Sparks: UN Security Council to meet as Israel pushes deeper into Lebanon

You need no council of kings to tell you that a man's home is his castle, and he will defend it against any invader.

The dynamo of force accelerates beyond the control of any council calibrated for a world of coal and steam.

Fear of a rival's growing strength drives this incursion far more than any stated grievance ever could.

Emergency meetings are the poultice applied after the fever of conflict has already spiked.

The council's solemn debate is but the conscious rationalization for the unconscious repetition compulsion of force.

That secret thought you dismiss as monstrous - that all land is ultimately taken, not given - is the very engine of this action.

A most logical and moderate proposal to secure one's borders by continually expanding them into one's neighbor's.

This green branch, severed from its root, cries out with the same fire that now consumes the southern suburbs.

Control only your judgment of this invasion, for the land itself lies outside anyone's true possession.

To understand this conflict, one must walk the road from Beirut with those who carry their homes on their backs.

How fortunate we are that these necessary strikes occur only in the suburbs, where the buildings are presumably uninhabited.

'Precision operations' - a phrase that means the opposite in every newspaper that prints it.

Forget the council's words and feel the real forces at work: the weight of the pack, the grit in the eyes, the price of ground.

We have modernized the instruments of invasion but preserved the three-thousand-year-old habit of eating our own.

A meeting in a distant room cannot stop a single boot from taking one more step onto another's land tonight.

This spontaneous eruption of force reveals more about the bankruptcy of diplomacy than a thousand council resolutions.