Word: southernization
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Nervously eyeing the skies for Israeli warplanes, Hussein Naboulsi, a spokesman for Hizballah, took quick strides as he accompanied foreign journalists through the bombed-out neighborhoods of Beirut's southern suburbs. "Listen to me!" he shouted. "We have to move very fast!" He paused amid the devastation to point out the pulverized office blocks in the Harat Hreik district where Hizballah's headquarters had stood only a week earlier. "Now I have no place to work," said Naboulsi, the son of a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric...
...LEAVING SOLDIERS IN THE WEST BANK after any withdrawal, Israel might hope to guarantee security on its eastern border. But the same tactic wouldn't work to the north; nobody is going to countenance Israel's occupying a swath of southern Lebanon again (as it did from 1982 to 2000) to deny Hizballah room from which to fire its rockets--least of all Israelis themselves, who are horrified by the idea of a re-occupation. That is why the fourth key to peace is to stabilize Lebanon. In part, that means propping up the fragile government of technocrats...
...This is a war of nerves. Don't be fooled by quiet. Be afraid of it." --KHALID MEHDI, fisherman from Tyre, Lebanon, during a lull in the bombings by Israel that have pounded the town, which is sandwiched between Israel and Hizballah's heartland in southern Lebanon...
...some injuries and great misery." Women and children have been injured and killed by the shelling. To call that "great misery" is a bit understated. As an Israeli living in the San Francisco Bay Area, I wonder how the San Jose police department would react if people in its southern neighborhoods fired missiles at its northern ones. Obviously the Gaza situation is different, but if the Palestinian authorities wish to have full control of their territories, they should act responsibly, the same as any modern country would: by capturing and punishing criminals and other types of evildoers...
...Secretary of State to the region with a mandate and a mission to tackle the problem head on: to achieve a cease fire between the parties, with sequential but not simultaneous exchange of prisoners, with an international undertaking to place troops from major powers in a security zone in southern Lebanon and perhaps even in Gaza and then to use that as the springboard for eventual negotiations. But to achieve the more immediate task, the Secretary of State has to be prepared to stay in the region as long as necessary, as was the case with Kissinger in the early...