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...trickier. The Israelis have only 23 Lebanese prisoners to trade, most of them seized in last month's fighting. So far, The ICRC has received no response from Israeli authorities on its demands for access to alleged Hizballah prisoners. To strengthen their bargaining hand, the Israelis carried out a commando raid in Baalbek valley, seizing five members of the Nasrallah family - assuming they belonged to the same family as Hizballah chief Hasan Nasrallah. But when they learned that the captive Nasrallahs were not related to the Hizballah leader - one was a greengrocer, another a plasterer - the Israelis sent them back...
...just how fragile the peace can be became clear last weekend when a gunfight erupted in Lebanon's central Bekaa Valley only days after Resolution 1701 was adopted. Israel said that a commando operation was aimed at preventing a fresh shipment of arms from reaching Hizballah guerrillas. Hizballah officials believe that the commandos sought to abduct or kill Sheikh Mohammed Yazbek, a prominent Shi'ite cleric and Hizballah official with close ties to Iran...
...During one especially difficult landing in 2004, a retired American cop wouldn't stop screaming "Oh, God! Oh, God!" I finally had to slap him on the face--on instructions from the flight attendant. Another time the man in the window seat was a muscular, heavily tattooed Polynesian ex-commando who spent an hour telling me of his life as a mercenary in a succession of South Pacific island nations--stories that often ended with his punching, stabbing or shooting somebody. When the Fokker began its steep descent, he began whimpering to Jesus and grabbing my forearm so tight...
...that reason, the U.S. and Israel need to transform both the reality on the battlefield and the view of the outcome before any kind of truce takes effect. Israeli commando forces staged a raid in Baalbek, deep inside Hizballah's heartland, overnight Wednesday, capturing five of the organization's fighters in an operation that may have been designed to boost Israel's morale by recalling the bold audacity of raids deep inside enemy territory on which Israelis' confidence in their military is founded - from the lightning preemptive air strikes of June 1967, to the 1976 commando raid that rescued more...
...possible scenario is that one night, with the lights out and roads down, there could be an opportunity to stage a commando raid of some sort on a suspected hideout, if one can be located. Still, nothing much is clear right now, aside from the threat looming over Gaza - and the already fragile state of Israeli-Palestinian relations...