Results for “Hizbollah”

…r invading units with their traditional welcome, showering them with rice. But for a new Shi’ite militia calling itself Hizbollah – formed after the invasion and inspired by the Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolution in Iran – our continuing military presence was anathema. In November 1...

Syria. We could halt at that stage, in the unlikely event Hizbollah showed signs of de-escalation. But if it didn’t, the air strikes would intensify. The aim was not target the nearly 250,000 Lebanese civilians who lived in the immediate border area. It was to use our attacks, al...

…ill propose what to do. Push him,” I said. “When he presents his recommended action, ask him for his assessment of what Hizbollah will do in response. When he, or the head of military intelligence, has given you the range of possibilities and told you which is the most likely, sa...

… stable, peaceful Middle East. How, over time, we might manage to extricate ourselves from the escalating violence with Hizbollah; reach a land- for-peace deal with the enigmatic President Hafez al-Assad in Syria; and find some form of coexistence with the Palestinians. He also...

…cy pledge of my campaign: to bring our troops home from Lebanon. No matter what the increasingly emboldened fighters of Hizbollah said publicly, our withdrawal would be bad news for them. It would deprive them of their “‘anti-occupation” rationale for firing Katyushas into towns...

…at was not the most difficult part. The withdrawal had not just a military aim, but a critical political one: to denude Hizbollah, with full international support, of its “occupation” fig-leaf for targeting and terrorizing the towns and villages of northern Israel. Shaul and a nu...

… Kippur War. Our air force flew 12,000 missions, more than in 1973 and nearly twice as many as in the 1982 Lebanon War. Hizbollah fired about 4,000 rockets into Israel — from a stockpile we estimated to number nearly 20,000 — and not just at the border settlements but as far sout...

…our invading units with their traditional welcome, showering them with rice. But for anew Shiite militia calling itself Hizbollah — formed after the invasion and inspired by the Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolution in Iran — our continuing military presence was anathema. In November 1...

…rt and Tzipi soon fell prey to the same self-defeating temptation that had worried me during the meandering war against Hizbollah. Our ground incursion began a few days into the operation. The intention was to stay for a few more days and then, responding to inevitable internatio...

Hizbollah knew that short of a 1982-scale war — and maybe

Hizbollah deliberately fired into Israel from civilian areas.

there was a series of deadly Hizbollah attacks in the first two

in two stages. The first would target Hizbollah

…March 30 and escalating sharply 10 days later, Katyusha rockets rained onto towns and settlements in northern Israel by Hizbollah — the first sustained attack since the cease-fire in 1994. It was pretty obvious that, like Hamas, the Iranian-backed Shiite militia in Lebanon was no...

… young soldiers dead — there was talk about a withdrawal. Yet there was always a reason to reconsider, to put it off: a Hizbollah attack in the security zone, accusations of weakness from right-wing politicians, or simple caution in the kirya. The only way to get it done was to d...