The media can sometimes make too much out of anniversaries, or retrospectives, (especially one-year "anniversaries") but they do give us a chance to stop and really consider how particular events changed a person, or a group, or a region of the world. I was surprised the other day to hear that it's already been a year since Israel and Hezbollah fought in Lebanon. On July 12, 2006, Hezbollah seized two Israeli soldiers in Shtula, Israel. In response, the Israeli military launched attacks against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, and promised to continue bombing until Hezbollah disarmed. One year later, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is politically weaker and more unpopular than ever. In Lebanon, large portions of the country have yet to be rebuilt, and Hezbollah continues to wrestle Beirut for influence in the country. Of course, nothing in the Middle East happens in a vacuum. And the fighting echoed through the region. So, one year later, what's changed? We'll talk with Rami Khouri in Beirut, and with Hirsh Goodman in Jerusalem.
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What are your respective opinions in regards to the political path that Hezbollah is headed down? Where do you see Hezbollah in the years to come, and is their standpoint likely to evolve into something more ambitious?
My favorite is Hudson Hawk with Bruce Willis trying to stay out of jail, the references to Candy bars(KitKat etc. were very funny along with the intrigue of DaVinci...
I think it's sad the militants put others in harms way. It's to bad that Lebanon was so weak that they couldn't kick out the militants who had interest not with the country they occupy. They always say they will fight to the death with no regards with the innocent people living around them who don't want to fight to the death but just live and farm and have no political interests.
Maybe if the U.N. and the World Courts would say or pass a law that if militants place themselves in populations those populations can be considered as militants also thus be fired on for being complacent and letting the militants set up their hardware and use them as human shields.
They are as much as at fault as the militants.
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