How far will the Israeli crusade in southern Lebanon go? The blue and white flag with the Star of David in its center flew this Sunday, May 31, on the Beaufort Fortress, a rocky spur 710 m above sea level which overlooks the Litani River in Lebanon (29 km north of the Israeli border) and part of northern Israel. This citadel has always been the subject of multiple conquests, those of the Umayyad caliphs to the Crusaders, the Ottomans, Palestinian fighters in the 1970s, then the Israeli army which occupied it, as well as all of southern Lebanon, for more than twenty years until May 2000. From this occupation was born Hezbollah, a pro-Iranian Shiite resistance movement which made southern Lebanon its bastion.
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