Special Envoy to Metula (Northern Israel)
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The road winds its way along a peeled and stony hill. Stopped on the side of the road, men, standing on large pick-up trucks, observe the heights opposite with binoculars. From time to time, small motorcycles in convoy speed down the track at the full speed of their weak engines, waving large yellow flags of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militia. Half-hidden between two houses, Nir, "a lifelong Israeli," as he curiously defines himself, also observes "those on the other side." "The situation is tense but so far it's okay. For now," he says. He is one of the few to have stayed in Metoula, a small Israeli town built on a sort of isthmus in Lebanon, as close as possible to the border. Nir admits that since Saturday and the Hamas attack from Gaza, he has taken a different view of the long wire fence that runs along the border.
"I never had confidence in that fence...
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