What caused Israel to attack Lebanon out of no where?

Question

I'm stuck at my moms for another week w/out cable tv. I'm next door at my uncles house but I still have no idea what is actually going to happen.

Answer 1

Israel agreed to pull out of southern Lebanon years ago, under the conditions that Lebanon would remove Hizbully from their southern regions. Israel did their part, and Hizbully just dug in. Then last week Hizbully raided Israel and kidnapped 2 soldiers. Israel is just getting rid of a hornets nest that it should have gotten rid of permanently in the first place. I hope they get every last one of those hizbully idiots.

Answer 2

It may seem that the Israeli attack against terrorists in Lebanon was "out of the blue" but in fact Israel has been suffering years of attacks by these terrorists. The government of Lebanon is either unable or unwilling to stop Hezbollah from their actions, and the international community literally doesn't seem to care. In my opinion, Israel is fully justified in their actions, which were triggered when raiders crossed the border into Israel and kidnapped two soldiers. In any other situation, this would be considered an act of war by the country of Lebanon.

Answer 3

Hezbollah captured 2 Israeli soldiers. Although Hezbollah is part of the Lebanese government, it is a seriously minority party consisting of around 20% of the Parliament and has no political power.

Israel all out attacking Lebanon for the actions of a minority party.

Can the Republicans control the actions of the Democratic party here in the states?

This would be like if the democratic political party here in the states were to capture some other countries soldier and that other country started blasting cities that are democratic strongholds like Detroit or LA.

Israel is totally overacting and is now destabilizing the entire region. Isn't that one of the alleged reasons that we invaded Iraq? Because Iraq could possibly destabilize the region.

Answer 4

Israel is sick and tired of being bombed.The Hezbollah which is a terrorists group in Lebanon,attacked an Israeli parole,killed and captured their soldiers for no reason.They are being encouraged by Iran and Syria and also last week the militant ha-mas in Gaza captured an Israel soldier and Israel is bombing the crap out of them both.I hope they are annihilated the monsters

Answer 5

the cause of the war:

No More Tears: Benny Morris and the Road Back from Liberal Zionism

Joel Beinin

(Joel Beinin, an editor of this magazine, teaches Middle East history at Stanford University.)

Books Reviewed

Benny Morris, 1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990, second edition, 1994).

Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).



Haganah militiamen expel Palestinian Arabs from Haifa, April 1948. (Agence France Presse)

On July 11, 1948, Aharon Cohen, director of the Arab Affairs Department of the socialist-Zionist Mapam party in Israel, received a carbon copy of a military intelligence report. Israel, a state less than two months old, was embroiled in a war with neighboring Arab states that would last until 1949. The document in Cohen’s hands analyzed the reasons for the flight of 240,000 Palestinian Arabs from areas which had been allocated to the Jewish state by the November 1947 UN partition plan and another 150,000 from the Jerusalem region and areas allocated to the Arab state. Cohen was upset to read the report’s conclusion that 70 percent of these Arabs had fled due to “direct, hostile Jewish operations against Arab settlements” by Zionist militias, or the “effect of our hostile operations on nearby (Arab) settlements.”[1] One month before Cohen received this report, Mapam’s political committee had issued a resolution opposing “the tendency to expel the Arabs from the Jewish state,” in response to Cohen’s warnings that such operations were taking place.

Over the course of Arab-Jewish fighting between 1947 and 1949, well over 700,000 Palestinians were made refugees, the majority of them by direct expulsion or the fear of expulsion or massacre. The largest single expulsion occurred after Israeli conquest of the towns of Lydda and Ramla in the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv corridor during July 9-18, 1948. Some 50,000 Palestinians were driven out of their homes in these towns by Israeli forces whose deputy commander was Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel from 1974-1977 and 1992-1995. Some two dozen massacres of Palestinians were perpetrated by pre-state Zionist militias and Israeli forces, the most infamous of them on April 9-10, 1948, at the village of Deir Yassin.

Answer 6

What the news. Hezbollah killed 3 Israeli soldiers and captured 2 others.

Answer 7

because they thought that lebanon kidnapped two of israels soldiers now theres a big war but they didn't even kidnapp any body like i think it was a misunderstanding

Answer 8

Where have you been??? the two kidnapped Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Answer 9

Ah, duh, listen to the news and you would know. They went across the Israel border and kidnapped an Israeli soldiers. An act of aggression on the part of the Hezbollah terrorist organization. I say Smack 'em, and Smack 'em hard.

Answer 10

Out of nowhere! Ummm!! Pretty stupid question!!

Do you watch the news?