Word: hezbollah
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Simon and Hillel Executive Director Bernard Steinberg said at the time that the trip’s itinerary would be changed to avoid the northern parts of the country, including the city of Haifa, where Hezbollah rocket attacks have been common...
...Students from Haifa have been arriving on campus in waves this week as Hezbollah rockets continue to destroy homes and kill civilians there. One student told me she was awakened one recent morning by a Katyusha rocket. She and her friends, following directions broadcasted over loudspeakers, quickly moved into the bomb shelter in their dormitory. After 50 hours they emerged, packed up their belongings, and drove south...
...Every week, our teacher brings copies of a newspaper written in “easy” Hebrew and asks us to translate the headlines. “Life in the North Is Paralyzed.” “Hezbollah Still Has Thousands of Missiles.” “Soldier Killed in Nablus.” We have studied the vocabulary, but it is not at all easy to read these sentences. Nevertheless, the words we encounter in the newspaper and the expressions and slang that have come out of the Israeli army over the years...
...This latest campaign of terror against Israel, carried out by Hezbollah and Hamas and supported by Iran and Syria, has exploded into a costly war for both sides. Israel has known many wars, and Israeli university students—most of whom just completed their mandatory three-year army service—can recite the years of the major conflicts by heart: 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982. I wonder how many American university students can give the years of the Korean War or the Vietnam...
...large, Israelis believe—and I agree—that “peace time” is not possible as long as terrorist organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas exist. The reason is that these groups invest more resources in killing Jews than in improving their own communities. The consensus, therefore, is that there will be no “peace time” any time soon...