I am ashamed every time I pick up a newspaper or turn on the radio to hear about innocent Lebanese being killed by the Israeli Army but Qana is a tragedy. The fact is that for many civilians there was no choice but to sit it out:
“What can we do with all of our kids?” she asked. “There was just no way to go.”
There are two sides to the war in Lebanon. And as long as one side chooses to fight as the video above shows, the chances of another Qana are always possible. But that is no excuse.
Whether this video is real or fake remains to be seen. But Qana did happen. And it would be foolish to think that it is anything other than a catastrophe for Israel as well as for the innocent people who died this weekend. Michael Totten is totally downbeat:
Cable news reports that 82 percent of Lebanese now support Hezbollah. Prime Minister Fouad Seniora – whatever his real opinion in private – is now closer to openly supporting Hezbollah in public than he has ever been.
The March 14 Movement (the Cedar Revolution) is, at best, in a coma if not outright dead.
If I could find a glimmer of hope, believe me I would.
Israel, Lebanon, War
