Quote from sameeh55:
Not at the border trading, it was INSIDE Lebanese territories. Fucking arrogant pieces of shit had the audacity to cry to the Security Council after one of their colonels got killed. The fumiest part, UN Peace keepers testified that the Zionist assholes penetrated Lebanese territories.
I read Haaretz at the time, but you seem to be right in your description. This was a stupid move from Israel, because a Lt. Colonel does not cut bushes. He was more likely in the middle of hundreds of soldiers. Israel appears bad since it is hard to engineer an excuse, and it appears weak---One Lebanese soldier gunned down the Colonel and another soldier in bad injuries.
I guess Israel would think multiple times before entering the border again, or might launch an attack to try to level the score. Apparently they did some shelling after the fire exchange, but the lebanese won the gun battle which can be a problem for Israel reputation.
