occupy Lebanon up to the Litani River. The river is between 8 and 22 miles from the border? How will this protect them from rockets which have a range up to 40 miles? I think it's for the water rights and they will occupy both sides of the river. Any other thoughts?
2006-08-09 06:27:12 · 5 answers · asked by TxSup 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The river is not far enough to protect against rocket strikes. The border formed by the river varies and is as little as 8 miles from the current (now old?) northern border of Israel. If water wasn't important Israel, why pick this river as an occupation zone, why not a more straight line, a uniform distance from the Arabs?
2006-08-09 07:38:39 · update #1
Mate if you have the guts to say Israel is defending it self by occupying yet another country!!! then threes not much i can say to you. If you use your brain and think for a second, why do people turn into terrorists!! you will find that killing your relatives, raping your daughters, occupying your land, blowing up your house, destroying your city, bombing your village, city or town, destroying bridges, hospitals, churches etc.. will turn you into a terrorist. If you think that Israel by occupying Lebanon are doing them selves a favor you are kidding your self, it will be faced by more terrors ts and more blood will be shed, its time people came to their senses, cause innocent lives are being shattered
2006-08-09 07:11:24 · answer #1 · answered by hot_anthony_1982 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it's possible Israel wants the water rights. Water's pretty important in the Middle East. It's pretty fishy how they expanded this war. I have read that Israel had plans to start a war for at least 10 months and they were just waiting for Hezbollah to give them the excuse. They watched the build up of rockets and never said anything publically to the the UN or the US. Israel knew that the US would back them 100% but only as long as Bush was in office. The Isralis feared that Bush would have no power after the November elections here. All of this explains why they struck so quickly and so hard last month, and are so intent on "finishing the job" of destroying the country of Lebanon before a cease fire..
Do you have any sources for your speculation about the water rights? Are any factions in Israel planning to settle in this "buffer zone"? Or would the water be diverted to use a few miles away?
2006-08-09 11:10:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They could care less about water rights. If they occupy the space up to the river the rocket attacks will be more difficult to complete. The further they drive the Hezbo's north the further the rockets will be from the population centers of Israel. This is not a land grab its a defensive strike against a bigger enemy then people realized.
When the UN was asked how many rockets were moved into the zone they were patrolling in southern Lebanon they said none....we'll they are firing off 200 a day now and have fired off nearly 5,000 so far. The UN does a pretty lousy job.
2006-08-09 06:38:11 · answer #3 · answered by netjr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Israel doesn't want to occupy anything. They are going in there to push back the hezbollah, and wait for an international force to step in in order for there to be a large buffer zone to the border of Israel. Once that will happen, Israel will pull out.
2006-08-09 07:30:57 · answer #4 · answered by peace 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How far south of the border is Haifa? If it's more than 20 miles, then the Hesbollah rockets will fall short of their major target (unless they really do have longer range rockets that can hit Tel Aviv, in which case the Israelis will have to advance as far as, say, Turkey!)
2006-08-09 06:34:21 · answer #5 · answered by tjs282 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋