Israel given one more week to blast Hizbullah by Bush!

11.04.15am BST (GMT +0100) Wed 19th Jul 2006

I was shocked to read that Bush is effectively allowing Israel one more week to carry on its attacks on Hizbullah before they intervene. If the international community are going to intervene, and they should, it should be now not after another weeks worth of violence (from both sides)!

The Guardian reports that the "US is giving Israel a window of a week to inflict maximum damage on Hizbullah before weighing in behind international calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon, according to British, European and Israeli sources". It goes on the say that "The Bush administration, backed by Britain, has blocked efforts for an immediate halt to the fighting initiated at the UN security council, the G8 summit in St Petersburg and the European foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels."