Can someone please ask Israel to take a commercial break while the rubble can be shifted?
Perhaps Israel needs to take more than a short commercial break. So does Hezbollah; though I suspect that when they finish scrapping the bottom of the barrel for that last Katyusha that had been saved for a rainy day, they will stop anyway.
Israel, and their patron saint, George B (and, indeed, the Hezbollah) must reach for Webster's Dictionary and look up two terms.
"Israel is going for the underlying cause of trouble in the Middle East", said George Bush in a recent press conference. As a visibly aging Tony B looked on (he wore the ex-pression of a man on whom it had dawned just then that the WMD thing was George B's April Fool joke on him), George B told the world that the current war on Lebanon was aimed at removing the underlying cause of all rotten things. And as always, he said this with the naughty smile of one who has stolen the last cookie.
The National Security Doctrine of George B's administration also openly favours a policy of pre-emption against America's enemies. Do not wait for them to hit you, go after them and take them out.
Ah well. Can there be any dispute with such transparent logic?
May we request that before more violence is planned and executed, the words 'underlying cause' and 'enemies' are looked up and translated in a language that we all understand?
The children of Qana, who arrested the flight of those laser guided bombs, do not meet that definition (unless one really stretches it so much that it will wrap the globe several times over). The grocery shopkeepers, flower-sellers, shoe-shine boys and school-goers of Beirut's southern district also don't seem to fit the description. Nor do the 13 men, women and children of Ghaziyeh in Israel, who wandered into the path of a Katyusha. 
Ah, the real underlying cause + enemy is Hezbollah then.  
But hey, wait a minute, Hezbollah came into being only in 1982 after Israel had given Lebanon a similar round of attention (Wikipedia says, "Hezbollah was formed to combat the Israeli occupation following the 1982 occupation of Lebanon"). Here is an enemy created in response to previous attempts to remove some other underlying cause and eliminate another avtaar of enemy.
So, while we applaud the right of US, Israel and everyone else with a gun to go removing underlying causes and enemies, may we suggest that perhaps identification of the correct underlying causes and enemies might save everyone all the exertion?
After all we want to remove, not add, to the brigade of enemies and the underlying cause of all bloodbath.
The underlying cause, may we suggest timidly, is the existing and growing political hatred between the Western and Islamic worlds. Let us not quibble now over who started the fire. There are children in Lebanon who will not wait for us to resolve academic questions of history. The trick now is for wisdom (what is that, for Lord's sake!?) to take a step forward in every right thinking heart and stop this hatred and distrust right now. We need to roll back Mr Huntington's wave and address human causes of this estrangement. There are people who are hurting and no matter who they are - the victims of Katyushas, the widows of 9/11, the blood-splattered memory bearers of Mumbai, the sullen youth of Middle East, the nameless dead of Afghanistan, the sidewalkers of Bagdhad who are routinely embraced by unknown suicide bombers - their hurts need to be addressed. With a little love-filled empathy. That is the leadership that the world wants.
And those are the underlying causes and enemies that need to be put to sleep.
And no guns needed for this party please. Dress easy.