Israel waited quite a while to do this, essentially waiting until they had no choice.
With Lebanon "dark", perhaps other populations in the region will "get the joke". In any case, it's awful hard to fight a war when you don't have power, water, food or supply lines.
"The Lebanese govt has thrown in its lot with the Hezbozos, and now their population will pay the price."
Are you kidding me? What "price" for? They aren't military targets their talking about. And Israel can spin that BS about "supply lines" all they want, it's still BS. The supply line, if one is even needed, is through the Bekaa, a supposed supply line the Israelis could shut with small armor thrust.
Olmert blew it. Should have gone to the Litani and had something to trade. Instead he's going to beat up a government that fears Syria might come back in to "stabilize" it.
Maybe Olmert is just plain afraid to take on Hezbollah directly.
I think so too.