Israel's plans for further war in Lebanon have hit a major snag - Saudi Arabia don't want to pay for it if they get no say in the matter! Right, so Israel has reached the point where it thinks it can dictate the terms of Lebanon’s survival, and it’s doing it openly now, without even pretending the threat is conditional. Extremist defence minister Israel Katz stands in the Knesset and says Hezbollah must disarm by the end of the year or Israel will “work forcefully again in Lebanon,” and he ties that threat to the assassination they’ve just carried out in Beirut’s southern suburb as if that ki*ling is an argument rather than a violation. Then Egypt arrives in Beirut using a tone Lebanese officials describe as threatening, warning that a massive b*mbing campaign and a ground invasion may be imminent unless Lebanon complies. And in the middle of tha ...