Nobody, it appears, has profited from the war in Lebanon - that is if you discount the arms dealers. Indeed the whole affair in retrospect has seemed a bizarre exercise in pointlessness and futility - an object lesson in what not to do.
Neither of the two sides have achieved sustainable military objectives while a tragedy of epic proportions has been inflicted on a hapless civilian population some of whom will certainly now be sensitised to the beguiling call of hatred, terrorism and...
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