[Reuters] Dan Williams - Israel will hold Lebanon responsible for any future Hizbullah attack if Hizbullah is brought into Beirut's incoming government, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday. "If Hizbullah joins the Lebanese government as an official entity, let it be clear that the Lebanese government, as far as we are concerned, is responsible for any attack - any attack - from its area on the State of Israel," Netanyahu said. "It cannot hide and say: 'It's Hizbullah, we don't control them.'" Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor said, "Hizbullah is a terror organization that has become a semi-army. Basically, it is a branch of Iran on our northern border, with Syria's consent and with Lebanon's consent."
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