Word: hizballah
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...Palestinian nationalism. Omar is a butcher, with sinewy forearms, a black mustache and sad, dark eyes. He buys his meat from Jews and counts several of them as his friends. "They live in Haifa, and I was worried about them during the war last summer when the Hizballah rockets were falling," he says. "I told them that they could stay with us!" Omar likes the novel idea of his Jewish buddies taking shelter inside a Palestinian refugee camp, and I ask him if Jews and Palestinians are so different. No, he says. They're both smart, they value education...
...have taken their disaffection in a direction hardly imaginable in 1967. Let down by the secular Old Guard, younger Palestinians are turning to radical Islam as an alternative. In the West Bank, shops sell DVDs of Iraqi insurgent attacks against U.S. troops and songs of praise for the Lebanese Hizballah militia leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah for withstanding Israel's siege of Lebanon last summer. The last words of suicide bombers, preserved by video cameras, are given play on local TV news. As a youngster, Omar threw stones at Israeli tanks and ran away; youngsters of the new generation seek...
...other mainstream Palestinian factions such as the original Fatah group, whose Lebanon representative Sultan Abul Ainain warned "there will be uprisings in all the camps in Lebanon" if the army's indiscriminate shelling of the camp at Nahr al-Bared did not cease. Such a confrontation risks pulling in Hizballah, which, although a Shi'ite group, is closely allied with Sunni Palestinian factions such as Hamas. With Lebanon balanced on a knife-edge, many fear that unrest could cause the country to stumble back into the civil war that ravaged it between 1975-90, itself ignited amid friction involving armed...
...innocents fleeing the fighting, tough young men toting huge guns - popped up on TV screens and newspapers around the world, so the sense that fate decrees nothing but tears for Lebanon took root once again. Not even one year after a vicious war between Israel and the militants of Hizballah, which devastated whole regions of the south and Shi'ite neighborhoods of Beirut, Lebanon seemed once more to be at the mercy of the gun. The government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora believes that the sudden surge of violence is linked to moves by members of the United Nations Security...
Syria, Lebanese officials contend, is attempting to derail U.N. efforts to set up a tribunal that could try Syrian officials implicated in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. If that's true, Lebanon, a year after the Israel-Hizballah war, could experience another scorching summer...