Analysis: Israel-Lebanon Attacks Broaden
Israeli troops continued attacks on Lebanon, targeting the Beirut airport and a Hezbollah television station. Hezbollah, in turn, fired over 120 rockets into northern Israel. Analysts look at the chances the violence can be de-escalated. On the border, Israel is using its big guns to pound the Islamic guerrillas on the other side. Aerial surveillance has provided these gunners with the coordinates of suspected Hezbollah positions inside Lebanon, and now these 155-millimeter Howitzers are going into action. From time to time, Hezbollah is firing back. One of their rockets landed right next to an Israeli army base just about a quarter of a mile away.
THEODORE KATTOUF, President, AMIDEAST: There's no doubt that it's a significant deterioration of the situation in the whole region. As Richard Haass pointed out, it comes against the backdrop of a lot of serious events in the region: the nuclearization of Iran; the war in Iraq, that frankly is not going well; the re-entry of Israeli forces into Gaza, with the high cost to civilian life and welfare there.
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