As we all know, it started when Hezbollah guerillas acted illegally when infiltrating Israel, killing 8 soldiers and kidnapping 2. Israel responded stunningly, and might I say, in a manner that I would have too: with swift military force.
Lebanon, as a country, is split into two big pieces: the Hezbollah piece and the non-Hezbollah piece. When Lebanon kicked Syria out of the country and formed its own democratically elected government, Hezbollah was included in the process, and has two ministers that influence decisions. Worse yet, Hezbollah has a standing militia that is trained and armed by Syria and Iran that was supposed to be shut down once the democratically elected government took control. But it hasn't yet. So Israel is acting out of a desire to see this well-armed, well-trained, and determined military group sitting on its border shut down.
Israel is saying "Enough already".
The Lebanese people don't, on the whole, support what Hezbollah has done, but the Lebanese government does not have the willpower or the military power to shut down Hezbollah. If they attempted to, it would spark a new civil war that could have torn the country asunder. The ministers and people (that are not part of Hezbollah) have been saying "Enough already".
And now we, the rest of the world, are watching the attacks in pictures and video, seeing hundreds of innocent civilians in Lebanon killed, and scores of buildings in Israel destroyed by Hezbollah rockets and neither side is willing to back down or stop the hostilities, and even though we all support Israel's right to defend itself (including countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and others, who refused to condemn Israel's reaction to having its soldiers kidnapped) we've all started to hear the chorus of the world: "Enough already".
And now I sit here, seeing people in the US cheer when little kids are getting hurt in Lebanon, and our leaders unwilling to even so much as condemn the killing of civilians, and evangelical Christians cheering what they think is the beginning of armageddon, and pictures of Israeli girls writing messages on artillery shells to send to the Lebanese, and all I can think is "Enough already".
