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I don't know, act like the civilized, mature democracy that they are?

7/12/06 - Two Israel Defense Force (IDF) soldiers were kidnapped and seven others were killed Wednesday in attacks on Israel's northern border by Hezbollah, a terrorist group with close ties to Iran. Hezbollah's Al Manar TV station reported that the abduction occurred just after 9 a.m. and the soldiers were transferred to a safe location.

Just two days before the Hezbollah attacks, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, while speaking about Israel on Iran News Network TV, "It will not be long before this intense fury will lead to a huge explosion." Ahmadinejad has also said Israel should be "wiped off the map" and that the Holocaust was a myth.

The two soldiers were patrolling Israel's northern border Wednesday morning in armored jeeps when Hezbollah terrorists fired on the vehicles and detonated explosives nearby. Three other soldiers riding in the jeeps were killed in the attack. A senior Hezbollah official said that at least one of the kidnapped soldiers is still alive.

Hezbollah carried out the assault while conducting massive rocket and mortar shell attacks on IDF positions and Israeli villages. The other four Israeli soldiers who died were killed when their tank drove over a land mine. In the Israeli border town of Shtula, six people were wounded when a rocket hit a house, according to Magen David Adom, Israel's first-aid and disaster relief organization. Israeli officials ordered residents of Israeli towns on the Lebanese border to take cover in underground bomb shelters. Additionaly, thousands of reservists are expected to be called to duty.

During a press conference Wednesday with his Japanese counterpart, Junichiro Koizumi, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared Hezbollah's attack "an act of war" by Lebanon and said the Israeli response will be "restrained but painful."

That they are a civilized, mature democracy is testament to the fact that they didn't leave ALL of southern Lebanon a smoldering ruin.