. At the end of a four-hour discussion, the G8 leaders issued a statement calling on the "extremists" to halt their attacks. The leaders are also pressuring Israel, arguing that it was "critical that Israel, while exercising the right to defend itself, be mindful of the strategic and humanitarian consequences of its actions". The leaders have told Israel to "refrain from acts that would destabilise the Lebanese government" and to avoid civilian casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure. Israel has welcomed the statement by the G8 group, saying it put the onus on Hezbollah to free two Israeli soldiers and halt rocket fire on the Jewish state. "Israel concurs with the position of the international community, which places responsibility for the conflict on extremist elements," Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said. "(Israel) sees the path to a solution through the release of the abducted soldiers, a cessation of rocket fire on Israel, and full implementation of (UN) resolution 1559," she said in a statement. "Israel will cooperate with international parties to turn these principles into concrete diplomatic action."

That'll work. "You boys stop killing those boys"

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN i was watching the news hour with him lehrer and the analysis there seemed to be that the lebanese government is absolutely powerless to remove hezbollah from their country. theyre better armed, and they mentioned something i didnt quite grasp, about hezbollah's 'ace in the hole'. something to do with changing how parliament seats are awarded, which would put even more seats in hezbollah hands.

that still doesnt mean that they should just allow them to operate there.

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Has anyone else noticed the lack of coverage about Palestine? has it been forgotten - what's going on there?

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN i was watching the news hour with him lehrer and the analysis there seemed to be that the lebanese government is absolutely powerless to remove hezbollah from their country. theyre better armed, and they mentioned something i didnt quite grasp, about hezbollah's 'ace in the hole'. something to do with changing how parliament seats are awarded, which would put even more seats in hezbollah hands.

Well that just throws a hairball into things...(the parliament thing I'm talking about).

Not too surprised about Hezbollah being better armed though.
With Syria recently departing Lebanon, the Lebanese military obviously wasn't stablized enough, even though Syria thought so during their departure.
I can't understand why since Hezbollah were still firing rockets into Israel at that time...

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Originally posted by Goashem that still doesnt mean that they should just allow them to operate there.

so, what exactly would you suggest? the analysis i saw (and im hardly an expert so am forced to take it at face value) was that the lebanese government were powerless to stop them.

re the parliament, it was something about how the seats of parliament are organised by religion or something. but if hezbollah wanted to, they could force it to be by popular vote of which they have a lot more than their 30 odd seats currently.

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Originally posted by Fir3start3r My question is, why were they still there??? I realize they may have been trapped recently but it's not like they weren't cognisant of the situation before they arrived... This is not good...

Israel bombed the airport and the major roads leaving the country, it costs 300pounds for a three hour taxi ride to Damascus. There are about 1000 Australians in Lebanon now :/

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What are you going on about? What "more" enemies are there?

I think he means that world opinion of Israel has changed after their disproportionately bellicose response to Hezbollah's terror attacks, and while this will only draw criticism from the west, it has the potential to turn moderate allies like Jordan and Egypt against them.

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Originally posted by skot_e Has anyone else noticed the lack of coverage about Palestine? has it been forgotten - what's going on there?

If you watched Dateline the other night it showed the IDF shooting at the media to create a media blackout in Gaza, so it probably isn't good

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Originally posted by tathi Israel bombed the airport and the major roads leaving the country, it costs 300pounds for a three hour taxi ride to Damascus. There are about 1000 Australians in Lebanon now :/

That is understandable but I was kinda refering to leaving even before that.
I'll never understand people willingly vactioning in world hotspots....meh...

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I think he means that world opinion of Israel has changed after their disproportionately bellicose response to Hezbollah's terror attacks, and while this will only draw criticism from the west, it has the potential to turn moderate allies like Jordan and Egypt against them.

He should hire you to be his translator tathi; that makes much more sense.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN so, what exactly would you suggest? the analysis i saw (and im hardly an expert so am forced to take it at face value) was that the lebanese government were powerless to stop them. re the parliament, it was something about how the seats of parliament are organised by religion or something. but if hezbollah wanted to, they could force it to be by popular vote of which they have a lot more than their 30 odd seats currently.

i dont know im not a politician. plead for UN/US assistance, let israeli forces into the hezbollah controled area to get rid of them, have a media campaign to sway the public opinion against hezbollah. all fine by me. of course any israeli operation should be closely monitored by the international community.

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Guys.. what are we even doing? It's god's chosen people wiping out the "dirty arabs".. let them bomb those bastards and claim the whole mid-east region as theirs. After all it's their god given right to bomb the whole fucking world and call everyone a terrorist.

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Originally posted by Fir3start3r I'm sure if Israel wanted to, they could make Lebanon a pile of rubble in a couple of days.

WOW
I guess you really havent been watching what a disaster Lebenon has become in past few days.

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Unless Lebanon steps up to help rid themselves of their extremist infestation, you'd be right about one thing, the time factor goes way up....

This is bullshit.How are you expecting Lebenon to solve anything when thay are getting their asses bombed by the filthy zionists?

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Originally posted by skot_e Has anyone else noticed the lack of coverage about Palestine? has it been forgotten - what's going on there?

It is all about shifting attentions so that they can do their dirty works.God knows what type of massacre is happening in Gaza right now.

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