ARABS-ISRAEL - Apr. 7 - 'Withdrawal From Lebanon Will Be Complete'.The Israeli army's chief of staff, Lieut. Gen. Shaul Mofaz, says a troop withdrawal from Lebanon expected by July will be complete and no Israeli bases will be left inside Lebanese territory to prevent attacks on Israeli border communities. (Lebanon and Syria have warned that they will not protect the border in the event of a unilateral unilateral /uni·lat·er·al/ (-lat´er-al) affecting only one side. u·ni·lat·er·al adj. On, having, or confined to only one side. Israeli withdrawal without a comprehensive peace agreement.) A US State Department spokesman calls on all sides to "do what they can" to ensure a clean and safe Israeli withdrawal. (Israel has been trying to muster TO MUSTER, mar. law. By this term is understood to collect together and exhibit soldiers and their arms; it also signifies to employ recruits and put their names down in a book to enroll them. international support for a pullout pull·out n. 1. A withdrawal, especially of troops. 2. Change from a dive to level flight. Used of an aircraft. 3. An object designed to be pulled out. Noun 1. from the zone it has occupied since 1985 to prevent cross-border attacks.) Shaikh Hassan Nasrallah Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah (Arabic: حسن نصرالله) (b. August 30 1960, Bourj Hammoud,[1] Beirut, Lebanon)[2] , leader of the Hizbollah guerrillas List of famous guerrillas, ordered by region: Afghanistan
tr.v. oust·ed, oust·ing, ousts 1. To eject from a position or place; force out: "the American Revolution, which ousted the English" Virginia S. Eifert. Israel from south Lebanon says any Israeli attacks on south Lebanon would be met in kind. He says: "They drive us out of our homes, we drive them out of theirs. They bomb us, we will bomb them. They kill us, we will kill them ... They know we're not joking and we're not playing games". He did not say whether his guerrillas would be the first to attack by carrying on the fight to the border as some Israeli officials have warned. (Hizbollah has retaliated in the past against Israeli attacks on civilians in Lebanon by firing Katyusha rockets on northern Israeli communities. Israeli PM Barak has threatened harsh retaliation RETALIATION. The act by which a nation or individual treats another in the same manner that the latter has treated them. For example, if a nation should lay a very heavy tariff on American goods, the United States would be justified in return in laying heavy duties on the manufactures and in the event of any attacks on its northern areas after a withdrawal. Israeli officials have expressed concerns that an army proposal to leave a few bases just north of the border would lessen less·en v. less·ened, less·en·ing, less·ens v.tr. 1. To make less; reduce. 2. Archaic To make little of; belittle. v.intr. To become less; decrease. the withdrawal's legitimacy in international eyes and give guerrillas an easier excuse to attack the forces and civilians.) The Israeli army's chief of staff says the army was "deploying to the border between Israel and Lebanon, the line of outposts that existed between us and Lebanon. There won't be any army presence north of or on the other side of this line". Nasrallah warns that fighting will continue if Israel holds pockets of Lebanese territory. (Hopes for an arrangement that would ensure a smooth Israeli pullout faded when negotiations between Israel and Syria broke off in January.) On Apr. 7, State Department spokesman Rubin says that "it would be far preferable" if Israel could withdraw from Lebanon with peace agreements with Lebanon and Syria. Rubin says in a press conference in Washington: "Failing that, we are intending to work closely with PM Barak to see that there is a safe and orderly withdrawal of Israeli forces", adding: "And we expect all parties concerned to do what they can ... to see that any potential withdrawal is done in a safe and orderly fashion". |
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