[lbo-talk] What's their game?

[Michael J. Smith]

The latest diktat from Jerusalem is that Israel will keep battering
Lebanon until an "international force" is deployed there. But 
needless to say, nations which might conceivably provide troops 
for such a force aren't eager to do so unless there's been a 
cease-fire and a political framework agreed upon between
Israel and Lebanon. 

So what's Israel's game here? Is the demand for an international 
force under impossible conditions just a figleaf for re-occupation 
and population removal? Or is Israel really trying to get some 
Western nation or nations embroiled alongside them fighting
Hezbollah, and ultimately Syria and Iran? 

Usually, the best way to tell what Israel really wants is to see
what Democratic politicians start calling for. So far none of 
them have jumped on the international force bandwagon, as
far as I know, which lends some support to the figleaf theory.

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  Michael J. Smith

  mjs at smithbowen.net

  http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org