{"id":6571,"date":"2010-08-03T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T19:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6571"},"modified":"2011-01-19T15:50:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T20:50:44","slug":"israel-lebanon-border-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/08\/03\/israel-lebanon-border-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel-Lebanon border clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6572\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/08\/Lebanon-Israel-border-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Lebanon-Israel border\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" \/>In\u00a0the first\u00a0serious <a title=\"clash\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-israel-lebanon-20100804,0,6928535.story\" target=\"_blank\">clash<\/a>\u00a0since their 2006 war, Lebanese and Israeli troops exchanged fire on the border in an exchange that killed four people, including two Lebanese soldiers and an Israeli army officer.\u00a0 It apparently was sparked when Israeli soldiers cut down a tree along the fence dividing the two countries.\u00a0 International relations Professor <a title=\"Augustus Richard Norton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/norton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Augustus Richard Norton<\/a>, author of &#8220;<em><a title=\"Hezbollah: A Short History\" href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/8363.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hezbollah: A Short History<\/a><\/em>,&#8221; says it likely was an isolated incident.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Lebanon-Israel border has been quiet since the 2006 war, and for that matter it was nearly as quiet between 2000 and 2006.\u00a0 Today&#8217;s clash therefore an isolated incident.\u00a0 <em>It is instructive to keep in mind that the Israeli security forces routinely shoot people who encroach on Israeli territory (or even approach it, as in Gaza), and my hunch is that the Lebanese army meted out the same response.&#8221;<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Augustus Richard Norton, 617-353-7808, <a href=\"mailto:arn@bu.edu\">arn@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0the first\u00a0serious clash\u00a0since their 2006 war, Lebanese and Israeli troops exchanged fire on the border in an exchange that killed four people, including two Lebanese soldiers and an Israeli army officer.\u00a0 It apparently was sparked when Israeli soldiers cut down a tree along the fence dividing the two countries.\u00a0 International relations Professor Augustus Richard Norton, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[3445,540,3039],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6571"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7625,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions\/7625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}