Very interesting article for on Israeli withdrowal and its consecuences

Hizballahstan
Ehud Ya'ari

(Bilal Kasmar/AP)
(June 19, 2000) From the ramparts of the castle of Beaufort all the way to the Mediterranean shore, the majority of the territory that was once known as Fatahland, and that later became the Israeli-controlled security zone, has now turned into Hizballahstan.
The bottom line: Israel has, pure and simply, handed over control along the length of its northern border to a party that has declared Holy War against it. If, before the withdrawal, the open-fire regulations for IDF soldiers guarding the border were to shoot any armed, unidentified element on sight, they now have to keep their safety catches firmly closed even as a Hizballah fighter waves his rifle across the fence, less than a hundred yards away from houses on the perimeter of Upper Galilee communities.
Without any exaggeration or resort to poetic license, the IDF is now deployed outside the lounge window of my Aunt Devorah’s house in Metullah; Hizballah sits just across the fence in Kafr Kila, recruiting into its ranks the young Shi’ites who used to help with the cherry-picking in Devorah’s orchards. She spotted a few of them on TV sporting new stubble and the yellow flags of the new lords in the area, saluting Hizballah secretary general Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah at the victory rally he held on May 26 in liberated South Lebanon. Some of the new recruits can, by the way, still be reached on their Israeli cell phones, but that won’t be the case for long. For the first time in a quarter century, since the end of 1975, the Good Fence is locked and all traffic across the famous border point has stopped.
This new reality won’t change even if the U.N. realizes all its plans for upgrading UNIFIL from six to eight battalions and deploying them along the electronic wire of the international border line. UNIFIL doesn’t have any real mandate to operate against Hizballah. Rather, its brief is to assist the Lebanese government in enforcing its authority. In any case, only a fool would believe that Italians, French, Danes or Australians, should they ever appear, would put their heart into continuing from the point at which the IDF left off. We have already witnessed how UNIFIL officers from the command headquarters in Naqura were invited to Bint Jbeil to listen to Sheikh Nasrallah make a mockery of the Security Council and explain that he has no interest in its resolutions. Naturally, it didn’t occur to them to get up and leave as the crowd of thousands bellowed out an oath of allegiance to Iran’s leader Ayatollah Khamenei. Sure, it would be nice if the Foreign Legionnaires were to come in place of the UNIFIL soldiers from Fiji or Ghana, or in addition to them, but it won’t make a huge difference. Lebanon is no Sierra Leone, but the Blue Helmets aren’t likely to clash with the turbans.
The hope in the corridors of the U.N. and in Jerusalem, that regular troops of the Lebanese Army will be sent south, also remains a distant one. According to the assessments, a deployment on a scale of two to three brigades could rein in Hizballah’s control over the territory and could only aid stability. But all that Syria had allowed Lebanese President Emile Lahoud to do by press time was to send down a few hundred gendarmes to protect the Christian villages that had been the target of raids and looting. The Lebanese gendarmes in their mottled uniforms, submachine guns at the ready, make for good photographs, but nobody in Lebanon takes them seriously. They represent nothing more than a means for the puppet government in Beirut to display nominal sovereignty without impinging on the de facto control seized by Hizballah in the first 48 hours after the Israeli evacuation.
Syria managed to create a vacuum in South Lebanon that, predictably, has been filled by Hizballah. True, Nasrallah conceded power in the Druse sector in the southeast to the militias of Walid Jumblatt and the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party. Hizballah also tolerates an Amal armed presence in the Shi’ite areas. But overall superiority belongs decidedly, unequivocally, to Hizballah.
THE REST IS ON:
http://www.jrep.com/Mideast/Article-0.html

Djuma..or Djopa Na Maidani

Does Djopa("ass" in Russian) ever tells the brains what to do? ASS, you are only good for assuming the position. Ready?

The investigation group which is gathering evidence about the terrorist act against Grozny Mayor Supyan Mokhchayev is considering a few versions. It is noteworthy to say that RF acting deputy plenipotentiary in Chechnya Sergei Zakharov and aide of Grozny Mayor Nursed Khabuseyev were killed in the accident. As acting prosecutor of the Chechen Republic Vladimir Kravchenko reported to RIA Novosti today, investigation bodies are in particular considering the complicity of Aslan Maskhadov, Akhmadov brothers or "field warlords" Arbi Barayev and Ruslan Gelayev. According to Kravchenko, all versions undergo thorough elaboration and serious evidence has been already gathered. Thus, the acting prosecutor said, an identikit of the person who supposedly pressed the button of a radio-controlled land mine corresponds to the image of a criminal who has been on a wanted list with law enforcement agencies. The identikit has been compiled according to witnesses' information.

June 8 12:42 PM ET
Russia Security Boss Says Joining NATO Is Possible
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of Russia's influential Security Council
followed Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin in an interview published
Thursday by saying that the country could one day join the NATO
alliance.
``Why not? Even though such a thought sounds a bit wild at the
moment,'' Sergei Ivanov told the popular daily Komsomolskaya Pravda.

``But the world is changing and everything will be dictated by
economic interests. For Russia, these lie to a great extent in the
sphere of western Europe.''

" In its interview with Ivanov, Komsomolskaya Pravda also said that
Ivanov had developed proficiency in English largely through a
passion in his youth for the Beatles."

All you need is love...

Igor,
You forgot to post this:

"June 8 3:03 PM ET
Canada MP Wants NATO Commander Tried for War Crimes
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - An outspoken Canadian lawmaker called on
Thursday for the U.S. army general who commanded NATO forces during
the 1999 bombing campaign in Kosovo to be tried for war crimes for
the deaths of civilians."
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And this is for...

Antonio!
(I hope you will like it)

From the same article

"Robinson, Canada's only openly gay MP, is no stranger to
controversy. Last year, he presented a petition in parliament that
sought to remove references to God from the Canadian constitution."

Fred,
but then again, if Russia ever desides to do so (heh), don't you think they will demand to rename NATO?

..to something like WATO.

Alla hi! Alla Ho! ...........Alla HI! HO!

Russian cowards are now turning to rapist Clinton and his NATO thugs to help in it doomed adventure in Chechnya.

Clinton is welcome to hell.

ArbY,

French fries with some mayo and a medium Pepsi, please. That would be all.

Oh Geeese....Clinton won't be arround much longer. This is an election year. You see the US is a democratic and a President can only serve 2 terms...so maybe you should welcome W Bush to hell...."NATO thugs" . You should be more creative with your condemnations...Try "Evil NATO flying cowboys".....then take off your shoe bang it on a table and say."We will bury you". For added effect.

>>>By Dimitri ( - 63.85.63.20) on Friday, June 9, 2000 - 06:12 pm:
Djuma..or Djopa Na Maidani

Does Djopa("ass" in Russian) ever tells the brains what to do? >>>

Dimitri reminds me a little dog, sitting behind the front fence and barking anyone crossing the pedestrian walk. You can see how sad it is, no one paying attention to it, just trying to get attention by barking to anyone who walks past. It has absolutely nothing else to do, no real life, no real friends. It is the only one always here, on this board, whenever I have time to visit.

Sit little doggy sit. Good dogy, here is a huge bone for you to lick then pluck into your little hole. Some call it "DJOPA".

hey ya, Dumbfucked Belly Dancing Turka!

how nice of you to bark again. Ask anyone here if they care who reminds you what.
If anyone else on this board could be accused of being 'Djopa' that would a famous, for sticking a tale between legs and 'retreating' from just one Ruski(oh, memories!), a dumb as well as fu*ked dance-loving/hahaha/turka. With the small 't'.

GENTLEMEN...PLEASE...AS A DEBONAIR AND PROPER LADY OF STATUE, I'M FINDING MYSELF EVER SO EMBARRASSED BY THE LANGUAGE BEING UTILIZED ON THIS BOARD.

WITH THAT BEING SAID, ANY OF YOU HOMO FAGGOTS "YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE" WANT TO ARM WRESTLE ME?

BIG HELLO KIMMIE

How's my partner in wenchness been since our excursion last weekend? Found myself ever so busy this week but alas, ready to party again, YOU?
Kimmie, call me at home tomorrow morning.

LUV YA

It appears that BROWNSTAINS ALLAMERICAN and that famous transexual SWEETCHEEKS BACON have consumated their relationship. We wish you well ladies..or very, very gentlemen..or whatever you are.

Maybe the next relationship to be announced will be that of URINAL SCRUBBER LASER & STINKY FEET JAKE B.

OHHHH....isn't technology wonderfull the way it can bring people together. UMMMM...wonder if there's a Mr. Right somewhere out there for me?? Not that I'm looking, just wondering. Oh..well Saturday plans: guess I'll shave my face and forearms, take my weekly Saturday bath, have a cup of tea, read a bit and go to sleep early again. SUCH THE LIFE of a single female. Don't think I'll be brushing my 3 front teeth. OH WOH, OH WOH, OH WOH..IS ME