Lebanon’s newly named defense minister said his country would support Hezbollah gunmen seeking to end Israel’s “bizarre and arrogant” presence in southern Lebanon. “We have identified our enemy as Israel and our brother as Syria,” said Ghazi Zeater, who echoed the previously stated sentiments of the country’s new president, Emile Lahoud.
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