Thursday, December 7, 2006

Are Israel and Hizballah Squaring Off to Fight Again?

Last summer's truce has done little to remove the Hizballah military threat on Israel's northern border, and that may soon become intolerable to the Jewish state

By TIM MCGIRK/BEIRUT AND AARON J. KLEIN/BIRANIT

Through a pair of high-powered binoculars, an Israeli officer scans the Lebanese side of Israel's northern border. Three shepherds and 20 goats come into his view, moving across an olive grove. It seems like an innocent pastoral scene until the Israeli notices that one of the shepherds is speaking into a walkie-talkie, while another is staring back at the Israeli through his own state-of-the art binoculars. They are Hizballah, and they're stalking back, along the Lebanese-Israeli border

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Source: TIME.com: Are Israel and Hizballah Squaring Off to Fight Again? -- Page 1

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