A Hezbollah-Run Lebanon, but No Panic in Israel
By ISABEL KERSHNER
January 24, 2011
For Israel, the prospect of a government in Lebanon backed by Hezbollah, one of Israel’s worst enemies, seemed to be the realization of a nightmare. Yet some analysts here said it was not necessarily an immediate cause for alarm.
The previous Beirut government, led by Saad Hariri, “never did anything against Hezbollah,” said Prof. Eyal Zisser, an expert on Syria and Lebanon at Tel Aviv University. “So from Israel’s perspective, it is a semantic change.”
Prof. Efraim Inbar, director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, said the situation proved that “the Hezbollization of Lebanon” was continuing, and worrying. “But it is not like they will start shooting at us tomorrow,” he added. “They are busy now with internal affairs.”
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The New York Times
By ISABEL KERSHNER
January 24, 2011
JERUSALEM - For Israel, the prospect of a government in Lebanon backed by Hezbollah, one of Israel’s worst enemies, seemed to be the realization of a nightmare. Yet some analysts here said it was not necessarily an immediate cause for alarm.
The previous Beirut government, led by Saad Hariri, “never did anything against Hezbollah,” said Prof. Eyal Zisser, an expert on Syria and Lebanon at Tel Aviv University. “So from Israel’s perspective, it is a semantic change.”
Prof. Efraim Inbar, director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, said the situation proved that “the Hezbollization of Lebanon” was continuing, and worrying. “But it is not like they will start shooting at us tomorrow,” he added. “They are busy now with internal affairs.”
Continue reading here.
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