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 [Counterterrorismblog.org] Counterterrorism Blog: The Battle of Bint Jubayl and Hezbollah's Army: The Lebanese coastal city of Tyre (also referred to as Sour) has "has steadily fallen more and more under Hezbollah's influence since the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, and rocket launchers in the city are hitting the city of Haifa and the northern Israeli towns. Israeli air strikes have been focusing on the city, but a steady barrage of about 100 missiles continue to fall in Israeli territory each day.

 [Blogsofwar.com] Blogs of War: The plan also calls for the return of displaced Lebanese to their homes, negotiations between Israel and Lebanon concerning the disputed Shebaa farms now under Israeli control, the disclosure of maps showing Israeli minefields near the Lebanese border, the deployment and strengthening of the Lebanese army and the expansion of the U.N. force in the south.

 [Morningcoffee.wordpress.com] Morning Coffee » Blog Archive » IDF kills Hizbullah’s regional ...: Amnon Eshel Assulin, Commander of the IDF Armored Brigade, told The Jerusalem Postthat IDF troops operating in the village of Bint Jbeil, considered the “capital of terror” in southern Lebanon, had proven their ability to reach any location in Lebanon, and could even enter Beirut if the government decided on that course of action.

 [S P O O N C A T] Insanity: And then there's Einstein's well-known maxim: "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." And yet Einstein careened from failed relationship to failed relationship, by all appearances doing the same things over and over again. I don't know if he expected different results.

[Israel and The Sin of Expulsion:] Monday Night and Tuesday War News ”¦: F-16 fighter jets shot down a Hezbollah Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Monday night 10 kilometers off the coast of Acre. A high-ranking IAF officer said that it was possible that the UAV was loaded with explosives and was on its way to crash into a sensitive installation in northern Israel.

 [Battlepanda] Underestimating Hezbollah: But Iran and Syria also used those six years to provide satellite communications and some of the world’s best infantry weapons, including modern, Russian-made antitank weapons and Semtex plastic explosives, as well as the training required to use them effectively against Israeli armor.Was Israel truly surprised by Hezbollah's strength? Maybe, but it shouldn't have been.

 [Pajamas Media] MidEast War: 86: Not Good Enough: The Lebanese PM rejected a UN ceasefire plan which did not call for an Israeli withdrawal as a precondition, even as his government sent 15,000 troops south to demonstrate a willingness to assert control over Lebanese territory. President Bush had said that any cease-fire must prevent Hezbollah from strengthening its grip in southern Lebanon, asserting “it’s time to address root causes of problems.”

[Vanguard News Network] Jew Shamir on the Izbollah-Hezbollah... : Bishop Philip of Antioch compared the levelling of this small Lebanese town with the destruction of Stalingrad, but these cities are also comparable by courage of their defenders. Not often, not every generation merits to witness such a shining example of valour: for three long weeks a handful of Hezbollah warriors - two thousand by the most optimistic count - fought off to standstill ten, twenty, thirty times more numerous Israeli troops.

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