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Iraqi-American Fawaz Saraf emails:
A BBC headline this evening read something along these lines:
"Israel Captures Lebanese border village".
In my view, a great PR for Israel, especially among the Lebanese, would be the headline above but modified as follows:
"Israel captures Lebanese border village, ready to hand over to Lebanese army". Hezbollah is portraying itself as the resistance that liberated Lebanese land from Israel. Well, Israel left Lebanon so one would think now that Hezbollah would be busying itself rebuilding the south and making the lives of Lebanese shiites better. Sadly, and for myriad of reasons that perhaps take a book to explain, that is not how Arab political movements operate . I think it was important to attack Hezbollah and send a very clear message to the Lebanese, especially the shiites, and the message is Hezbollah is bad for you and we can help make your life better. In my opinion this message should be complemented with the message that states the following: Every village we clear of Hezbollah and then have it controlled by the Lebanese army will be safe from bombing and attacks and life in that village can then return to normal.
