Michel J Totten' s Middle East Journal

Synnerligen läsvärt angående Libanon.

“Did anyone here try to stop Hezbollah?” I said.
“How?” Alan said. “We
have no weapons. Some people told Hezbollah to leave, but they pointed guns in
our faces. Shut up, go back in your house, we were told.”
At the southern
edge of town is an open field with a direct view to the south toward Israel.
“Hezbollah could have set up their rocket launchers here instead of in
town,” Noah said. “It’s a straight shot into Israel.”
“The houses and trees
gave them better cover,” Alan said. “The valley below, though, gave them even
better cover than the village. If that’s all they cared about they would have
stayed there.”