Is Israel Preparing for Another Invasion of Lebanon?
Israel has a plan to invade Lebanon again. They have a score to settle with Hezbollah. The question is when. Last summer Israel used the taking of a soldier hostage as a pretext to invade. What will be the excuse. This unusual incident could be part of that plan:
And we can't put it past the Israelis to provoke anger among Muslims leading to conflict that would require military action or destroy the chances for peace:
UN peacekeepers have boosted their presence on the volatile Lebanese-Israeli border after a clash between the armies of both sides, the first such incident in decades.
Dozens of Italian and French soldiers deployed after the first direct clash involving Lebanese troops, who moved into the border area after Israel's 34-day war with Lebanese Shiite Muslim Hezbollah last summer.
And we can't put it past the Israelis to provoke anger among Muslims leading to conflict that would require military action or destroy the chances for peace:
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has spurned a call to consider halting excavation work near Jerusalem's most sensitive shrine, which has angered Muslims and threatened a Gaza ceasefire deal.
Palestinians have warned Israel the work near a compound housing the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest site, could derail a shaky truce in Gaza with the Jewish state.