Word: hizballah
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...Israel also ratcheted up the rhetoric, with Defense Minister Amir Peretz warning on Monday that every vehicle carrying a Hizballah-bound weapon from Syria would be targeted. Still, despite the mounting tension, neither side is looking for a fight...
...front with Syria.") "This is not a fight Olmert is looking for at the moment," says Eyal Zisser, head of the Middle East History Department at Tel Aviv University. The IDF would undoubtedly win, he says. But badly needed resources and attention would be diverted from the battle with Hizballah in southern Lebanon. Israelis don't want to embark on a regime-change experiment when the most likely replacement at this point is an Islamic theocracy...
...Masnaa crossing between Lebanon and Syria at least three times, temporarily shutting down a major road-route to and from Lebanon for the first time since the current conflict began. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) attacks destroyed buildings at the site, as well as what they said was a Hizballah-bound arms shipment, which the Lebanese claimed was part of a relief convoy. And, on Sunday, a landmine was triggered - perhaps accidentally, perhaps deliberately - along the Syrian boundary with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, near Quneitra. No injuries were reported...
...While young people sporting the ubiquitous T-shirts bearing the image of Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah have expressed their anger on Syria's streets, the official media was somewhat mute on events in Lebanon. In the capital the first night the border was bombed, cabdrivers and caf? owners knew about the hits, but they were not reported on the state-run media - typically the first to run with lurid tales of alleged Israeli aggression. Although the regime benefits domestically from its identification with the popular Hizballah, it can't afford to be dragged into war by an outraged public...
...growing challenge facing coalition forces in stabilizing Iraq. "If we are to avoid a descent into civil war and anarchy," Patey warned, "then preventing the Jaish al-Mahdi [the Mahdi Army of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Sadr] from developing into a state within a state, as Hizballah has done in Lebanon, will be a priority...