When we attack Lebanon, it will not be the first time, that we have been in contact with the Lebanese, and it has the potential to be a very, very, very enlightened and positive relationship.

When the first Jews, the tribe of Dan, came to the Middle East, it was, according to my Danish sources, in collaboration with the Phoenicians who used us, as a way to crush the competition that they met by the emerging cultures of Greece and other cultures close to the Greek.

WE were their proxies.

After the escape from Egypt, we found refuge besides our old ally, and they really supported us a lot. They helped build the first temple, and taught us many, many things. How to write and how to do business.

The Phoenicians were the capitalist of ancient Middle East.

In a way you could say that Judaism is the tribe of Dan combined with Phoenicians religion.

The tree of life, has some very clear correspondence with Phoenician ideas.

Even the first placement of Israel, just besides Lebanon, is not a coincidence. We ended there, because we had a friend there.

It is in this historic context, that we should see the war in Lebanon.

They have been our friend before, we share a lot of culture, and we have to be VERY careful to be conscient about the relationship in the long run.

Isaiah prophesied Israel being the light upon the Nations for a reason, the reason is, that he and G-d wanted Israel to CONTINUE the good relationship it had three thousand years ago with its neighbors.

We have to reconnect to our old alliances to be at peace with our neighbors.

So when this war is over and done with. We should, by all means, turn the process around and rebuild Lebanon.

G-d bless the peace we have to find, to be an accepted part of the Middle East.