Israeli soldiers in the Israeli occupied Security Zone along the Lebanon-Israel border. I predicted that Israel would still negotiate an agreement with Syria and then pull out from Lebanon. Waleed Ibn Murshid that directly relates to my new argument. Last week's argument was based on my conclusion that all parties to the strife wanted peace. Hizbollah forces fought back but without striking Israel proper.
Peace accords seem more remote than the previous week.
The first was that Barak looked for a way to divert attention from his failure to get agreements with both Syria and the Palestinians. The second was that he was not going to pull out of Lebanon in July as he promised and only do so after a separate accord with Lebanon had been signed. And the third was that Israel would seek a revision of the April 1996 agreement to restrict fighting in Lebanon to military targets. But the big news over these last seven days was the intervention of Saudi Arabia. That intervention ostensibly was on the oil front.