Buffer zone: How Israel is tightening its grip on south Lebanon

Buffer zone: How Israel is tightening its grip on south Lebanon

Beirut, Lebanon - The guns have largely fallen silent across southern Lebanon. But the fragile truce that halted the latest round of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has done little to resolve the deeper questions that made the conflict possible in the first place, and Lebanon's government is discovering that peace may demand more than war ever did. The ceasefire, brokered with heavy American and Saudi involvement, was greeted with markedly…