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I love all of these "I told you so" tsk-tskers who are so unsympathetic to fellow citizens who are being held hostage by a foreign government.

You've seemed to have fallen in love with this phrase. If you were being 'held hostage' by Israel, you'd be on a plane home by now. To hold someone hostage, they have to have control over you. The only nation that can walk up to you right now and place you under their control is Lebanon. And it was a lack of action on the part of the Lebanese government which led to this fiasco.

I understand your impatience, I'm sympathetic towards your desire for more information, but I'm also a realist. You're just as much a hostage target today as you were a week ago. Arrangements are being made, action is being taken. In the mean time, realize that you're in relative safety with probably better communication than the majority of Americans who became stranded.

Please let me know what sovereign nation is preventing me from chartering a boat to Cyprus: Lebanon? BZZZ. Wrong Answer!

It is just very frustrating that it is Israel, not Lebanon and not Hizbollah/Syria/Iran, that prevents me from leaving. But if it will help eliminate Hizbollah, I'll sit here for another six months.