The Israeli War of Aggression

An Israeli ministerial panel decided Wednesday to officially name last year’s 33 days of combat with the Lebanese Hezbollah movement “the Second Lebanon War,” its chairman announced.

‘Damn proud’

Mr Bolton, a controversial and blunt-speaking figure, said he was “damned proud of what we did” to prevent an early ceasefire.  The former ambassador to the UN also admitted that the Lebanon truce was blocked by the US. John Bolton told the BBC that before any ceasefire Washington wanted Israel to eliminate Hezbollah’s military capability.

UN special envoy Terje Roed Larsen

“There were many not – how should I put it – resistant to the thought that the Israelis should thoroughly defeat Hezbollah, who… increasingly by Arab states were seen as an Iranian proxy.”