"Physical decimation aside, the human toll of the conflict was of course even more appalling, as the Israeli military had engaged in such activities as close-range helicopter massacres of families with small children fleeing southern Lebanon in accordance with explicit Israeli evacuation orders." "Now, 10 years later, Israel continues to threaten Lebanon with total destruction in the next confrontation—as though its regular assaults on the country over the past several decades haven’t amounted to just that. For Lebanon, apparently, justice isn’t even slow. It’s nonexistent."