A woman looks at posters of Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (L), Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (top right poster, C) and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (top right, L), displayed by a street vendor near Damascus July 16, 2006. REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri (SYRIA)
I hope she realizes that she is looking at evil.. and soon to be dead men.
Crude oil above $77 on Middle East conflict
U.S. crude futures rose further above $77 on Monday after a weekend of worsening conflict between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas, leaving traders nervous the violence could spread to more Middle East countries.
NYMEX crude for August delivery was trading up $0.35 or 0.45 percent at $77.38 a barrel in ACCESS electronic trading by 2210 GMT, a dollar shy of last week's record $78.40.
NYMEX August gasoline lagged the complex's gain, rising $0.0051 or 0.22 percent to $2.3300.
Hizbollah killed eight people in the Israeli city of Haifa on Sunday in its deadliest rocket attack on the Jewish state, while Israeli planes killed 41 people in Lebanon in a fifth day of strikes.
Leaders of the world's major powers meeting in Russia urged restraint but said Israel had a right to self-defence, putting the onus on Hizbollah to stop the violence by first releasing two Israeli soldiers it captured on Wednesday.