They shot up an Alawite community, eh? They are a separate Shi’a sect from the Twelvers of Iran. I wonder if Iran’s lapdogs in Lebanon, Hizbullah, decided to shoot them up as being apostates? Or maybe they regard them as collabos for living peacefully in Israel. Muslims should realize by now that they are liable to be targets of the jihadis almost as much as the rest of us, for whatever deranged reasons seem good to the jihadi lunatics. Look at Darfur, Iraq, and Jordan.

Lebanese should realize that one of the duties of sovereignty is to keep stuff like this from happening. You are not supposed to let people make war on a neighboring state from your territory unless you are willing to be at war with that state, and take the consequences. It is a violation of international law to do this, although that has been routinely violated so often over tha last fifty years by Commies as well as Arabs that the principle may be getting a little frayed by now. Still, if the Lebanese want to be sovereign in their territory they should disarm Hizbullah. If they don’t want to exert sovereignty over South Lebanon, as they refused to do when it was Fatahland, they will have to take the consequences. No doubt all the brave champions of international law will scream bloody murder if they don’t and Israel takes steps to strike Hizbullah. They always do. For some reason armed Jews defending themselves makes an awful lot of people nervous, even hysterical.