International reactions to the 2006 Lebanon War 39% disapproved, and 16% were not sure. When asked to think about the events of the past week in the Middle East, 54% of Americans answered that their sympathies are more with Israel, 11% answered more with Arab nations, 11% both, 11% neither, and 13% not sure. In August 2006, University of Chicago political scientist John Mearsheimer accused Israel of using the kidnapping of its soldiers by Hezbollah as an excuse to attack Lebanon and start the 2006 Lebanon War. Mearsheimer stated that "Israel had been planning to strike at Hezbollah for months. Key Israelis had briefed the administration about
The Lebanon Patriot it was owned and edited by Mary V. Proctor Wilson. The paper was last issued in December 1936 when it merged with "The Western Star", another weekly in Lebanon. The combined paper was published as "The Western Star and Lebanon Patriot" from January 7, 1937, to June 30, 1938. This article was compiled from the catalog records of the newspaper in the OCLC database with information from the "History of Warren County, Ohio" (Chicago, Illinois: W.H. Beers, 1883) and "The Centennial Atlas and History of Warren County, Ohio" (Lebanon, Ohio: The Centennial Atlas Association, 1903). The Lebanon Patriot The Lebanon