The IAF has taken to making it very clear that Hezbollah's boasts of a crushing military victory may have been premature:
Israeli fighter jets staged mock raids over Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut and two southern towns on Tuesday in the heaviest show of air power over Lebanon since an August cease-fire ended the war between Israel and the guerrillas. The warplanes dived low over Beirut's southern suburbs at least six times before roaring back into the sky, Lebanese security officials said. In south Lebanon, officials and witnesses reported Israeli planes staging mock raids over the towns of Nabatiyeh and Tyre... The Lebanese army issued a statement saying its gunners fired anti-aircraft artillery at the planes in south Lebanon.
And now we give you France:
France said Tuesday that Israeli overflights of Lebanon's airspace are violations of Lebanese sovereignty and must be stopped. Foreign Ministry spokesman Jean-Baptiste Mattei said the over flights are "contrary to the spirit" of UN Resolution 1701. The resolution calls for both Israel and Lebanon to respect the UN boundary drawn by the United Nations after Israel ended its 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon in 2000.
Hey, you know what else is "contrary to the spirit" of the ceasefire that called on Hezbollah to stop bringing massive amounts of cluster munitions to target at Israeli children into Lebanon? The fact that Hezbollah is still bringing massive amounts of cluster munitions to target at Israeli children into Lebanon. We'd insert a link here to any of the billion stories on MR about how French peacekeepers have committed - as an official policy - to not doing anything about that. But really, we respect you too much to use something that's (a) blindingly obvious and (b) you already know as an excuse to get more impressions.
