Word: hizbullah
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Recently, there has been a very serious escalation in the war between Israel and Hizbullah terrorists in Lebanon. The situation is frightening: Israeli civilians are hiding in bomb shelters fearing another round of Katyusha rocket attacks, soldiers have been wounded and killed, while several Lebanese civilians have been wounded and many others are without electricity after an Israeli air-bombing of major power plants...
...unfortunate state of affairs, we must understand that there is a lot more to the story. The Israeli security zone exists in southern Lebanon to protect Israeli civilians from terrorist attacks originating in Lebanon. The recent air strikes were in response to the serious escalation in terrorist activity of Hizbullah and other organizations in south Lebanon over the past two weeks. According to the Associated Press, within the eight days prior to the strike, five Israeli soldiers were killed and 12 more wounded in Hizbullah attacks. These terrorists attacks, according to CNN reports, were launched from within Lebanese villages, using...
...commonly known, the major power broker in Lebanon is Syria, the true occupying power in Lebanon. Indeed, after the recent Hizbullah terrorist attacks, Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright called Syria and requested that they put a stop to the terrorism in Lebanon. We agree with the SAS that the current state of affairs is tragic. We call upon them to join us in protest against Syria and the terrorist organizations within Lebanon that it supports, according to the Feb. 14 edition of the New York Times. The Syrians are hurting the interests of both the Israelis and Lebanese civilians...
While no election in Israel is insignificant, this one is particularly critical. Quite simply, Israel stands at a crossroads. The peace process with the Palestinians is at a stalemate. Israel's conflict in south Lebanon with the Syrian backed, Iranian-funded Hizbullah has reached a pitched crescendo. Internally, the economy is in the midst of a slippery slide, while fault-lines between religious and secular, Ashkenazi and Sephardi (Jews of European origin vs. Jews of mid-Eastern origin), political left and political right, are tremoring towards earthquake. The new prime minister will be charged with arbitrating these complex, seemingly intractable...
...Lebanese Foreign Minister Farez Buez, who said that Israel should learn a lesson from the helicopter crash, and realize that it is time to leave southern Lebanon. He said the occupation of southern Lebanon had cost Israel more than all the war with the Arabs. The head of Hizbullah, Sheikh Naim Kassem, said, "The crash was a success granted...