Word: hizballah
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...fighting between Israel and Hizballah forces in southern Lebanon raged, our reporting sized up Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's strategy, peered into Hizballah's inner workings and outlined six keys to peace. Readers were polarized in their criticism of the warring parties and their respective allies...
...Would negotiations with Iran and Hizballah persuade them to give up their attempts to wipe Israel off the map? I doubt that. History teaches us that it is important to believe the declared intentions of megalomaniacs. Jeffrey Fillman Boston...
...would be nice if once, just once, the world stood by Israel and supported its actions. This time the main criticism seems to be that Israel's reaction has not been proportional. What is proportional? Should Israel have kidnapped two Hizballah fighters in return? Would that have resolved anything? While there are extremists on all sides, the majority of Israelis, Palestinians and Lebanese want to live in peace with one another. We will be able to lead normal, quiet lives only if we stand up to terrorists. Illana Karman Beersheba, Israel...
...Hizballah's kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers gives Israel the right to bomb Lebanon, destroy bridges, blow up an international airport, blockade ports and tell people to leave their homes, then why is it wrong for Hizballah to launch rockets into Israel? Since this war started, far more Lebanese civilians have been killed than have Hizballah militants. The war needs to end now. There must be a cease-fire before even more innocents die. Sara Faruqiv Karachi, Pakistan...
...States. After all, the strategy Iran pursues today - backing Islamic militant groups, keeping Iraq in a state of controlled chaos, and playing to the Arab/Sunni street with anti-U.S., anti-Israel rhetoric - is both risky and near-sighted. It is a strategy that rests on regional instability (on Hizballah never being disarmed, on Syria and the Palestinians never reaching accord with Israel, on Iraq remaining chaotic), and on discrediting and bogging down the U.S. in Iraq, to keep its sights off Iran. Tehran's real, long-term interests would be better served by a stable Middle East, especially...