Lebanon 'has been torn to shreds'

Bombing dairy factories and electricity plants will only make Hezbollah supporters depend on Hezbollah more.

Israel knows as well as anyone else that Hezbollah in Lebanon is a state within a state. Hezbollah didn't build those rockets. Syria and Iran are fighting their wars against the West and Israel through Lebanon. Syria should be fighting in the Golan, not here.
The international community should start twisting Iranian and Syrian arms. It spends hours arguing over Iran's nuclear reactor. And they want the least powerful authority, the Lebanese government, to tackle Hezbollah on its own.
Since it all started, there has been a lot of damage, and death. The Lebanese who thought that their country was, at last, building a better future for itself are heartbroken about what is happening.
Now Beirut is left behind, its sun struggling through a shroud of smoke from the fires started by Israeli strikes. Less than a week ago Lebanon was basking in its summer, proud that foreigners wanted to come here again.


Canada: 40,000
Philippines: 30,000
Australia: 25,000
US: 25,000
UK: 22,000 (inc. 10,000 with dual nationality)
France: 20,000
Figures correct at start of conflict