BEIRUT—The building in Beirut’s southern suburb had already learned the language of war. When I went to see it on Sunday, after the latest Israeli strike, it was not the image of sudden destruction that stayed with me, but the sense of repetition. Two floors had been hit. Two people were killed. The concrete carried older wounds from previous attacks in recent weeks, as if the target had not been newly identified but revisited. There are strikes meant to erase, and there are strikes meant to