It could be expected the worst when word came that Hezbollah had killed eight Israeli soldiers near the border and seized two more. Everyone knew that Israeli revenge would be severe. The only question was whether Israel would confine itself to attacks on Hezbollah, or if it would hold Lebanon responsible and launch attacks across the board. Israel chose the latter course. The situation puts the Lebanese government and military in a very hard position. The government simply cannot control Hezbollah. It cannot take it on politically because of its support among Lebanon's Shiite Muslim population.
While Israeli military officials reported that Hezbollah fighters fired more than 100 rockets into northern Israel Thursday in response due to attacks to Lebanon's infrastructures, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ordered his army to continue its operations in Lebanon. So No immediate end to the fighting appeared in sight.
It's hard to imagine Lebanese people picking either side, even as they watch their highways, airports and villages being bombed, while groups of Arab tourists escape to Damascus, taking with them the tourism money Lebanon counts on to survive. Besides disliking the Israeli policies in occupied Palestine and its bloody history in Lebanon it makes it harder for them to choose sides between Israel or Hezbollah .It seems that Lebanese people are paying for the Hezbollah's sins.