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Fact: A few hundred (or at most a few thousand) millitia members are living within a population of a million or more in southern Lebanon.
Fact: those people have a major idealogical problem with the existence of Israel
Fact: Israel is a well armed very rich power
The result is that the members of the millitia use "terrorist" methods (I use quotes because I don't think they are totally terrorists - I think they are a guerilla force, but the distinction is paperthin and I am comfortable using either designation) to strike any blows at Israel that they think they can.
That said, the photos do not show them launching cowardly attacks on Israel from civillian areas - they show them displaying their weapons in a civilian area.
Let me be clear - I think that both sides in this conflict have behaved abominably, and I don't think it is possible for anyone to say with clarrity who started this round of hostilities; Hezbollah launched rocket attacks on Israel, but they claim they were provoked by Israelli action in the south.
In truth the conflict goes back to the way Britain allowed the Pallestinian protectorate to collapse aftr the war, if not way beyond that to the period between the wars when Britain became de facto rulers in the area, and used "devide and rule" actics to establish feuds that are still in place all over the world. Until the Brits came many situations we view as permanent ethnic feuds all over the world were non-existant.
Either way, the end of the issue will probably be that the Israellis will bomb south lebanon until there's hardly anyone alive - and just be setting up the next genaration of conflict.
I wish there was a simple answer but both sides feel they have a total right to behave the way they are because of the way the other side have treated them.
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
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The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
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