Hezbollah and Israel

As you no doubt heard, the Hezbollah's chief, Nasrallah, said that if Israel attacked Beirut, Lebanon again, he was prepared to unleash rockets that would rain down on Tel Aviv, one of the most important and populous of Israeli cities. As we all heard last night, Israel went after Beirut in a big way in the pre-dawn hours of Friday.

Is Hezbollah going to show it does indeed have rockets capable of crippling Tel Aviv? I don't know. I would certainly hate to see it happen, just as I've hated every moment of the wanton destruction Israel has visited upon Beirut and elsewhere.

Beirut has long been a city of distinction in the Middle East and home to many journalists covering Iraq and other regions; it will be decades perhaps before this great city can rebuild all that Israel has destroyed. I would not want to see that happen to Tel Aviv or any other Middle Eastern city for that matter.