Word: lebanons
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Approximately 20 students attended a brunch discussion in the Lowell House private dining room yesterday to talk about the current conflict in southern Lebanon...
Students addressed the possibility that Israel's has gone too far by bombing Lebanon's infrastructure, the impact of Israeli domestic politics on the military operations, the growing uncertainty among Arabs as to Israel's commitment to peace and the often forgotten impact of Israeli operations on the Lebanese people...
Participants asked why Lebanon would still want to make peace with Israel, whether Hezbollah's activities in southern Lebanon were legitimate and if the destruction of Israel was still part of Hezbollah's political platform...
Disagreements formed almost entirely along ethnic lines about how much Israel had already given to Palestinians and what the results of an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon might...
Secondly, I would like to dispute the authors' portrayal of Hezbollah as an organization dedicated only to freeing Southern Lebanon from Israeli occupation. Hezbollah is a violent organization which denies Israel's basic right to exist. Funded by Iran and at least tolerated by Syria, Hezbollah is a major player in a much broader struggle against the existence of Israel and must be treated as such. The history of Israel's involvement in Lebanon is long and complicated. Israel does not occupy the security zone in Southern Lebanon out of territorial ambition. The zone is a temporary buffer against...