Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Hizballah decides to stir the pot, kidnap some Israeli soldiers and get people killed (it only ended up being their own people this time, fortunately):
11 Israelis injured, at least 4 Hezbollah gunmen killed in failed kidnap attempt
Galilee panhandle and Western Galilee residents spent several hours in bomb shelters for the first time since the Israeli military withdrew from Lebanon in May 2000.
Yesterday's incidents were the most serious since three soldiers were kidnapped from the frontier Har Dov area in October 2000. The Shiite organization also fired Katyusha rockets at Galilee settlements and shelled the area...
So Israel hits back:
Israeli Warplanes Hit Targets in Lebanon
Mofaz spoke just hours after Israeli fighter jets attacked a command post of Hezbollah guerrillas in south Lebanon and after army bulldozers entered Lebanon to demolish a Hezbollah post just north of the community of Ghajar...
The Israeli strike came a day after the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah fired mortars and rockets toward the Israeli-Lebanese border, wounding 11 Israeli soldiers and damaging a house in an Israeli border community. The shelling sent thousands of Israeli civilians into bomb shelters. Israeli return fire killed four Hezbollah guerrillas...
Like that Hezbollah fired "toward" the border business? They only fired toward it, not beyond it, just sort of in that direction dontcha know.
Update: Here's the story of the single Israeli soldier responsible for Hezbollah's body count: Paratrooper sniper becomes hero
Oh dear, some terrorists were killed. What a shame. Did I say terrorists? That's not nice of me. I should have written "Freedom Fighters". Or maybe "militants". "Insurgents"?
JIHADI is the word you were looking for. It probably conveys Hizbullah's nature better than any other. And is harder for journalists to quibble about since, after all, that is what these enemies of peace call themselves.