"Israel does not seek to wipe our her neighbors, nor is she capable of it"

That is not at all obvious, Robomatic.

Last Wednesday Hezbollah's border raid captured two Israeli soldiers and left eight more dead last Wednesday. Hezbollah on Saturday launched rockets at Tiberias in the deepest such attack on Israel. Four Israelis were injured.

Israeli raids have killed more than 80 Lebanese. Israeli air-to-ground and gunboat shells hit a bridge on the road from the Beirut to the airport, south of the city centre. Hezbollah's offices in Beirut were destroyed. Hezbollah injured four Israelis in cross-border rocket attacks on Tiberias. Israel has deployed Patriot interceptor missiles in the northern port city of Haifa which was hit by rockets earlier. It also warned Lebanon not to fire on Israeli aircraft.

Israel expanded its bombardment on Saturday, attacking a large number of targets across the country. Warplanes fired rockets on the Lebanon-Syrian border and hit the centre of Beirut for the first time on Saturday.

Eighteen Lebanese civilians, including women and children, were killed on the coastal road to the southern city of Tyre when their vehicles were struck by missiles as they fled a village.

Thousands of foreigners are trying to leave Beirut, leaving its economy in tatters. 22,o00 Australians are in Beirut and can't get out.

The Israeli Army has said any responsibility for endangering the civilian population rested with Hezbollah.

US President George W Bush put the blame squarely on Hezbollah and said Syria should act to curb the group's operations.

back to the fingerpointing.