(Click The Map To Enlarge)Israel Lebanon Border (Image From Middle East Strategy Harvard)
Form The Wall Street Journal:
HABBARIYA, LEBANON -- Residents of this hilltop village in southern Lebanon lived through decades of Israeli occupation and saw homes and businesses destroyed by Israeli soldiers in a brief summer war in 2006.
But even as they watch casualties mount in Israel's 20-day attack on the Gaza Strip, they say they've turned a page and don't want to be drawn into a second front in a war with their longtime enemy.
"We don't want another war with Israel," said Suhair Hammoud, a 36-year-old teacher.
That sentiment, shared by many among the farming communities dotting the rolling green hills and olive groves here, is a significant departure. The area has been the launching pad for a handful of rocket attacks into Israel during the Jewish state's Gaza offensive.
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My Comment: I do not blame them for not wanting war. The sentiment in Israel at the moment is to destroy the enemy .... no more pussyfooting around. The Lebanese know this .... they see the destruction that is happening in Gaza .... and I am sure that they do not want the same thing to happen in their neighborhoods.