Men er der ikke under tiden en slags diskret og reel forståelse mellem Hafez el-Assads Syrien og Israel om at holde liv i en krig på libanesisk jord, som de to regeringer måske har behov for for at sikre deres interne stabilitet eller for hele tiden at kunne bede om mere international militærhjælp.
But is there not sometimes a sort of subtle and objective complicity between Hafez el-Assad's Syria and Israel to keep up a war on Lebanese soil, which both regimes perhaps have need of, in order to assure their domestic stability or to request ever more international military aid.