Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East
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The activist ‘peace camp’ was divided, with only a small minority coming out against it. Even after hundreds of Lebanese civilians had been killed, one of the movement’s intellectual luminaries, the novelist Amos Oz, wrote that ‘there could be no moral equation between Hizbullah and Israel‘, because ‘Hizbullah [was] targeting Israeli civilians wherever they [were], while Israel [was] targeting mainly Hizbullah.’34 The day after the war’s only conscientious objector went to prison, the leader of Peace Now, Yariv Oppenheimer, told Haaretz newspaper that he felt like strangling him.