HAS ISRAELS attack on lebanon only caused a somewhat peacefull people to declare war on ISRAEL?

Question

I just watched a report from beruit in lebanon and it does not look good , a downtown area of apartments and retail stores and some offices heavily bombed.LEBANON people are vowing now to fight to the death rather then live under the constant threat of attack.HAS the excessive support of Israel made the region unstable to the point of people attacking with nothing more then stones and knifes against f-16 fighter jets , cruise missles and apache helicopters.
THESE people in lebanon seem completely convinced to fight to the ddeath at this point.what have we done. what have we done.

Answer 1

The war is with Hezbollah & if the Lebanese Government really wanted to get rid of these terrorists they should be helping Israel to rout them out of their country.

Answer 2

2 words. Franz Ferdinand. Not the band, look up your early 20th century history. Everyone involved was itching for a fight. Lebanon just happened to be in the middle. The lebanese are traders, not fighters, but their syrian cousins love a fight and run half the country kind of like the mob runs half of new jersey. With Iran backing syria and us backing israel, we now have 2 nuclear capable powers in indirect opposition using the smaller countries as leverage. Lebanon is just a focal point.

Answer 3

Hezbollah's popularity and support is increasing by the day. That's got to suck for Israel. Lebanon has no one to defend it except it, those who were against it are now in full support for resisting Israeli terrorism. At a time where the international community is doing nothing for the Lebanese, Hezbollah emerged as a winner. This is no good for Israel, dumb of them for thinking war was the solution. But again the IDF and Olmert don't think they just react forcefully.

Answer 4

especially between Lebanon & Israel were not as bad since 2000 but this surely has created that environment...

Last week, Palestine captured an Israeli Soldier; in response the Israeli forces destroyed the town of Gaza. Following day Lebanese Guerilla forces captured 2 Israeli soldiers, Israel responded with over $600million worth of damage to Beirut’s airport alone with estimated cost of $5 million in lost revenue per day, plus the destruction to infrastructure (highways, schools, houses, hospitals, power plants, etc). The Loss of life & damage on both side of the border for 3 captured Israeli soldiers.

on the other hand
It disclosed that more than 8,000 inmates are being held currently inside the Israeli jails including 83 female prisoners in Majedo prison, 385 minors, distributed on 256 Israeli jails and concentration camps. Nearly 40 prisons afflicted with chronic diseases, 5000-6000 has been on remand, the number of the administrative detainees stand at 1250 inmates with no charge or trail, and 99% of Palestinian prisoners are subjected to all forms of torture.

Answer 5

The people you are seeing interviewed are Hezbollah supporters, not mere Lebonese civilians.

Those people have sworn for many years to wipe Israel off the map and have supported the military arm of Hezbollah to that end.

Hezbollah started this conflict, not Israel. Israel told them right away how to avoid warfare and gave them a timetable. When Hezbollah told them "no" ... Israel did what it told them it would.

That's really not that complicated. Please don't think it's Israel against civilians. Israel is using very precisely-guided weaponry and hitting relatively few uninvolved "civilians" ... while Hezbollah is using UNGUIDED missiles to target Israeli cities.

Which one would you say is targeting civilians?

Answer 6

If by peaceful you mean Maniacal......the general idea is to get the Lebanese people to realize that as long as they let the likes of Hezbollah exist in their country (who stand for the violent destruction of Israel) then they will be succeptible to this type of retalitory attacks from Israel. As Bush so explicitly stated over an open mic "If Syria stopped the Hezbollah from rocketing Israel...this sh*t would be over"....
Go get 'em Israel

Answer 7

No, the war against Israel is older than any living person. Israel is just defending it self. Most of the middle east would like to see Israel wiped off the map because of their screwed up beliefs.

Answer 8

Israel has had problems with a terrorist team talked about as Hamas and Hezbollah. the Israelis gave again the land that both H's needed. then the Hamas individuals kept firing missiles into Israeli territories. then they abducted a Israeli soldier. then the Israelis were given pissed off and moved into Gaza. then the Hezbollah faction were given mad on the Israelis for shifting antagonistic to Gaza that they abducted 2 infantrymen from the Lebanon Israeli border. this truly were given the Israelis mad that They invade Lebanon because the Lebanese authorities helps the concern team Hezbollah. those terror communities were inquiring for a wrestle and they were given it. now they prefer the international community to stop the Israeli's yet their cries are falling on deaf ears.

Answer 9

Let's see, the Lebanese are willing to fight to the death to kill the terrorists who have inflitrated their country in order to make war with Isreal. Stop watching the kool-aid mfg's. Get some O2. Think critically, study some history.

Answer 10

Excessive support of Israel? What website have you been on? Very few people seem to support their right to defend themselves. If the Lebanese are, or in your thoughts were, such a peaceful people, why did they support the Hezbollah control of their government? I think you are misguided.