is where these two soldiers were when they were captured.
At first both sides said that it happened in Lebanon. Now they are saying in Israel.
What is the truth?
As I keep saying, www.sabbah.biz/mt/ for the other side of the story.

_{repressive governments mix administrative clumsiness & inefficiency with authoritarian tendencies.}

The Israelis had been planning the war long before the soldiers were kidnapped. So really, there wasn't a miscalculation here -- if it had not been one thing, it would have been another.

Michael

Nasrallah seems to understand PR better than the Israeli leadership or the Current Occupant. He admits that he gave the order for the capture of the two soliders and accepts responsibility for the consequences.

In today's political climate, that's pretty amazing and bound to win him points with the Lebanese.

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Cogitationis poenam nemo patitur.

From the title "Actions have consequences" I expected you to say that Nasrallah's actions have (possibly unexpected) consequences.

Instead you seem to treat Nasrallah/Hezbollah as if they were a natural phenomenon like global warming or something.

extremely clear.

Saudi Arabia`s Okaz said in its editorial that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah`s statements Sunday that his group would not have carried out the capture of two Israeli soldiers had the leadership anticipated the scale of the Israeli response was an important transition in 'Arab awareness.'
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The semi-official daily added that not hesitating to admit mistakes or miscalculations is an 'awareness that could consolidate reason and establish a new phase in which the Arabs can determine their positions and build their strategies.' It insisted that Nasrallah`s admission also proves the view that warned against 'miscalculated adventures and called for reason to prevent' Israeli aggression against Arab parties. Nasrallah`s comments, the paper claimed, is linked to the Lebanese state`s call to disarm Hezbollah and in affirming the state`s sovereignty through unifying ranks.

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Jordanian newspapers published full page ads by al-Kharafi Group, a Kuwaiti investment company, in which there is an open letter to President George W. Bush surrounded by graphic pictures of dead and injured children in Lebanon.
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The message addressed to the American president said: 'We agree with you, and with all the people of the world, in your rejection of fascism. However, we believe that with one look at the pictures of the victims, those of the children and women of Lebanon from the Israeli bombardment, there is a misunderstanding in determining `who deserves to be accused of being a fascist!`'

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