Word: southernization
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...which clients her organization serves or what it is doing to evacuate people from Lebanon, saying that “this is quite a sensitive operation as you might imagine.” But in a statement, the group said that its focus is on “Southern Beirut, the Rafik Hariri International airport and the principal road between Beirut and Damascus...
...conflict between Israel and Lebanon began Wednesday when Hezbollah, the militant Shiite group that operates out of southern Lebanon, crossed into Israel and attacked an Israeli military patrol, taking two soldiers as prisoners. Israel retaliated by launching major air strikes...
Events that might see reduced funding next year include Hillel’s popular-themed dinners. Last year, for example, the center hosted a “Southern Comfort” dinner to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina, and also took over Annenberg Hall with “Shabat 1000,” which was attended by then-University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...Syria's departure left a power vacuum in Lebanon that gave Hizballah even greater freedom of action. Before 2000, Syria, which lacks the military strength to go head-to-head with Israel, saw Hizballah's guerrilla war in southern Lebanon as the key leverage behind its own demands that Israel hand back the Golan Heights. It transferred weapons sent from Iran to Hizballah's forward positions along the Israeli border, and created a defensive shield behind which its fighters trained in the Bekaa Valley. But that relationship both enabled and restrained Hizballah, because Israeli or U.S. pressure on and incentives...
...Lebanese government of an act of war, the Israeli government launched a blockade against Lebanon Thursday morning. It started with an air blitz on Rafic Hariri International Airport, stranding hundreds of travelers before they could board scheduled flights. Earlier, Israeli artillery, gunboats and air strikes hit targets in southern Lebanon, including bridges, roads and a power station. Attacks continued at the rate of about one every 10 minutes, according to a Lebanese television channel...