Word: hizballah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hizballah, the pro-Iranian Shi'ite Muslims in Lebanon, have been firing rockets into Israel. Since you have disarmed other militias in Lebanon, why haven't you disarmed Hizballah...
...This question should be directed to Hizballah. I am not a member...
Consider recent events in Lebanon, which is effectively under Syrian control. Earlier this month, the Israelis displayed relative restraint in responding to rocket assaults on its frontier communities by guerrillas of the militant Shi'ite group Hizballah. Syria eventually put a clamp on the attacks. Significantly, neither side broke away from the Middle East negotiations in Washington...
...full-fledged peace and a peace treaty that will stand on its own. Many Israelis wonder how Syria can be involved in the peace negotiations while allowing rejectionist Palestinian organizations with headquarters in Damascus to call for the Palestinians to withdraw from those negotiations. Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control...
Despite the flare-up back home, the Washington negotiators continued to plod along in relatively civil discussions. Israel charged that Syria, the dominant power in Lebanon, could stop Hizballah violence if it tried. The Palestinians decried Israel's attack on a refugee camp in north Lebanon that Jerusalem claims is a base for terrorism. Still, all parties have apparently invested too much in a year of negotiations to quit over what is a regular cycle of skirmishing in southern Lebanon...