Guardian: Borderline Beneficiaries
Israel's UN resolution-breaching incursion strengthens the hands of the Lebanese government's enemies.
The first thing to be made clear about this is that it need not have happened. Israel ended its occupation of southern Lebanon six years ago, but two outstanding issues, Lebanese prisoners held by Israel and continued Israeli occupation of the Shebaa Farms, provided a rationale for Hizbullah to retain its militia and to claim that it was continuing to wage a "liberation" struggle.
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