ISRAEL: IF HIZBALLAH IS NOT DISARMED - AS UNSCR 1701 DEMANDS - THEN IT WILL RESUME COUNTER-ATTACK

THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR:

The IDF will have to resume operations in Lebanon if the expanded United Nations force being assembled does not fulfill its obligation to dismantle Hizbullah, an official in the Prime Minister's Office warned on Tuesday.

Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah reportedly reached a deal allowing Hizbullah to keep its weapons but refrain from exhibiting them in public. Israeli officials called the arrangement a violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which passed over the weekend and was approved on Sunday by the cabinet.

"The resolution is clear that Hizbullah needs to be removed from the border area, embargoed and dismantled," the official said. "If the resolution is not implemented, we will have to take action to prevent the rearming of Hizbullah. I don't think backtracking will serve any useful purpose. There has to be pressure on Hizbullah to disarm or there will have to be another round."

THE WAR WILL RESUME, AND THIS TIME NEITHER FAUXTOGRAPHY NOR PRO-JIHADI DIPLOMACY WILL WORK: THE IDF WILL BE RELENTLESS AND UNBRIDLED AND THE WAR WON'T END UNTIL THE ENEMY IS VANQUISHED.

(And after that victory - in retrospect - the cease-fire will be regarded as a blunder, an example of "premature evacuation" by the West.)