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...founded - from the lightning preemptive air strikes of June 1967, to the 1976 commando raid that rescued more than 100 hostages from a hijacked airliner at Uganda's Entebbe airport. More importantly, though, Israel has now sent thousands of troops across the border to attack Hizballah strongholds throughout southern Lebanon and clear a "security zone" that may eventually stretch to around three miles inside Lebanese territory. With diplomatic pressure mounting for an end to the fighting, the Israeli military seems to be bringing its campaign to a crescendo aimed at inflicting maximum damage on Hizballah in the campaign's remaining...
...keeping its own forces mobile, rather than trying to hold the towns they have attacked. Digging in would require the establishment of supply lines and logistical support, and offer Hizballah just the sort of sitting-duck Israeli targets on which it thrived during Israel's two-decade occupation of southern Lebanon. Israel lost around 2,000 men in Lebanon over that period - a trauma that can only be understood in proportion to the total population size, i.e., as the equivalent of the U.S. losing 100,000 of its own troops. It has no intention of returning to that particular status...
...areas of intensive bombardment and allow humanitarian aid convoys to enter and distribute food, water and medical supplies. Israeli agreement to the limited suspension came late in the evening. Rice spokesman Adam Ereli, not the Israelis, made the announcement. Hours later, the Israeli military attacked targets in southern Lebanon. Rice said those sorties did not violate the promise because "they tell us it was close air support for forces that were being engaged (and bombing in defense of Israeli ground troops had been exempted...
...weeks of bombardment, Hizballah has lost neither its ability nor its will to fight on. It continues to rain down rockets on Israel, and the tenacity of its guerrilla fighters in engagement with elite Israeli infantry units has made clear that neutralizing it as a fighting force in southern Lebanon would require the sort of massive ground invasion that Israel wants to avoid, because bitter experience has taught it that getting out is infinitely more difficult than going...
SURRENDERED. Johnny Htoo, left, child soldier who, along with twin brother Luther, led a band of ethnic Karen rebels known as God's Army against Burma's military junta in the late 1990s; in southern Burma. Htoo, believed to be about 18 years old today, turned himself in to government forces along with eight fellow rebels earlier this month, according to reports. The brothers, revered by followers who believed they had mystic powers and could not be hurt by bullets or land mines, fled to a Thai refugee camp in 2001, where Luther reportedly still lives with his wife...