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...eyes of Muslims and Arabs around the world. It was in the thick undergrowth south of this border village that the seeds of the war between Israel and Hizballah were sown. On July 12, a squad of Hizballah fighters slipped across the border under the cover of a rocket barrage to snatch two Israeli soldiers. For Israel, it was one provocation too many from their Shi'ite Lebanese foes, and the order was given for a massive air and ground offensive against Lebanon, the largest since Israel's 1982 invasion. Days after the war began, Israeli forces crossed the border...
...fighting ostensibly triggered by the soldiers' capture has left hundreds of Lebanese killed - mostly civilians, although Hizballah and Israel dispute the number of fighters slain - almost 1 million displaced and Lebanon's economy shattered; it has left 118 Israeli soldiers dead in combat and 39 civilians killed by Hizballah rocket barrages that fell in Israeli cities until the last hours of the month-long war, and forced as many as 1 million Israelis to spend much of that month living in bomb shelters. And yet, as the guns go silent, those two Israeli soldiers remain captives of Hizballah...
...Most important, talk of preventing Hizballah's "return" is moot, because it was never actually driven from southern Lebanon, where many of its fighters remain active despite the presence of some 20,000 Israeli troops in their midst. Israel's more realistic goal, of course, was to eliminate the rocket threat on its northern border. The extent to which that has been achieved remains to be seen: Hizballah was firing rockets until the last day of fighting, but whether it will lose that ability, or simply keep it hidden until a later date, is an open question...
Nasrallah is having a good war. By surviving Israel's aerial onslaught and fighting its army to a standstill, Nasrallah, 46, has staked a claim to being the most popular leader in the Arab world. Nasrallah's fighters have kept up their daily rocket barrages against Israeli cities and towns, keeping his promise to inflict suffering on Israel in return for its bombardment of Lebanon. When Nasrallah went before the cameras on Hizballah-run al-Manar last week, he presented himself as the custodian of Muslim honor. Even his Arab critics are biting their tongues, mindful of the support Nasrallah...
...music show, with a whole lot of talk and laughter in between numbers." DIED. James Van Allen , 91, venerated physicist who discovered that Earth is surrounded by two belts of radiation, which were later named for him; in Iowa City, Iowa. In 1958 Van Allen, below center, with rocket designers William Pickering and Wernher von Braun, posed for one of the iconic photographs of the space age: the three men held a model of Explorer 1 over their heads the night the satellite-the U.S.'s first-went into orbit, four months after Sputnik. In a belated effort...