Reply #3: If you don't mind, I'm going to extract and list the numbers because

[peacetalksforall]

some people can be more impacted by numbers staring out at them - in plain sight. Then I want to ask a question -

Only 3 1/3 times the size of Rhode Island (approximately).
If Lebanon were a State, it would be our second smallest.

Population before: 3.2 million
Killed 1,200
Maimed 3,700
Homeless 375,000
Unexploded cluster bomblets still to explode - over 1,000,000 (million)
War damage 3.6 billion

We know that their infrastructure was purposely bombed.

There are some equivalent numbers for Israel, of course.

My question is - is there any doubt floating around about
Hezbollah crossing the border and kicking it off? Have
identities and loyalties been provedn

If writing a plot and knowing what we do about staged
reasons for killing, does anyone think that the kick-off
for the destruction was concocted? I don't trust anyone
in the war game - it seemed they wanted to purposely
weaken Lebanon in preparation to bomb Iran.

We can't forget the tidbits of knowledge we've had about
pipelines - water and oil. A lot of behind the scenes
pipeline route manipulations, negotiations, and building
goes on that we don't even know about. Passing through
Lebanon to a Mediterranean port (Israel) and bypassing
the Red Sea would be ideal.