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...result of this diplomatic vacuum, the only factor constraining the behavior of the various parties has been their mutual fear. Israel has been worried that Hizballah might launch Katyusha rockets on Haifa, Syria that Israel might wipe out its army or regime, Hamas and Hizballah that their entire leadership could become fair game. But such apprehension always was at most a feeble restraint, because in an unregulated environment, the only thing more costly than disregarding one's fears is displaying them. In the past weeks, that last and flimsy inhibition finally gave way. The conflict no longer is about achieving...
...Kranefuss vividly remembers the nerve-racking launch of his exchange-traded fund IWM six years ago. As a top exec of Barclays Global Investors, Kranefuss held out big hopes for IWM, which tracks the benchmark index of small U.S. companies known as the Russell 2000. "I thought it could come out of the gate with huge trading volume, and it didn't," he says. Indeed, the fund languished for nearly four tortuous years...
Israel withdrew its armed forces from southern Lebanon in 2000 after a 22-year military presence there. Since that time, Hezbollah has continued to launch rockets at towns in northern Israel...
...timing? You never set any timing on an opportunity like this... I would certainly not select the present time. Because Nissan sales are down in the United States and they will be down for the next couple of months. They will start to pick up in October with the launch of many new products coming into the hot segments of the market, like the Centra and the Altima and the G35, etc. But, you know, you can't time an opportunity. An opportunity comes and you are just going to have to say yes or no. And we said...
...Professor Galia Golan, Professor of Government at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya believes that, for the moment, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will have widespread popular support to launch a strong response, since the attack was unprovoked and will naturally heighten the sense of a nation that will never be accepted by its neighbors...