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Israel is shellacking Lebanon in pursuit of the bad guys. The Jerusalem Post frets that Israel may be playing into Hezbollah's hands by radicalizing Lebanon's weak democracy.
In today's New York Times (on-line subscription required), Tom Friedman thinks the behavior of Hamas and Hezbollah could be an effort by their sponsors, Iran and Syria, to hijack the fledgling democracies of Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq.