She decided to take the trip this month, but a few days before her scheduled departure, violence erupted on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
But that problem, which loomed large this morning, had been overshadowed by late afternoon by the renewal of a dormant conflict on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
Along the Israeli-Lebanese border, tensions are running high.
He played with civilians' lives along the Israeli-Lebanese border for decades by financing Hezbollah.
The growing Iranian influence, by most calculations, has been one factor in the sudden fighting this month on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
He stated that he was ready for another confrontation with Israel and had previously put all his fighters in the Israeli-Lebanese border on high alert.
Reserves were called up and eight brigades amassed on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
Land troops were flown by helicopters to seize the ground between the Israeli-Lebanese border and the river Litani.
President Bush is right about one thing: We need to do more than restore the prewar situation on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
The officer said all the soldiers were searching within what Israel calls its security zone, a 6-mile-wide strip running about 50 miles along the Israeli-Lebanese border.