IIsraeli Bombing airports, electricity stations, water stations, schools ,road ,media centers Legal war?

Question

Israel is violating every item in the 4 Geneva Convention

keep in mind Israeli will say most civilians are terrorists.

Answer 1

Security Council members are either supporting Israel or have trade interest with big powers. Only man whose voice is heard is President Bush. We hope he will do justice. His statements are not encouraging, I still have faith in this man who has the capacity to do arduous job.
Can any body suggest any alternative.

Answer 2

Israel is bombing these places because they are legitimate targets.Hezbola places their command centers in or near schools and populated areas to make better headlines.Also Hezbola has been targeting nothing but civilian targets.You might want to acctualy read the news before making a blunt statement.I think Israel should go even further.So far the have been asking people to leave before they bomb an area.

Answer 3

Your question conveniently leaves out the fact that Hezbollah started the crisis and is currently bombing hospitals and day care centers in Haifa. The real problem is that the Lebanese government never enacted UN resolutions requiring the disarming of Hezbollah and protection of the border.

Also, if you want serious debate then ask a serious question instead of spewing Islamic propaganda.

Answer 4

So are the terrorists who started it all! In fact, they don't even accept the Geneva convention!
What would you do if you got attacked by these terrorists... yell at them that they're not playing fair?
(Give me a Break!)
Yours is not even a rational statement!!!

Answer 5

Are you for real?

The ragheads are guilty of every human rights violations in the book.

You ragheads are mired in a seventh century world and a sick, demented religion.

Answer 6

If you rely on the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Associated Press for your news, it would be easy to get the impression that Israel is out of control – wantonly killing Lebanese and Palestinian civilians and provoking a larger conflict in the Middle East.
The lead headline in the Post yesterday, for instance, read: ''Israel intensifies assault on Beirut.''
Of course, if striking directly at the terrorists who launched hundreds of rockets at Israeli civilians in the previous three days and who struck inside Israel's border, kidnapping two soldiers, means assaulting Beirut, I guess that would be accurate.
But Israel is hardly targeting Beirut. It is targeting Hezbollah, a terrorist organization in league with al-Qaida and sponsored by Syria and Iran – a terrorist group that is killing and maiming Israeli citizens by the score.
Here's the way the third paragraph of the Post story reads: ''In a war that has witnessed an escalation each day, the asymmetrical nature of the conflict was laid bare Saturday: For each attack by Hezbollah since it captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid, Israel has inflicted a far greater price. It has systematically dismantled the country's infrastructure, displaced thousands of residents and instilled a new sense of foreboding and fear in the now-deserted streets of this brash, confident city still shadowed by the legacy of Lebanon's 15-year civil war.''

What message is any thinking person supposed to take away from such an account? Israel is out of control.

But a few points need to be made about such commentary disguised as news reporting:


Hezbollah has been operating freely in Lebanon as a de facto government for years – even after Syria withdrew from the country. The government of Lebanon has done little or nothing to take control of entire regions of the country, including its international airport, in which Hezbollah has set up a military infrastructure with one goal in mind – attacking Israel. How is Israel supposed to respond to attacks directed from those regions?

Israel has the military might to destroy Lebanon in a day – an hour, 30 minutes. Has it occurred to anyone that the Jewish state is demonstrating incredible restraint in focusing its wrath on only Hezbollah targets?

Stories are quick to emphasize the death and injury toll of Lebanese and Palestinians, but you have to scour the reports to learn that hundreds of Israeli civilians have been hurt and killed in rocket attacks targeted at towns and cities in the Jewish state.

How should a civilized nation respond to terrorist attacks within its borders? How did the U.S. respond after Sept. 11, 2001? Should civilized nations respond with force only equal to that which was used by its enemies? Or is it legitimate and proper for civilized countries to respond with overwhelming force – to discourage future attacks, wipe out those responsible and deter future attacks?
Again, it is as if my colleagues – as well as the United Nations, the European leadership and much of the rest of the world – believe Israel is the real problem in the Middle East.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Blaming Israel for the current violence in the region is the equivalent of blaming the U.S. for the terrorist attacks of September 11 and its response to them.

Let's review the key developments in this war:

On July 12, Hezbollah launched Katyusha rockets and mortar fire at the Israeli town of Shlomi. The same day, the terrorist group boasted of seizing two Israeli soldiers in the Israeli town of Shtula – killing eight other soldiers.

Then, and only then, did Israel strike back by bombing roads, bridges, power stations and other Hezbollah strongholds in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah then began a much wider rocket assault on Israeli towns, including the port city of Haifa, some 20 miles south of the Lebanese border. It was in this series of attacks that wounded more than 300 Israeli civilians, while killing at least a dozen.

I suppose there are those who think Israel should only respond with like force. Israel, a tiny nation with 1 percent of the population of its enemies in the Mideast, cannot afford to trade corpses. And, even if it could, it would not be good national security policy.

Israel's enemies should be grateful this American of Lebanese and Syrian heritage is not calling the shots in Jerusalem. Israel finds itself in this crisis because it listened too closely to the voices of appeasement from around the world – including from my colleagues in the international establishment media.

Evacuating from southern Lebanon and Gaza and other territories Israel conquered in hard-fought combat with no concessions from its enemies was bad policy. Israel encouraged the attacks it is now enduring. It's long past time for Israel to draw a hard line in the sand and punish severely those who cross it.

Answer 7

People musy live in peace.............