No, it is disproportionate. The killings are indiscriminate. Its ironic, the Iranian president was criticized for suggesting that Israel should be wiped off the map, but Israel is actually doing it to Palestine and now Lebanon yet no one seems to care.
2006-07-16 00:10:40
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answered by Anonymous
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No way! you'd have to brainwashed by the media to support the Israeli aggression.
"basically the current stage of what's going on -- there's a lot more -- begins with the Hamas election, back the end of January. Israel and the United States at once announced that they were going to punish the people of Palestine for voting the wrong way in a free election. And the punishment has been severe.
At the same time, it's partly in Gaza, and sort of hidden in a way, but even more extreme in the West Bank, where Olmert announced his annexation program, what’s euphemistically called “convergence” and described here often as a “withdrawal,” but in fact it’s a formalization of the program of annexing the valuable lands, most of the resources, including water, of the West Bank and cantonizing the rest and imprisoning it, since he also announced that Israel would take over the Jordan Valley. Well, that proceeds without extreme violence or nothing much said about it.
Gaza, itself, the latest phase, began on June 24. It was when Israel abducted two Gaza civilians, a doctor and his brother. We don't know their names. You don’t know the names of victims. They were taken to Israel, presumably, and nobody knows their fate. The next day, something happened, which we do know about, a lot. Militants in Gaza, probably Islamic Jihad, abducted an Israeli soldier across the border. That’s Corporal Gilad Shalit. And that's well known; first abduction is not. Then followed the escalation of Israeli attacks on Gaza, which I don’t have to repeat. It’s reported on adequately.
The next stage was Hezbollah's abduction of two Israeli soldiers, they say on the border. Their official reason for this is that they are aiming for prisoner release. There are a few, nobody knows how many. Officially, there are three Lebanese prisoners in Israel. There's allegedly a couple hundred people missing. Who knows where they are?
But the real reason, I think it's generally agreed by analysts, is that -- I’ll read from the Financial Times, which happens to be right in front of me. “The timing and scale of its attack suggest it was partly intended to reduce the pressure on Palestinians by forcing Israel to fight on two fronts simultaneously.” David Hearst, who knows this area well, describes it, I think this morning, as a display of solidarity with suffering people, the clinching impulse.
It's a very -- mind you -- very irresponsible act. It subjects Lebanese to possible -- certainly to plenty of terror and possible extreme disaster. Whether it can achieve any result, either in the secondary question of freeing prisoners or the primary question of some form of solidarity with the people of Gaza, I hope so, but I wouldn't rank the probabilities very high."
Noam chomsky - Democracy now interview 7/14/06
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20060714103454851
2006-07-16 07:30:41
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answered by Anonymous
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Israel is a genocidal, aggressive, racist country that is the primary cause of all the violence in the Middle East. The jews have a persecution complex and an arrogance that is second to none, and they think because of their attitude the world owes them something. Israel is carrying out systematic genocide against the Arab peoples, and this is the cause of all the hatred despite what the politicians spew forth. Israel is one of the few countries in the world that deliberately targets civilians with impunity.
The real cause of the current violence in the Middle East over the past few days is NOT Hezbollah as George Bush keeps stupidly saying, and it is NOT the so-called "suicide bombers" that blow themselves up from time to time. Bush is giving a biased and self-serving pronouncement that carries not a grain of truth.The REAL cause is the Balfour Declaration of 1917..."His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people..." Thus began the string of events that led to the influx of great numbers of Russian and European jews into Palestine, and from this came the roots of the current crisis. THIS is the real cause of today's violence, not Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a manifestion of the cause, but not the cause itself. Short-sighted politicians twist or omit history to serve their purposes, and this is what Bush has done. The president of Iran was thinking of the cause when he stated that Israel must be destroyed. It may very well be that Iran will the the tipping point in the 70-year conflict that will settle once and for all the problem of atrocities committed by the jews against the Palestinian people.
The reason the US went to war in Iraq was not because of supposed weapons of mass destruction; that was but a political excuse. The real reason was to remove Saddam Hussein as a potential threat to Israel. To have said that the US was going to war in Iraq in order to provide for Israeli security would NOT have gone over well at home, so Bush twisted it to say that Saddam Hussein was a threat to the security of the United States (read instead "Israel"). Now that threat has shifted to Iran, and unless George Bush can muster support for eliminating this new threat to Israel, Iran might be able to provide the momentum to solve the Middle East problem once and for all.
2006-07-16 07:18:12
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answered by Kokopelli 7
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Israel has been under attack since 1948. Time and time again, there seems to be a resolution, Israel pulls back, and groups like PLO, Hamas, and now Hezbollah, cross Israel borders and commit terrorist attacks. And now they have captured Israeli soldiers. So in 1967, following the Six-day war, Israel captured the Gaza Strip as a buffer zone. It is for the security of Israeli citizens. They need this area for their survival. In 2005, Ariel Sharon withdrew everything and everyone Israeli in the Gaza strip. And where did that get them, a return of aggression and terrorism from Islamic militant terrorists. Israel could care less about occupying the Gaza Strip, if it was not for the need for survival.
2006-07-16 08:04:51
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answered by robling_dwrdesign 5
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Free Palestine!
2006-07-16 09:06:52
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answered by Becca 3
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Sure do...as soon as the unarmed and innocent Palestinians put down the guns, missiles and rocket grenades.
I really appreciate what you kind folks from Arab lands are trying to do here. The more you ask ridiculous questions, the more we stand up for what the US and Israel are doing in your lands.
2006-07-16 13:00:02
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answered by kartouche 4
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the Lebanese government basically got in bed with the terrorist when they failed or just flat out didn't disarm the terrorist like they were supposed to in the peace resolution in 200?. they harbor and protect terrorist, and when Israel calls them on it, the Lebanese gov acts all innocent and says that they aren't responsible for the actions of the terrorist,,,,,,,,,,,they just leave out the part where none of this would have happened if they had done the right thing from the beginning
2006-07-16 07:15:55
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answered by bart simpson 2
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Of course not, any human being will consider shooting and bombing unarmed human beings an act of coward mass murder.
It has proved in history that Israel's aim is to eradicate the whole Palestinian people and take their land while the whole world watches in ignorance.
The real question is how Israel could do that? while we think we live in a civilized world!
2006-07-16 07:09:52
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answered by moromoss 1
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of course not i don't support any 1 2 kill innocent any were i think its the time the world vie to start thinking who is the killer ND who is the one that kidnapping people ND the problem now is that every 1 is asking 4 his rights is gonna b terrorist i do agree that there is a lot of people out there who they r terrorist but the problem is that we not stopping these organizations of developing we r giving them the power by givin the power to the strongest side witch is Israel who is killin the kids nd beakin the rules
2006-07-16 07:17:43
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answered by Mr KNOWITALL 2
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I support any state's right to protect itself from hostile governments that commit acts against it that any other responsible state would not. Both recent cases were acts of aggression by both Hamas and Hezbollah that resulted in killing and kidnapping of soldiers.
Stop the agendas and look at the facts. Stop couching your questions in terms that propagandize and grandstand your cause.
I guarantee you that if armed Jewish paramilitary went across the border to provocate and attack Hamas or Hezbollah soldiers killing or kidnapping them Israeli authorities would answer for them and assist in bringing these people to justice and returning the kidnapped.
2006-07-16 07:49:48
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answered by 6
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