"George Washington University is refusing to condemn one of its most celebrated professors, who wrote an article this week calling for Israel to “flatten” Beirut with overwhelming use of extreme weapons including fuel air explosives that incinerate everything in their path." "Beirut's greater metropolitan area is home to over one million people." "Israel is the only nuclear weapons state in the Middle East, possessing at least 80 warheads, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, with some putting the number far higher."