Israel's never ending war

"The reaction to the aggressions brought back the worst days of the previous intervention on Lebanon, interrupted the process of re-establishment of its autonomy after the “Beirut Spring” forced the Syrians to step back, and offered a new political legitimacy to the theocratic fanatics of the Hezbollah amongst the Arabs in general, opportunity which is also being seized by the Iranian ayatollahs and the Al-Qaeda. Worse, both from the humanitarian and the political points of view, would have been difficult."

Augusto M. Seabra, in Público