Lebanon

I was reading an email from a Lebanese friend yesterday. He was telling me how people at the university, at the American University of Beirut are all applying to Canada and other places because they are just not sure when classes will start. Some of them are now working for ngos, and relief agencies in Lebanon trying to get water, food and offer medical services to internally displaced people.
The fate of Lebanon is deeply emotional subject for most northern Sudanese. They see it as an attack to Arabs and Muslims by the West and Israel. My younger cousins are singing songs and marching for Lebanon. There are moments of silence to comemorate those that have died. It is painful for me to see images on the news. I lived there for six months. I cannot believe the devastation I see on the T.V. It took the Lebanese at least 10 years to rebuild their country and economy after the civil war only to have to deal with this. I cannot believe that the historic pheonician and roman temples of Baalbek, Byblos and Tsur have been destroyed.
Many here think it is a conspiracy of Israel and the West to rid themselves of HizbAllah, Iran and Syria in the Middle East once and for all. They are not so wrong in their conclusions. But just like most of the wars and attacks on the region this one will most likely backfire and innocent civilians both in the region and outside will end up paying with their lives.