Cease Fire In Israeli/Hezbollah Conflict Off?

Hmm...

Crucial Lebanese cabinet talks on disarming Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon under a UN-brokered ceasefire have been put off.

A truce between Israel and Hezbollah is due to come into force at 0500 GMT.

The postponement, amid reported divisions, seriously complicates the establishment of a stable ceasefire, the BBC's Nick Childs in Beirut says.

Israel's cabinet has backed the truce, but says its forces will not leave until peacekeepers are deployed.

Mark Malloch Brown, the UN's Deputy Secretary General, said it might take a month before a joint UN-Lebanese force was fully in place.

"It's going to be weeks, not days and may even, before you hit the full total, be a month or so," he told the BBC's Have Your Say programme.

Lebanon's faltering is for one clearly obvious reason: The cease fire requires that the Lebanese army disarm Hezbollah, and the Lebanese leaders don't think their military is capable of it. And they're right. They aren't capable of it.

Which is exactly why Israel had no business agreeing to this cease fire in the first place. And certainly they have no business honoring the cease fire until Lebanon at least tries to hold up their end of the bargain. Something that apparently isn't going to happen for another month or so.

But as I've pointed out before, this cease fire is no solution to the root problems at the heart of this conflict. The only way this conflict is going to end is if Israel is allowed to complete its mission against Hezbollah and actually defeat those terrorists. Decisively. Once and for all.