Word: hizballah
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...back to normal after the summer's war. Central Beirut, whose sidewalk cafes are usually packed with Arab tourists in August, is still a ghost town. But Lebanese families and gaggles of teenagers have reclaimed the promenade along the Mediterranean Sea, escaping the humidity and trading stories about the Hizballah-Israel conflict that recently left so much of their country in ruins...
...another popular subject. That's the story of the Lebanese shopkeeper who was reportedly abducted by Israeli forces, held for several weeks and eventually handed over to the Red Cross - all apparently in a case of mistaken identity. His name is Hassan Nasrallah, the same as the leader of Hizballah...
...weeks ago. As with past troubles in Lebanon, hopes for peace are bound up in wider regional, even global, disputes, like the Arab-Israeli conflict as well as the international standoff over Iran's nuclear program. Most importantly, Lebanese worry that while Resolution 1701 suited the immediate needs of Hizballah and Israel in its call for a cease-fire, it satisfied the central demands of neither...
...Israel is fighting a war deliberately provoked by Iran and Syria via terrorist organizations (Hizballah and Hamas) that aim to eliminate the sole legitimate democracy in that part of the world [July 31]. Instead of blaming Israel, Western democracies should stand up for it, because they will be the next targets of terrorism. What have the U.N. and the West done to secure peace in the six years since Israel pulled out of Lebanon? Nothing, except allow Hizballah to build up its military. It is scandalous and hypocritical to demand that Israel forfeit its right to destroy Hizballah. Philippe Luginbuhl...
...Your photographs of the destruction in Lebanon took me back to World War II and images of the devastation in Europe. But sadder still were the pictures of the young boys in Hizballah's al-Mahdi scout club being taught to hate their fellow man. They are being robbed of their childhood and often their life too, all in the name of religion. Derek J. Waite Toronto As the saying goes, it is better to allow 1,000 criminals to go free than convict one innocent person. But the Israelis have turned that maxim on its head: they seem...