Up on the ridgeline, fresh fingers of smoke rise against the brilliant blue sky. One in particular swells and grows, the flames at its base advancing across the parched hillside. Artillery is at work, again. The Israeli-Lebanese border is on fire.Since 'Black Saturday', when terrorists slaughtered more than 1,300 Israelis and took more than 200 men, women and children as hostages, the eyes of the world have been fixed on southern Israel and the Gaza Strip.The army is preparing for a full-scale Gaza invasion, and many Israelis wonder at the delay. But here on the northern border, there is real danger of a far greater conflagration, if this daily sparring with the Iranian-backed, Lebanese-based Hezbollah group explodes into all-out war.
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