Well, Peace, Hezbollah are obviously going to do everything they can to survive too, aren't they? Everyone uses his weapons for survival as well as for attack. And the people in the Shiite neighbourhoods in Lebanon will support them, because they have helped those people in many ways when no one else would.

You can't divide this thing up into a set of "good guys" on one side, and a set of "bad guys" on the other...but that is what everyone wants to do. It saves actually thinking of the other guy as human, and that makes it easier to justify killing him.

Capiche?

The Israelis are not knights in shining armour who have committed no offence upon their neighbours. They are not flawless martyrs, above reproach. Neither are Hezbollah. Neither is America. Neither are the Iranians.

A reasonable solution will respect the needs and rights of all involved parties, not be dictated by some self-appointed "moral majority" in Tel Aviv or Washington...or Tehran or Damascus.