(Philadelphia Inquirer) Trudy Rubin - If Secretary of State Rice wants to understand the dangers posed by the Gaza pullback, she should visit southern Lebanon. I was there last week. Israel withdrew unilaterally from southern Lebanon in 2000 for its own security reasons. But most Lebanese credit Hizballah with driving Israel out. Hizballah now controls the south and is viewed throughout the region as the one armed Arab group that has defeated Israel - by suicide bombers and guns. The unsettling model for what Gaza could become is visible today in southern Lebanon.
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