From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

I could try & munge the download for further transmission were the beeb
to block non-locals

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/summer_war_lebanon.shtml

"Hundreds of civilians were killed and thousands were made homeless
during the wave of bombings in Lebanon and rocket attacks on Northern
Israel last year. The war started with a border incursion by Hezbollah who
killed 8 Israeli soldiers and snatched two more, prompting a massive
Israeli response. The crisis caught the international community off guard
and everyone became caught up in its mad momentum. Recriminations began
almost immediately.

Edward Stourton has spent the last six months talking to the key players.
He hears from the leaders of Hezbollah in Beirut and from the
decision-makers in Jerusalem; he meets the diplomats from the United
Nations and the people who were trying to broker a peace. What emerges is
an unedifying tale, a tragedy of errors from the moment Hezbollah crossed
the border with Israel to the agreement of Resolution 1701 in New York.

Was there an Israeli-American conspiracy and did America deliberately give
Israel the diplomatic space to continue a war? “What’s wrong with that?”
says John Bolton, then US Ambassador to the UN. “I do not recall anybody
exercising or asking us to exercise caution.” - Danny Ayalon, former
Israeli Ambassador in Washington. "


"John Bolton, former US Ambassador to the UN Margaret Beckett, British
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Dr Kim Howells, British Foreign
Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy, French Foreign Minister Tarek Mitri,
Lebanese Foreign Minister Naim Kassem, Deputy Leader of Hezbollah Bashar
al-Ja'afari, Syrian Ambassador to the UN Terje Roed Larsen, former UN
Secretary General's Special Envoy Dan Gillerman, Israeli Ambassador to the
UN Danny Ayalon, former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Jean Marc
de la Sabliere, French Ambassador to the UN Edward Mortimer, former
Communications Director to the UN Secretary General Sir Emyr Jones-Parry,
British Ambassador to the UN Jan Egeland, former UN Under Secretary General
for Humanitarian Affairs Sir Mark Malloch, former deputy to UN Secretary
General Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Israeli Likud opposition party
Ephraim Sneh, Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Mark Regev, Israeli Foreign
Ministry Spokesman Sheikh Sobhi el Toufayli"

Adam

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