Reply #39: None Of That Is Going To Happen, Sir

[The Magistrate]

The so-called "Lebanese farms" is an area about six kilometers square that was originally held by Syria under the M.A.C. negotiations and is within the northern boundaries of Israel recognized by the United Nations. It is both a trifle and a load of tripe as a purported cause for violence.

There will never be any peace with Hezbollah because the organization is conceived as the armed expression of a religuious duty to destroy the state of Israel as an incursion onto Moslem lands Moslems have a sacred duty to repell. This rather narrows the available room for compromise....