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...Fourth, stop permitting Mideast powers to arm and fund terrorist groups like Hezbollah (armed by Iran) and Hamas (funded by the Saudi elite). Intercept shipments of arms and block transfers of funds, and if you cannot do so, share intelligence with Israel so that...
...militants' strategy takes its cue from Lebanon, where Hezbollah's low-intensity war eventually forced Israel out by rendering the cost of remaining there unbearable. Of course, Israel is a lot more invested in the West Bank than it was in Lebanon - for one thing, up to 200,000 Israelis have settled there since the territory was captured in 1967. Also, the Palestinians lack the ready access to sophisticated weaponry Hezbollah enjoyed throughout its 18-year campaign. But the Israeli Defense Force was a lot less vulnerable in Lebanon than it may soon be in the West Bank and Gaza...
...West Bank and Gaza by making the cost of remaining there too high. Recent months have seen a sharp increase in suicide bombings, and the Qassam-2 allows militants to strike inside Israel without having to cross heavily policed boundaries. Rocket attacks reminiscent of those used by Hezbollah in its protracted war that eventually forced Israel to withdraw from Lebanon two years ago underline what Israeli commentators have called the "Lebanization" of the conflict...
...rocket attacks leave Israel facing a major dilemma. Hamas won't be deterred by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's vow that any rocket attacks from the West Bank would be "an act of war to which there would be a massive response." According the Hezbollah playbook, such a response would be welcome, since it could increase the suffering of Palestinian civilians and increase support for militant groups...
...lost on Israelis is the fact that this has begun to equalize the casualty count between the two sides, compared with the early days of the current uprising in which Palestinian deaths outnumbered Israelis' by five-to-one or more. Palestinian militants have begun to adopt the strategies that Hezbollah used to drive Israel out of Lebanon, hoping to maintain a steady casualty count that will eventually become politically unsustainable for the Israelis and force a retreat from the West Bank and Gaza...