Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
I know it would never happen, but I would love for Israel to have turned the tables on Hezbollah in this episode. Rather than opening fire and flattening southern Lebanon and large sections of Beirut, they should have asked UN observers to enter Haifa and other northern villages. Perhaps an empassioned plea on the floor of the UN begging China, Russia and France to stop their support of Iran and Syria, who would then be forced to stop their support of Hezbollah.

Oh wait, one problem with my pipe-dream... nobody but the US seems to care when Israelis die.
Asking the UN to come in and intervene makes Israel look weak. That's not something they would willingly do. Their defence and foreign policy is based on being strong and imposing themselves on their neighbours. The only times Israel has been forced to acknowledge the existence of others is when American support slackens. There is no risk of that with the neocons in power, therefore Israel sees no point in deviating from its policy of unilateralism.

It's not that no-one other than the US cares if Israelis die, it's that Israel doesn't care about the opinions of others (positive or negative) except the US.