The operation to kidnap Israeli soldiers took months of planning with Hizbullah’s battle-hardened fighters staking out the Lebanese border looking for weaknesses. Evidently they found one. Five days after they blasted through a border fence and seized two soldiers, Hizbullah is in a rapidly escalating conflict with Israel. It’s a climactic struggle between two bitter foes which has become a “defining moment” for the Middle East, says Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, author of “Hizbullah: Politics and Religion.” Full Story