Minister warns against giving hizbullah greater legitimacy By The Daily Star and Agence France Presse (AFP) Thursday, August 21, 2008 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel warned the Lebanese government against giving greater legitimacy to Hizbullah, saying it would make the entire country a target in any future war. "The moment the Lebanese government confers legitimacy on Hizbullah, it must understand that the entire Lebanese state will be a target in the same way that all of Israel is a target for Hizbullah," Environment Minister Gideon Ezra told public radio on Wednesday. "During the Second Leban-ese War we considered the possibility of attacking Lebanon's infrastructure but we never resorted to this option, because we thought at the time that not all the Lebanese were responsible for the Hizbullah attacks," claimed Ezra, who is...
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