On a visit to Beirut, three Arab members of Israel’s Parliament praised Hezbollah’s “resistance” to Israel. The three legislators told Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora on Friday that Hezbollah had “lifted the spirit of the Arab people,” the Jerusalem Post reported — despite the fact that Hezbollah missiles killed a disproportionately high number of Israeli Arabs during this summer’s war.
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