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Arab support for Hezbollah grows as fighting continues
Many Arab leaders responded with quick condemnation when Hezbollah militants kidnapped two Israeli soldiers this month. Some of the harshest words were from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Sunni Muslim-led U.S. allies that both said the Shiite militants' "adventures" risked destabilizing the Middle East. But as the fighting stretches into its third week and the civilian casualties climb from Israel's Lebanese offensive, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries are shifting the focus of their criticism from Hezbollah to Israel.
We had no doubt that'd happen. It was only a matter of time. Hezbollah's surprised it hasn't happened earlier.
Immediately after the militant group seized the soldiers, Riyadh issued a strong rebuke accusing it of carrying out "uncalculated adventures." This week, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia warned that "if the option of peace fails as a result of Israeli arrogance, then the only option remaining will be war, and God alone knows what the region would witness in a conflict that would spare no one."

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned after the Hezbollah raid that the guerrilla fighters "will drag the whole region to adventures that won't serve either the interests or the issues of Arabs."
Posted by: Fred 2006-07-29
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=161180