Israel resists truce calls in "fight for survival" | Top News | Reuters.com

Israel resists truce calls in "fight for survival" | Top News | Reuters.com:

... "'Israelis see Hizbollah as a proxy of Iran that every morning threatens us with extermination,' said Yaron Ezrahi, a political science professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

'This has triggered visions of the Holocaust and extermination. It explains why there has been such intense support here for the operation against Hizbollah.'

Many Israelis fear Hizbollah is the speartip of Iran, whom they accuse of trying to build nuclear bombs and whose president has said the Jewish state should be wiped off the map."...

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