Mideast Crisis: Hezbollah Fires New Rocket and Rice Back to Mideast
July 28, 2006 --
Rice to Return to Mideast to Work on Truce
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will return to the Middle East this weekend to work with others on trying to bring an end to the Israeli-Hezbollah fighting. (AP)
U.N. Observers Leave Israel-Lebanon Border
The United Nations has decided to remove unarmed observers from their posts along the Israeli-Lebanese border, moving them in with the peacekeeping force in the area, a spokesman said Friday. (AP)
Israeli Bombs Kill 13 in Lebanon
Intense Israeli bombardment killed 13 people in Lebanon on Friday, while U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she would return to the region only when the time was right for a lasting solution to the crisis. (Reuters)
US 'Outrage' Over Israeli Claims
The US state department has dismissed as "outrageous" a suggestion by Israel that it has been authorized by the world to continue bombing Lebanon. (BBC)
Arab Opinion Turns to Support Hezbollah
At the onset of the Lebanese crisis, Arab governments, starting with Saudi Arabia, slammed Hezbollah for recklessly provoking a war, providing what the United States and Israel took as a wink and a nod to continue the fight. (New York Times)
Iranian Students Volunteer to Join the Fighting in Lebanon and Palestine
The following are excerpts from a news report on Iranian volunteers for Lebanon, which aired on Al-Alam TV on July 26, 2006. (MEMRI)
Only Constructive Negotiations Can Bring about a Ceasefire
By Raghida Dergham
Hezbollah can force Israel into implementing an immediate ceasefire if Hassan Nasrallah makes a strategic decision for the sake of Lebanon and declares that he is ready to hand over Hezbollah's weapons to the Lebanese army and accepts the authority of the State over all Lebanon. (Al Hayat)
10 Ways to (Maybe) End Conflict between Israel and Lebanon
ABC News asked a few Middle East analysts about their thoughts on possible solutions to the current conflict between Israel and Lebanon. (ABC News)
A Time To Act
By Warren Christopher
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's just-concluded trip to Lebanon, Israel and Rome was an exercise in grace, bravery and, to my regret, wrongly focused diplomacy. Especially disappointing is the fact that she resisted all suggestions that the first order of business should be negotiation of an immediate cease-fire between the warring parties.(Washington Post)
Christians Fleeing Lebanon Denounce Hezbollah
The refugees from southern Lebanon spilled out of packed cars into the dark street here Thursday evening, gulping bottles of water and squinting in the glare of the headlights to find family members and friends. Many had not eaten in days. Most had not had clean drinking water for some time. There were wounded swathed in makeshift dressings, and a baby just 16 days old. (New York Times)
