Word: hizballah
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...that concern has proven justified, with Hizballah's deadly cross-border attack and kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers. And the most vexing challenge for Israel will be determining what and whom to respond against, how far to take it and where to stop: with the Hizballah infrastructure or its leadership? With Lebanon, including Beirut? With Hizballah's backers in Syria, or Tehran...
...Under normal circumstances - if such a thing can be said to exist in this conflict - such denunciations of an Israeli attack would have flowed from around the world. But Hizballah moved that story away from the headlines and instead drew the brunt of international criticism, most vocally from western governments and the U.N.; U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in Paris for talks on Iran, issued a statement calling on Syria to use its influence to help resolve the incident peacefully...
...didn't take long for a link between Hizballah's raid and the events in Gaza to be established."In order to fulfill a promise to free the prisoners and detainees, the Islamic Resistance captured at 9:05 a.m. two Israeli soldiers at the borders with occupied Palestine," Hizballah said in a statement. They offered a deal - Shalit and the two new Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian and Hizballah prisoners in Israeli jails. Later in the day, Hizballah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said the Israeli soldiers "will only return home through indirect negotiations and an exchange of prisoners...
...attack itself began around nine o'clock with Hizballah's traditional cross-border tactic - rockets and mortars launched from southern Lebanon began raining down on northern Israel. Then, in the ensuing chaos, a number of Hizballah foot soldiers crossed the border and ambushed a two-vehicle Israeli military patrol, killing three of the soldiers and dragging two others back into Lebanon. The attack was clearly planned in advance. The militants struck at a spot obscured from a nearby watchtower, and when a tank pursued them across the border soon after, explosives planted in the ground destroyed it. The four soldiers...
...Olmert quickly labeled the attack an "act of war" and warned that not just Hizballah but all of Lebanon and its government - to which Hizballah belongs - would be held responsible. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni called it an act of "unprovoked aggression" by a "terrorist organization, which is part of the Lebanese government." In a statement, she charged that Hizballah, Hamas, Syria and Iran represented "an axis of terror and hate," that "wants to end any hope for peace ... in these circumstances, Israel has no alternative but to defend itself and its citizens...