History Repeating

I found some caricatures from the year 2000.
Look familiar?

A "War"k in the park

I feel this is a relatively easy war for Israel.
Lebanon's army is week and is not participating in the fight together with the Hezbollah (even though it can). Israel is fighting via air strikes, therefore no soldiers are getting hurt, and in Tel-Aviv we feel nothing. Nothing at all.
My heart goes to the people who live in northen Israel - they are "fighting" our war. They suffer casualties in body and in property and therefore they are this war's heroes.
But this is no Iraq no. 2. We can still live a normal life. This is not the "classic" war where you see armed men running in the streets, smoke everywere and ruins on ruins.
In the crazy place I live in, I know this is not the end. When this is all over, we may have quiet for a few monthes, years or decades.
People of Israel, don't think it will be so easy next time (even though I consider myself as optimist, the reality is stronger than me now and I'm almost positive there will be a next time).

Don't forget we still have the Iranians nuclear bomb ahead...

Know your enemy

I wonder if we can refer to the "war" between Israel and Hezbollah as a war of mutual respect between enemies.
(I wrote the word 'war' in quotes because no one knows if it is a "special situation" or a "conflict" or any other weird title, or simply "war".)
What I mean when I say a war of mutual respect is that we know that the Hezbollah rockets are very accurate, and if they want, they can target our chemical factories in Haifa and cause a huge amount of casualties due to the spread of chemicals in the air.
On the other hand, we are using our air force and navy only when targeting the Hezbollah and the infrastructure. We can enter Lebanon with our infantry by land, but we don't.

As long as this weird respect between us remains, the situation (In the short term at least) will not escalate to the extreme.
But, in my opinion, if the Hezbollah feels it's the end of the organization, I'm afraid all hell will break loose.