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Article: Implications Of Hizbullah's Rise.
- Article from:
- APS Diplomat News Service
- Article date:
- September 11, 2006
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The following commentary by Joseph Bahout, a Lebanese professor and research associate at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, was published on Sept. 4: "It might well be true, as many frightened politicians in Lebanon are saying today, that Hizbullah has just conducted a coup d'etat. But such an assertion would not be completely accurate unless it embraced the entire sequence of events: the July 12 abduction of two Israeli soldiers along the border, and the cessation of hostilities on Aug. 14 under UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1701.
"If Hizbullah really put into practice the classical mechanism of 'war making-state building', Israel should be ...