ISRAEL’S intensified bombing raids over Lebanon are pulling the entire region towards a war of unknown proportions.

Tel Aviv’s Western sponsors will try to portray Hezbollah as the aggressor, given its deputy leader Naim Qassem’s announcement of an “open-ended battle of reckoning” with Israel. 

But the Lebanese militia’s escalating rocket fire follows Israel’s murderous exploding-pager stunt last week, and its subsequent serious bombing of Beirut.