re was go hezbollah in article apr yuma acns colostate edu bh longs lance colostate edu basil hamdan writes in article shaig apr composer think com shaig composer think com shai guday writes that is what is so hard of south lebanon israel is not fighting an army with well drawn battle lines but a guerilla tyoe resistance which by definition and necessity blends with the local populace not because they are evil cowards that use women and children as shields but because that is the only way one can fight a more powerful better equipped occupying army while that is currently true from their perspective it is also worthwhile to note that in such cases the populace often does suffer from attempts to control the guerillas furthermore there were cases in the past of palestinian gun emplacements being situated within villages the argument that can be made for small arms fire can not be made for field pieces hizbollah and amal are now the main two militias though hizbollah people tend to be more committed to resistrance operation and better motivated by religious conviction as i recall amal was primarily nationalistically lebanon for the lebanese motivated i think that the difference between them was also a matter of funding and support one question does come to mind however given that you claim the hizbollah to be more committed etc and that their stated position is no peace talks no peace talks n no peace talks n no israel if we assume that lebanon and syria are sincere in their desire for peace why hasn t the hizbollah been disarmed i hope you are right on israeli willingness to withdraw but i still contend that withdrawal would be the better course for israel s security since it would reduce its military losses and i claim that the lebanese and syrian gov ts would be able to prevent any further attacks on northern israel bearing in mind the above and that military losses are more palatable than civilian ones i am sure you can understand why israel is slow to act in that manner no the syrian gov t is more than happy to have israel sink into another lebanese morass i could elaborate if necessary hmm here we disagree on what serves syria interests better i think syria wants to have lebanon all to itself it would be willing to guarantee northern israel s security in return for israeli withdrawal i don t think syria wants israel to be involved in its protectorate of lebanon syria is sitting at the negotiating table because it has come to accept that and wants to get a political resolution a renewal of hostilities along the lebanese front could put the whole me peace negotiations back in question i agree that syria wants lebanon to be part of its greater syria i don t necessarily see that the syrians would be unhappy to see israel up to its neck in another lebanese morass afterwhich syria could continue on its merry schedule when israeli public opinion would lead to a second pullout i agree that the loss of any human life is deplorable and regrettable sigh why can t some gov ts negotiate as easily as some people shai guday stealth bombers os software engineer thinking machines corp the winged ninjas of the skies cambridge ma
