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...says a French diplomatic official, "you may lend your arguments more force, but it may also start undermining your support and credibility with people who won't agree with that commingling." Plus, encouraging Israel's continued onslaught puts the U.S. in the position of being blamed for mounting Lebanese civilian deaths...
...past three weeks, Israel, with its enormous edge in weaponry, has tried one approach: crushing Hizballah militarily. But the group's estimated 1,000 to 4,000 active fighters have managed to inflict surprising casualties on Israeli forces in Lebanon and to keep firing hundreds of rockets on civilian targets as far as 30 miles into Israel. Along the Lebanese border, as Israeli intelligence drones the size of model airplanes whined overhead, an Israeli army major sent to reassess tactics was grimly impressed. "Nobody here looks down on Hizballah," he says. "This is their home, they're the defenders...
...Captain Mitch Pilcer, because "some of these Lebanese are our allies, and if they come back to a flattened town, they might turn around and join Hizballah." Indeed, although Christian, Druze and some other factions in Lebanon were furious at Hizballah for instigating the war and hiding weapons in civilian neighborhoods that then suffer Israeli retaliation, polls show that the group's overall popularity in Lebanon and the Arab world has risen...
...health minister in Lebanon told the Associated Press yesterday that the civilian death toll in Lebanon is believed to have reached 600, with 382 confirmed dead and the rest buried under rubble or missing...
...Hizballah is proving far more resilient than Israeli military commanders had expected: Aerial bombardment has failed to dislodge Hizballah fighters, or to prevent them from continuing to rain rockets down on Israel's civilian population centers. Israel has therefore committed ground forces that have fought fierce battles (with substantial Israeli casualties) for control of Hizballah positions at Maroun al-Ras, Bint Jebeil and a handful of smaller villages. But Israeli Defense Force officials say there are at least 170 more such Hizballah strongholds throughout southern Lebanon, and they admit that Israel would have to occupy the territory...