-Israel has destroyed telephone and television antennas in Beirut. My guess, it's just to scare people - how do you feel when you hear that your brother's neighbourhood has been bombed, but you can't call and check on him?
Note that the US had done the same in Baghdad, and it took some whiz college students to reestablish the landlines in a way I didnt quite understand but partially worked. The US had also bombed the teli and radio to start broadcasting their own feed. And they sent spam emails to iraqi users.
Any lebanese here to tell us if any of that is taking place?
-we all discuss where the lebanese army is. Well, here is the answer: 'they're hiding and letting Hezbollah do the job'. BBC: "For now, the Lebanese army has remained in its barracks during the current conflict with Israel". Also quoting BBC: " the Lebanese government has launched a veiled threat it might start fighting if Israel deploys a large ground force in southern Lebanon". I love that.
Veiled threat? Why veiled? :) That's what in Egypt we call the 'shilou men fo2i la amaweto' principle - roughly interpreted, "somebody make him stop crushing my bones, or I'll be forced to use violence"...
Former Lebanese army Amin Hotteit: "the lebanese air force doesn't have jets; the navy doesn't have warships".
So now, disarming Hezbollah is not just disarming a random armed faction: it's effectively disarming the only military defense that Lebanon has.
Many of those who try to champion SC decision 1559 are unaware of that fact --- but many are aware that removing Hezbollah will be removing the last fig leaf covering Lebanon's... ehemm.. South.
And this is something that all Lebanon, not just the Shia, will not let happen.
Ths is why the Israeli raid is in all over Lebanon, not just the Shia-dominated South. Even the rich Al-Ashrafeya neighbourhood in Beirut west, mainly Christian, was targeted.
This is also why Israel targets civilian infrastructures (today's news report: water stations, gas stations, hospitals, more roads...): to incite an anti-Hezbollah movement. But, as I read today (don't remember where): "Israel thinks that by bombing the Lebanese, it will weaken Hezbollah. The truth is, as Israel bombs the Lebanese, it just makes them more angry".
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