WE ARE TOLD CONTINUOUSLY ISRAEL HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF FROM GEORGIE AND THE WHOLE CONGRESS OF AMERICA AND GEORGIES PROPAGANDA MEDIA BUT

Does Lebanon Have The Rigth To Defend Itself ?
Farzana Hassan-Shahid

A much-awaited ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah has finally come into effect and appears to be holding despite the fragile peace brokered by the United Nations. After the month-long fighting in Lebanon it is difficult to determine who the victors and the vanquished really are in a war that has been described as asymmetrical. Certainly there were many asymmetries in the war. The damage done to Lebanon's infrastructure has far outweighed the destruction caused to Israel by Hezbollah's Katyusha's. Other asymmetries appeared in the rhetoric of the war itself, blatant among which was the constant reference to Israel's right to defend itself. And while everyone agreed that Israel had the right to defend itself form "unprovoked" aggression by the Hezbollah, what was absent in the incessant discussion on the war was the question on whether Lebanon had the right to defend its borders from Israeli aggression?...

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