What is going on between Isreal and Lebonnon?

Question

In all seriousness - please leave joking behind. I am pretty lost on what is going on w/ Isreal and Lebonnon. I have been without tv for the past couple of days and all of a sudden, I check CNN and see a new war.

I do know Isreal was looking for a soldier who was kidnapped, but I MUST have missed something.

Please, no "slamming" about the war - I just want to know details without name calling or judgement.

Answer 1

lebannnon is home to the hamas, which is a muslim extremist group who's soul purpose in life is to wipe isreal and all jews off the face of the earth. (it states so in their manifesto). just as isreal was leaving gaza and the west bank to palestine (run by the hamas now due to elections), the palestinians used tunnels to enter isreal and made some attacks, isreal retaliated, palestine retaliated by taking a young soldier captive, demanding that for the release of this one captive isreal must release over 100 known terrorists who are members of the islamic council. isreal of course is unwilling to do such and has been attacking palestine and now lebanon (again the hq for the hamas) as retaliation. this is something that has been boiling up for hundreds of years it's just finally coming completely to a head. and this is not slamming, but we should stay out of it, if we let isreal bury the hamas that's one less terrorist organization that we would have to deal with..

Answer 2

I just finished reading about this very topic and it had quite a twist.
Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel (course that isn't too advertised) So Israel is stepping up their retaliation. It seems that the Palestinians receive weaponry from Iran. Iran flies it in about once a quarter on a 747. Lebanon in the only airport with a runway long enough to support the 747. Thus the airport was the target. The Israelis also are trying to keep the kidnapped soldiers from being flown out to Syria. So the Israelis also bombed a smaller airfield near the border.

Answer 3

Hi Patty. A lot of pain on both sides. A lot of history. Zionists who want a certain territory promised them in the Bible. Islamic Fundamentalists who are under command by the Qu'ran to NEVER give land to an infidel, ever.

They are bound to clash. This time can be taken in context, which would sound like a clan feud going back a long time with wrongs on both sides, or it can be dealt with the single incident with the soldier who was kidnapped by digging a tunnel into Israel, killing eight soldiers, and kidnapping one.

Israel got back two dead, mutilated bodies last time they negotiated and released several dozen criminals. I don't think they'll do that again.

All of both sides complaints aside, having come from a formerly Islamic family, have no complaints against Israel. I know what Islam wants, and I hope they never get it. They are the most dangerous organization in the world today. Read the Koran, but understand that they still take ALL of it literally. If Christians did that with the Bible, I'd be up in arms against them, too.

Once Islam reforms, we may be able to spare the beauty that they have to share, but that is up to them.

If it comes to sides, I side with the ones who WEREN'T cheering when the Twin Towers went down.

Good luck Israel.

Answer 4

Hezbollah is a terrorist organisation formed many years ago to throw Israel out of Lebanon. In 2000, Israel withdrew from Lebanon and Hezbollah lost its raison d'etre. However, they continued to skirmish with Israeli forces along the border.

A couple of days ago, Hezbollah fighters captured two Israeli soldiers is such a skirmish. They want to exchange the soldiers for militants held in Israeli jails.

Israel refuses to negotiate with terrorists and blamed Damascus for the capture/kidnapping. Israel wants Damascus to disarm Hezbollah. Thus The Israeli military has bombed various installations in Lebanon, including Beirut Airport to apply pressure on the Lebanese government. The Israelis have also attacked a number of Hezbollah positions.

The Hezbollah guerillas have retaliated by launching Katyusha rockets into Israel and Israel has responded with even more force.

There seems to be an increasing escalation of the conflict.

IMHO, Lebanon must have control of its land, they cannot have independent armies running around within its borders and have no control... that's not soveriegnty!

Answer 5

Syria controls Lebanon and funds Hezbollah. Hezbollah has spent the last several days firing rockets and mortar from Lebanon into Northern Israel, killing several civilians. Then they crossed into Israel (which left Lebanon six years ago), killed three soldiers, wounded two, and kidnapped two others. These attacks against Israel are less an act of terrorism than of war. In war, unfortunate and tragically as it is, innocent civilians die. But keep in mind that this is a war of the Arabs' making, not Israels.

Answer 6

ok its a chess match comming to pinning opponents king and using your knights to pin em in place while you slide your rook into the back field while your opponents protect their queen ? well iif you understand that then you should understand this we need a further footing in the middle east and our troops r inplace now that if isreal needs us we will withdraw from current positions temperarily and run to their aid as that benifits the unitedstates intrest in the middle east this is just more hipe to distact the fact that we are the probblem over there and it only took bush 6.5 yrs to destroy clintons middle eastern diplomatic policys and and has achived what replublicans hope for a war between to major powers or the close call of a war to become reveredas pease keepers instead of war mongers but as for what is really happening over their listen to bbc for youll find a truelly different take on the sittation than the one our government wants you to believe ?

Answer 7

Thats the piont you are checking public news

All they do is leave out the good stuff our country is doing and say all the bad stuff.

But All those countries near Israel Have always been trying to destroy Israel. If they had it there way, all the Jews would be dead

Answer 8

Basically, the Lebanese government allowed Palestinian terrorists to launch rocket bombardments of Israeli cities.

Apparently the Israelis have lost patience with this sort of thing and have decided to put a stop ti it.

Answer 9

Hezbollah terrorists kidnapped some Israeli soldiers from their checkpoint in Israel... Israel holds all of Lebanon responsible for allowing that terrorist group to exist on their soil. So, Israel dropped bombs on Lebanese infrastructure. Hezbollah responded with hundreds of rocket attacks in northern Israel. Israel responded by dropping more bombs... that's about where we are now.

Answer 10

all heck is breaking loose, Isreal blew the heck out of Lebonnon's airport, rockets were fired into Isreal, Iran may be involved....too much to type.