Word: hizballah
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...Israel really believed its fiery campaign against Hizballah in South Lebanon would help turn the local population against the militant Shi'ite group, all indications are that the death and destruction being rained down is having quite the opposite effect. That much was painfully clear Wednesday after an Israeli jet returned to bomb the center of this - until now - relatively safe coastal town for the first time in 10 days, and a new generation of Hizballah supporters was born...
...entrance to the narrow, rubble-strewn street, gazing initially in wide-eyed awe at the smoke-filled scene before them. Then they too were stirred by fury. ?With our souls and our blood we will sacrifice ourselves for you, O Nasrallah,? they chanted in homage to Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Hizballah?s leader. ?Death to Israel and America,? yelled another man standing on a slab of concrete above the crowd...
...international force is needed to pull Israel's chestnuts out of the fire, then those who would constitute it - along with Hizballah and its backers - would likely have a substantial say in determining the nature of the truce it would enforce. Indeed, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, speaking in Rome, urged the inclusion of both Iran and Syria in the search for a deal to permanently end hostilities across the Israel-Lebanon border...
...hardly surprising, then, that there's been no rush of volunteers. More important, European officials are insisting that troops would be sent only once there is a cease-fire agreed to by Hizballah - a cease-fire that would, of course, be very different from the one envisaged by the Bush Administration, which is, in effect, seeking Hizballah's military surrender...
...response to the crisis, and the battle in Lebanon will continue to rage for some time yet. But it is becoming clear both on the battlefield and in the diplomatic arena that the U.S. and Israel are unlikely to achieve the knockout blow they'd hoped to deliver against Hizballah. The question that will be settled, both on the battlefield and in the chambers of diplomacy in the coming days, is which side will have to concede more in the cease-fire that will ultimately take shape...