LEBANON'S LESSON FOR ARABIA

AN INTENDED DEATH IN LONDON should scarcely be the pretext for a multitude of deaths in the Middle East. In London, the Israeli ambassador gets gunned down outside the Dorchester Hotel, and in the Middle East, hundreds of Arabs perish under a massive Israeli assault by air, sea and land. Twenty schoolchildren died in a bus hit by a bomb. A ruthless reminder of the Old Testament adage an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth - only nowadays it seems that the loss of one eye or one tooth justifies the extraction of several hundred eyes and teeth from the innocents.