Out of curiousity, what are the intended aims in question?
For the record, I don't believe that Hizballah instigated this with the abduction, or not exactly anyway. It sparked the latest conflagration, but the Israeli government has been afraid of Hizballah's increasing sophistication (and even more so of Iran's regional reach) for a while, so I'm inclined to think that they'd been looking for a reason, any reason really, to try neutering Hizballah.
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Re: pfft
Date: 2006-07-25 11:05 am (UTC)For the record, I don't believe that Hizballah instigated this with the abduction, or not exactly anyway. It sparked the latest conflagration, but the Israeli government has been afraid of Hizballah's increasing sophistication (and even more so of Iran's regional reach) for a while, so I'm inclined to think that they'd been looking for a reason, any reason really, to try neutering Hizballah.