From todays Independent Robert Fisk has another excellent piece where he argues the war starts today. He also has a very different perspective of what has been happening militarily on the ground in the last 48 hours from what you will see on CNN.
The real war in Lebanon begins today. The world may believe – and Israel may believe – that the UN ceasefire due to come into effect at 6am today will mark the beginning of the end of the latest dirty war in Lebanon after up to 1,000 Lebanese civilians and more than 30 Israeli civilians have been killed. But the reality is quite different and will suffer no such self-delusion: the Israeli army, reeling under the Hizbollah’s onslaught of the past 24 hours, is now facing the harshest guerrilla war in its history. And it is a war they may well lose.
Full Story: http://tinyurl.com/nbty3
