Is there any thing we can do to stem the flow of blood from this farcical "self defense" which will probably only lead to the further isolation of Israel from its neighbours and the rest of the world?
2006-07-19 22:20:49 · 12 answers · asked by Brends 2 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims and Christians has produced a century of warfare and terrorism of the sort we are seeing now. Israel fights Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south, but its most formidable enemy is history itself.
This is why the Israeli-Arab war, now transformed into the Israeli-Muslim war (Iran is not an Arab state), persists and widens. It is why the conflict mutates and festers. It is why Israel is now fighting an organization, Hezbollah, that did not exist 30 years ago and why Hezbollah is being supported by a nation, Iran, that was once a tacit ally of Israel’s. The underlying, subterranean hatred of the Jewish state in the Islamic world just keeps bubbling to the surface. …
The smart choice [for Israel] is to pull back to defensible — but hardly impervious — borders. That includes getting out of most of the West Bank — and waiting (and hoping) that history will get distracted and move on to something else. This will take some time, and in the meantime terrorism and rocket attacks will continue.
2006-07-19 22:40:42 · answer #1 · answered by Violent and bored 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As long as America will keep supporting Israel these things will, go on! No other country could do what they do and get away with it.
I heard on the news that Ezbolla (Can't spell it) had fired a rocket on Israeli land so israelis counter attacked as they did but then, my idea is ... That the tit for tat doesn't work! i lvied long enough in Belfast on teh so called peaceline when things were really bad (70s and 80s) to know that!
Then right now it seems to be that war against terror means wrecking Muslim countries and Syria and iran could well prove next targets. It saddens me so much because the state of israel wouldn't have been if the Jews hadn't suffered so much during WW2 with concentration camps etc. Millions of them died due to fascism. How they can now act as proper fascists themslves, and still get support from the USA is beyond my understanding. And as long as it goes on ... They will carry on. More people will die, more people will lose their homes etc. It's an absolute nightmare and shouldn't be allowed to go on.
2006-07-19 22:56:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in a house, then someone shoves me out into the backgarden and takes over my house. This person says i cannot come in the house and when i do im only allowed in certain rooms. So i try to kill him to get him out of my house, he moves me to the back of the garden and now im really restricted.
Then this person with the help of his friends has an argument with the neighbours who are angry with the way he treated me in the first place. The reaction to that is to send his family into some of the neighbours house to watch over them to make sure they cause no trouble in the house that HE TOOK OVER.
With a scenario like this - there will never be peace, forget it. It is not going to happen. Too much hatred unbalanced sacrifice and hard headed people are involved
2006-07-20 00:10:02 · answer #3 · answered by intelligensio 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not really. They've made up their mind about how they're going to handle this and it's not really our place to try and dictate otherwise. I'm not a big fan of Israel (the existence of the country, not the people), but on this matter, I don't see them as being out of line. Much like we said, "If you harbor terrorists, we will take you out" to Afghanistan, they are essentially saying this to Lebanon. It's just very unfortunate that the Lebanese people have to suffer for the crimes of Hezbollah. I agree to some extent that Israel is doing an unnecessary amount of damage to Lebanon's regular people (killing their economy, for example), but so long as they aren't carpet bombing residential neighborhoods, I don't see what moral ground we have to stand on to tell them to stop.
2006-07-19 22:27:57 · answer #4 · answered by djbreslin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There must be a ceasefire. Total and utter, on both sides. Then perhaps we can move forward and TALK. I for one am sick of seeing crying children on the news and knowing that Monkey George and Poodle Blair will do nothing about it in case they upset Israel. Both sides should stop the killing and sort it out once and for all.
2006-07-19 22:26:21 · answer #5 · answered by Roxy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
send weapons to lebanon. It is clear that Israel has no respect for its neigbours. And after all the abuses they have done before and their stonedeaf attitude towards criticism. maybe a good beating is the only way left to get their feet back down to earth and relieve them from the idea that they are invincible.
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2006-07-19 22:28:56 · answer #6 · answered by peter gunn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
syria and the rest of the arab world need to let lebanon
be their own country,
and not use lebanon as a stageing area to further their aims.
right now it's about people not in control of their own country.
that's what this is all about.
as a christian zionist i proudly stand with the jewish people and will do so until i die.
2006-07-19 22:28:44 · answer #7 · answered by john john 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hoy ignoramus try looking back a bit its the UNs fault, they have the mandate to disarm Hesbullah , and they have done FFFF all about it
2006-07-19 22:26:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
israel will win in this time but not sure in the future wwar III
2006-07-19 23:45:39 · answer #9 · answered by imran n 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WWIII(world war 3)?
2006-07-19 22:38:32 · answer #10 · answered by 1234 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋