Word: beirutization
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...Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, an expert on Hizballah at the Lebanese-American University in Beirut, predicts that Hizballah's popularity will increase because of the operation. "It will be seen by many as a perfectly legitimate operation because Israel holds Lebanese detainees," she says. "There will be widespread support for this operation in Lebanon and the region...
...justified, with Hizballah's deadly cross-border attack and kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers. And the most vexing challenge for Israel will be determining what and whom to respond against, how far to take it and where to stop: with the Hizballah infrastructure or its leadership? With Lebanon, including Beirut? With Hizballah's backers in Syria, or Tehran...
...Soon after the attack, Israeli artillery and fighter jets began striking targets in southern Lebanon, particularly Hizballah positions, and bridges and roads the abductors might use to move the soldiers away from the border. Planes flew over Beirut as well. By evening, however, it appeared that the soldiers had been either moved away from the border area or secreted away somewhere. "The prisoners have been moved to a safe area," Hizballah said in a statement, without further elaborating...
...Cohen said the Lebanese government has asked for a cease-fire through UNIFIL, the United Nations peacekeeping force stationed in southern Lebanon since the first Israeli withdrawal in 1978. "There will be none until we see our soldiers," Cohen said. He added that Beirut was included in the possible targets in addition to others around Lebanon, but declined to say whether the capital would be attacked. "You'll find out in a few days...
...journalistic style in a newspaper column does not escape me. I only wish Reichl had studied how other journalists have successfully made the leap from 500 words to 50,000. Frank Rich (“Ghost Light”) and Thomas L. Friedman (“From Beirut to Jerusalem”), who are current columnists for the Times, immediately come to mind...