Security Council Resolution 1701, adopted unanimously on Aug. 12, contains the bases upon which a lasting peace could be established along the Lebanon/Israel border, and true sovereign authority transferred to Lebanon's government…
The U.N. cease-fire in the Middle East held up for a second day, paving the way for Lebanese and Israeli civilians from the border region to return home…
When the Hezbollah initially kidnapped the Israeli soldiers, the event that seems to have sparked the current crisis, I was traveling in Europe with only the International Herald Tribune, CNN, BBC, and some German newscasts available to keep me up to snuff…
Prior to September 11, the general consensus was that conventional Middle East armies were paper tigers and that their terrorist alternatives were best dealt with by bombing them from a distance — as in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq, east Africa, etc. — and then letting them sort out their own rubble…
