Lebanese Border Skirmishes Seen as West Bank Power Play From: Forward | Date: November 19, 2004| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Shelah, Ofer
Forward
11-19-2004
TEL AVIV -- While Israeli politics went into a holding pattern this week,
awaiting leadership changes in the post-Arafat Palestinian Authority -- and
in post-election Washington -- other players in the region were seizing the
initiative, beginning with Iran and Hezbollah.

Intelligence sources told the Forward that Hezbollah had initiated a string
of recent provocations on Israel's northern front, after a long period of
quiet, as a response to "pressures" being exerted on the Shi'ite militia.
These include Western pressure on Iran, its main patron, over its nuclear
...

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