Word: guerrillaism
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...Iran-backed guerrilla movement whose war of attrition forced Israel to leave Lebanon is the big winner in the new situation, enjoying acclaim throughout their own country and the wider Arab world as the first Arab army ever to drive Israel from Arab territory. Having won the battle for which it was created in the early '80s, the Shiite guerrilla movement now has to find a new purpose...
...relations with its neighbors. The last Israelis departed before dawn Wednesday, as the collapse of their Lebanese Christian proxy army forced Prime Minister Ehud Barak to speed up the withdrawal plan. Even more worrying to the Israeli leader than the spectacle of his troops retreating under fire and Hezbollah guerrillas dancing triumphantly atop tanks abandoned by his Lebanese allies is the fact that the vacuum left by Israel has been filled by a guerrilla movement implacably hostile to the Jewish state and emboldened by what it sees as its defeat of the Israeli occupation...
...Lebanon, meanwhile, an offensive by Hezbollah had by Monday sliced Israel's southern Lebanon occupation zone in half, leaving hundreds of Israeli-allied militiamen stranded as the guerrillas pressed their attack to ensure that the Israelis are seen to be retreating under duress. The Lebanese guerrilla outfit is being championed throughout the Arab world as the first army ever to liberate Arab territory from Israel by force of arms, but nowhere more so than among the Palestinian youths venting their frustration with stones and gasoline bombs. In response to their, and Hezbollah?s efforts, Barak at the weekend recalled...
...Cutting Fujimori loose would be a tough decision for the U.S. in light of the high praise he earned during his first two terms for eliminating much of his country's cocaine production, smashing the leftist guerrilla insurgencies of the Shining Path and the Tupac Amaru movements, and reining in hyperinflation. "Despite its previous support of Fujimori, the U.S. has become concerned that he has, over the past year, resorted to increasingly populist and authoritarian measures to ensure that he stays in power, including rewriting the constitution to allow himself a third term in office," says McGirk...
...take risks by pursuing the more aggressive policing duties without which the situation won't be stabilized." A year after NATO's military victory, violence between Kosovar Albanians and Serbs has not been eliminated, and a violent turf war among leaders of the former KLA guerrilla movement is claiming a growing number of victims. "Never mind the fear that Milosevic would come back in; if the U.S. leaves the Albanians would eat each other for lunch," says Calabresi. "Realistically, the U.S. troops are going to be in Kosovo forever unless someone starts doing something serious about nation-building there...