After three weeks of war Israel is more than ever in the international dock . . . Hezbollah may be blindly showering with missiles the population of the north of Israel, but the evidence of war crime comes from the images of the dead children of Qana

Libération, France

The call for an immediate ceasefire, in contrast to the calls for a ceasefire in 1996, will only have a limited effect . . . An immediate unconditional ceasefire will be the same as a victory for Hezbollah

Die Tageszeitung, Germany

The “new Middle East” promised by Condoleezza Rice is emerging from the ashes of devastated Lebanon . . . Israel, under the guidance of Rice, must have undertaken the contractor role to flatten the Middle East, starting from Lebanon, so that Washington can scissor out a new one to its liking

Turkish Daily News

It took the worldwide uproar over the Qana casualties to finally jolt the Bush Administration into asking for something it should have sought many days earlier. Washington’s instant turnabout and Israel’s instant response has left the damaging impression that, had America expressed similar concerns sooner, these and many other innocent Lebanese lives might have been saved

New York Times

Neville Chamberlain encouraged and hastened the onset of the Second World War with his accommodation of the Nazis; today the UN and a handful of blinkered nations are ensuring another potentially greater conflict with their moves to appease Hezbollah’s terrorists and their sponsors in Iran and Syria

The Daily Telegraph, Australia

Hezbollah can proudly claim it has resisted more than any other Arab army . . . It can also claim that, for the first time, it made Israel feel vulnerable and changed the rules of the game. Accordingly, Hezbollah will feel that it has achieved its goals

Asharq Alawsat, a pan- Arabic daily newspaper

The valiant resistance and fight by Hezbollah against the Zionist regime has reversed many of the previous political equations in the region and throughout the world. It has shocked the enemy, awakened the oppressed nations and peoples, and given them the incentive to stand up and demand their full rights

Jomhuri Islami, a hardline Iranian daily

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