A woman leads a chant as people gather to protest the escalation of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, in New York City. (Credit: Kent J Edwards/Reuters)
“You hear the jets overhead — we have been striking all day,” the Israeli army Chief Herzi Halevi told soldiers of the 7th Brigade, stationed at the Lebanese border. “This is both to prepare the ground for your possible entry and to continue degrading Hezbollah.”Diplomats, led by those from the U.S. and France, are scrambling behind the scenes to build a cease-fire plan that would instigate a pause in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, sources say. But, as L'Orient-Le Jour's Mounir Rabih wrote today, in the case of Israel-Hamas talks, "it should be noted that with each new round of negotiations and each step forward, the Israelis tended to intensify their operations, thus sabotaging all efforts to reach an agreement or cease-fire."While a flurry of meetings about Lebanon takes place on the sidelines as well as during the main...
“You hear the jets overhead — we have been striking all day,” the Israeli army Chief Herzi Halevi told soldiers of the 7th Brigade, stationed at the Lebanese border. “This is both to prepare the ground for your possible entry and to continue degrading Hezbollah.”Diplomats, led by those from the U.S. and France, are scrambling behind the scenes to build a cease-fire plan that would instigate a pause in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, sources say. But, as L'Orient-Le Jour's Mounir Rabih wrote today, in the case of Israel-Hamas talks, "it should be noted that with each new round of negotiations and each step forward, the Israelis tended to intensify their operations, thus sabotaging all efforts to reach an agreement or cease-fire."While a flurry of meetings about Lebanon takes place on the sidelines as well as during the...