Word: hizballah
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...made "thousands of mistakes" in Iraq. But here in the region, there's little sign that the Americans have learned from those mistakes and tried to correct them. There is a widespread view in these parts that the Bush Administration pushed the Israelis to go to war against Hizballah even though the Israelis were clearly not prepared for the campaign. The result, of course, was that Hizballah and its allies have been strengthened politically, while the U.S. and its supporters in the region have been weakened...
...Bank, while Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) party is better known for advocating a policy of revoking the citizenship of Israel's Arab minority. Still, despite the many risks, there are also potential gains for the beleaguered Prime Minister. Having failed to score a decisive victory over Hizballah and with the conflicts in Lebanon and Gaza having frozen his West Bank withdrawal plan (and, it was reported Tuesday, now facing investigation by Israel's State Prosecutor into allegations of wrongdoing in the course of the state's sale of its controlling interest in a major bank...
...preempt the Yisrael Beiteinu leader from coupling with his one-time mentor and leader of the Likud opposition, former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. While the move maintains the primacy of Olmert's Kadima party, some questioned how a Prime Minister already under fire for his management of the Hizballah war could hand Lieberman, who has no military or intelligence background, a position that carries at least some responsibility for watching Iran, which many Israeli leaders identify as their country's greatest threat...
...many times does it take for us to learn? Nothing of any seriousness comes out of the U.N. On Sudan's Darfur genocide, Iran's nuclear-weapons development, Saddam Hussein's defiance of 17 U.N. resolutions, Hizballah's defiance of at least three, the U.N. does nothing. Not because the U.N. bureaucracy, its member states or their diplomats are corrupt or evil. Corrupt and evil many of them are, but the reason the U.N. is hopeless is that the central idea it was supposed to embody--"collective security"--is an illusion...
...confine its targets to Israelis. In this scenario, Hamas would likely seek support from Iran and international jihadists, whose anti-American agendas might increasingly shape Hamas's own. Israeli officials say Iran recently offered to train Hamas in the weapons and tactics used to such lethal effect by the Hizballah fighters who held their own against Israeli forces in Lebanon over the summer. Israel's Shin Bet security service also claims that Hamas had smuggled over 19 tons of explosives into Gaza...