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Replicating Lebanon in the West Bank
(Ha'aretz) - "How, with our own hands, did we bring Lebanon to within 20 kilometers of my house?" asks Lieutenant Colonel Amir Baram, commander of paratroop battalion 890. Baram views the fighting in the territories as "satisfying work, with daily rewards for the sweat." "You don't have to work too hard to persuade a soldier of the justness of an operation when he sees bags of explosives that could have blown up outside his house."