Asia Times joind the looney toons, too bad for an occasionally interesting paper

It's about annexation, stupid!

Officially, Israel's ground invasion of Lebanon is an act of self-defense against Hezbollah's threat, aimed at creating a security buffer zone until the arrival of a "multinational force with an enforcement capability". But increasingly, as the initial goal of a narrow strip of only a few kilometers has now been extended up to the Litani River deep in Lebanon, the real motives behind Israel's invasion are becoming crystal-clear.

It's about (de facto) annexation, stupid. This is a war to annex a major chunk of Lebanese territory without necessarily saying so, under the pretext of security buffer and deterrence against future attacks on Israel.

Already, since the Six Day War, Israel has annexed the Sheba Farms, considered part of the Syrian Golan Heights, although thegovernment of Lebanon has long complained that the 25-square-kilometer area was a part of Lebanon. Now the Israeli army is sweeping the area south of the Litani River as a temporary occupation.

So if Lebanon, a fool's state, that failed to live up to its responsibilities as a government by allowing private militias to not only establish state policies, but start wars, suffers in some way by having an outside force to therefore ENSURE such responsibilities occurs, that is the jews plan to annex southern Lebanon. This guy is typical moron, oh and by the way there was no mention of either the doctored photos in the Asia Times, nor the claims that it's Hizballah guilty of war crimes in Qana

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