Word: beirutization
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...contrast with Israel's last major incursion into Lebanon couldn't be more stark. Back in 1982, when Israel launched a full-scale invasion of Lebanon to drive out the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) then controlling south Lebanon, the Israeli army smashed through the Palestinian lines and reached Beirut in just nine days. But after nearly a month of fighting Hizballah, Israeli troops have advanced only a few miles at the most into Lebanon. And despite saturation air coverage with reconnaissance drones, helicopters and jets as well as multiple air strikes and heavy artillery bombardments and -in the past...
...symmetry in the responses to the plan from the protagonists: While Israeli leaders are generally satisfied with the proposal, Lebanon and Hizballah complain that it imposes an unacceptable outcome. U.S.-backed Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora denounced the proposal in an emotional address to Arab diplomats in Beirut on Monday, warning that it could not end the violence...
...Meanwhile, the religious balance of Beirut is shifting. Neighborhoods in the swish Christian side of the city have become Gucci ghost towns as their owners head for summer homes in the hills. In Muslim West Beirut, the streets are doubled parked with out-of-town cars, and there are more hijabs than high heels on Hamra street...
...Harat Hreik, Hizballah's stronghold in south Beirut, the fighters in black are back in force after two weeks of hiding in bunkers. They patrol the neighborhood on scooters like a mini-motocross militia, separating the would-be looters from families who have returned to inspect the damage. Suddenly, the battered blocks echo with celebratory gunfire as the rumor spreads that a Hizballah missile has hit an Israeli warship in Tyre. Fearing a retaliatory strike, the families leave...
...20th day of the air campaign, the Israeli air force had finished the relatively easy part of the job, blasting away most of Hizballah's larger long-range missiles. Many of them, Col. A. says, were kept in Hizballah arsenals in Beirut. "We have fewer big targets left," he says, adding that Israeli warplanes were able to take out a long-range missile launcher just three minutes after one of its rockets hit south of the Haifa seaport...