quick thought... July 17th, 2006 - 12:09AM
Steve Gilliard:…”Hezbollah has an army, and bases, and they aren’t at the Beirut airport, or the power station or in a fleeing convoy of civilians. And the IDF isn’t stationed at the center of Haifa or Tel Aviv. Killing civilians to make a point is despicable on either side. But to bomb Beirut to force a civil war, the same civil war they couldn’t force on the Palestinians, is a doomed policy.”…
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It’s comments like that that show the irrelevancy of the blogosphere when it comes to the world outside of a fiber optics cable.
It kills me how we remain silent about the daily violence perpetrated by Hamas and Hezbollah on Israel, like a gnat buzzing on the ass of an elephant. But when the elephant swats at the gnat, we go ballistic about the elephants use of overwhelming force.
The only answer is for the Arabs to accept the existence of Israel. Ariel pulled out of Gaza, he turned back the West Bank settlements, and the Palestinians respond by electing Hamas (that is the face of Arab democracy, Mr. Bush) and Iran rattles Israel’s cage with a few Hezbollah rockets.
What do they expect? These folk have been killing each other of Jacob’s bowl of soup for centuries know. Only the weapons have changed.
i think steve’s point is valid. if israel were attacking hezbollah’s bases nobody would have their hands raised in the air screaming, “why!?”
instead, israel is shelling the infrastructure of lebanon, killing innocent people and forcing the government of lebanon to either return fire (bad move) or go straight ahead after hezbollah. and if the gov. attacks hezbollah, well, they’ll be dealing with one million people, while a good chunk of the lebanese army belongs to the same sect of islam. in other words, they’ll be starting a civil war.
the thing that kills me about this flare up is that the tipping point came over the kidnapping of two israeli soldiers. “we do not negotiate with terrorists” is a good policy, but not when the response is to bomb the country that houses the kidnappers. if you don’t want to negotiate with terrorists, then hang up the phone. israel is playing right into hezbollah’s hands with their response.