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Friday, July 28, 2006

Which part was a slip?

The Israeli ambassador to the US, Daniel Ayalon said on CNN last night with Paula Zahn the following items I found interesting.

"We are now in the forefront of the war, of global war of terrorism"Sure, he just said it wrong... but how appropriate.

Now, we do what we have to do. And we will continue doing that. Now, there is some kind of inconsistency, Paula, with the position of the Europe -- European Union, or for the U.N., for that matter.

On the one hand, they ask us for a -- an early, or immediate, cease-fire. On the other hand, they ask us for restraint. This does not go together. Because we are restrained, we cannot go for an early cease-fire, because we are very systematic. We are very careful. We suffer a lot of casualties by being care -- by being careful, and not targeting civilians, but only Hezbollah strongholds, which specifically are located in densely populated areas.



I think that it was...CNN, that showed that one of the...guys of the...UNIFIL position was e-mailing, for the last four or five days, to U.N. headquarters that Hezbollah is being all over them. What Hezbollah is doing, specifically locating themselves smack- dab to U.N. positions. This is why they were caught in the crossfire. This is why they were hurt, because of Hezbollah's tactics.
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ZAHN: ... they also maintained they had made repeated calls to warn that this fire was coming closer and closer, and to -- to make the Israeli forces not bombard that area.

AYALON: Yes, but when you call the forces, which are themselves under fire, things happen. You know, friendly-fire also happens. We, of course, regretted it. But the --the source of the problem is the Hezbollah tactics.


- all emphasis is of course, mine

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