Time magazine reporters can't count. Time magazine reporters can't count. Read all about. From Time magazine: " This, after all, has been Israel's third military intervention in southern Lebanon." What? Third? Are you serious? Do you mean third in a decade? I worry about American readers if this is considered the most "prominent" US "news" magazine around. I mean how could SCOTT MACLEOD write about Lebanon if he does not know these basic facts. In the 1970s, and 1980s, Israeli military interventions in Lebanon were more than monthly.