OPINION - Israel's invasion of Lebanon could spark another toxic European migrant crisis

The natural but unspoken response of many of us to Israel’s “limited, localised and targeted ground raids” against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, or, as others might put it, the invasion of a neighbouring country, will be to feel very sorry for the civilian casualties of the conflict but to thank God that it’s not us. The invasion plainly risks the escalation of the conflict, but poor, tortured Lebanon is usefully far away, no?