Israel, Lebanon and the Hizbollah !! Whos right and whos at the receiving end

The first website I opened this morning on coming to office was that of IHT. Their headlines showed a picture of the rescue operations in Lebanon. Israeli attacks on the previous day had led to the collapse of a residential complex killing innocent people who had gathered for there for shelter from the attacks. I could see the fear of losing their life written all over the faces of those in rescue operations.

Imagine that you have been living in a place for decades and one day suddenly you are forced to leave for no fault of yours, not due to the fury of nature, but due to the a war that started from nothing, for nothing. The future of the entire population living in that area became uncertain one day. And as they leave their homes reluctantly, they look back for the last time...for it may be rubble at the end of all this, an end which is nowhere in sight. The fear of losing jobs, losing money, respect, social status et all and migrating to Timbuktoo, which lurks in the back of everybody's mind, has come true to a certain set of people, whom the world is watching with all its eyes open and doing nothing. Oops did I say doing nothing, I am sorry !! The countries all over definitely did something. Something that did have a positive image of that country. They pulled out all their citizens out of Lebanon in a jiffy.

Okie....lets see why this is happening......Theres some terrorist outfit called the Hizbollah (forgive me for spelling mistakes if any)....a group that is fighting for the cause of Islamists, operating out of Lebanon and firing rockets into Israel. Israelis as usual responded with 10 rockets for every one rocket that comes into their land....After realising that those rebuttals are not serving their purpose, they launch an aggressive invasion into Lebanon, seeking to wipe that zone clear of Hizb. Whos caught in this crossfire.....Innocent people as usual !!

Lebanon government for its part, not having curtailed Hizb earlier, is blaming other Arab nations for doing nothing. Wasn't everything under its control sometime back. IT was sleeping over it all the time.

But for the innocent lives, this entire issue makes me feel that hizb and the failure of Lebanon to have stopped them, is the root cause for the mayhem that is happening now. Israel's response seems to be rational. But, this impression is based upon media reports which we now know are biased and the degree of bias is not clear. What could be Hizb's point of view. I am unable to see significant advantages for them in this. Of course they would not be doing this without huge benefit and am waiting for some report to throw some light on that.