Lebanon

Lebanon's Parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri, speaking with diplomats in France today, said that he is confident Hizbullah does not want a piece of Israel right now, so to speak. Fresh in their memory, says Lebanon's Daily Star, was the 2006 Israeli reaction to cross border rockets; "1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers, dead," says the Daily Star.

Information Minister Tarek Mitri did warn that the longer the conflict continues the more "hearts and minds" in the Arab world may be won over for the Palestinian plight, to the point - possibly - of reaction.