Sunday, August 20, 2006

Fragile calm

An Israeli commando raid (justified as an action to prevent arms transfers between Hezbollah and Syria) clearly violated the truce imposed by the UN on the 14th of August.
This incident is an obvious highlight to the urgent need of UN reinforcements from Europe but, on the other hand, it puts off potential troop contributors as insecurity is high.

The Lebanese have started to come back to a destroyed sight. Hezbollah is promising financial help and providing bulldozers and men to start the reconstruction. They are erecting plenty of red banners over the huge piles of debris left by the air raids.


The airport has started operating and Beirut seems to be coming slowly back to what it was, with the exception that now has thousands of buildings, roads and bridges to redo and no tourists on sight. And this was supposed to be a great Summer for Lebanon.

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