I say ‘from Israel/Lebanon’ in the title lest you think this is a link to yet more chat about the situation: au contraire this is from people caught up in the situation.
It’s an absolutely moving, spine-chilling (and essentially totally accidental) dialogue from both sides of the border by a couple of random airport/travel/plane-watching enthusiasts, one of whom (BEYFlyer) happens to be at Beirut’s aiprort, the other (Dovster) happens to be at/near a tiny airport in northern Israel; the chat room progresses from Jul 12th onwards beginning at Message #25; scroll down to find it, and then progress via the ‘page number’ buttons at the bottom through hundreds of gripping interchanges, beginning here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=563147&page=2&pp=20
(the link comes from John Y. Jones on Livejournal)
There are also numerous other near-real-time sites such as NZ Bear’s Lebanon/Israel blog aggregator site.
