Can I have some opinions on Israel invading Lebanon?

Question

Can you tell me your political orientation. Also can you tell me your opinion about Israel, Hezbollah, and Lebanon.

Answer 1

Republican -

My opinion on this situation is as follows:

Israel has the right to defend itself. Also, it isn't Israels fault that the Lebanese keep letting Hezbollah do what ever they want. It also isn't Israels fault that Hezbollah is using the Lebanese as human shields.

Answer 2

Israel left Lebanon because of a UN resolution but at the same time and in the same resolution, Hezbollah was supposed to be disbanded. Obviously, that did not happened and Hezbollah has remained and for six years have fired rockets into Israel... they kidnapped a soldier and that was the last straw. Since the UN can not make countries obey UN resolutions, Israel is simply carrying out the world's will that Hezbollah disarm. If Lebanon, Syria and Iran cared about the UN and civilian life, this would not have happened. The same happened in Iraq... there was a resolution that the UN would not enforce (since most of them were getting Oil for Food kickbacks from Saddam)... it is also going to happen with Iran's nuclear program and N Korea...

Answer 3

Hezbollah wants to wipe Israel off the face of the earth, yet Israel has done nothing about the threats. Hezbollah, who is supported by the people in southern Lebanon, started shooting rockets into Israel murdering Israelis. Hezbollah also kidnapped two Israeli soldiers. Israel is doing what it must to survive and to honor the men who were kidnapped by doing everything it can to get them back. Hezbollah is a cowardly organization that hide behind the innocent! I'm a Republican.

Answer 4

The Israelis and most of our media are lying as usual.

But here's the truth people :)

"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."
Professor Noam Chomsky(Jewish) - Democracy now! interview 7/14/06

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/14/146258

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When the American people stop their government from sending a total of $90 Billion of their taxes to Israel to support their barbaric acts then the fighting will stop.

http://www.vestedowl.com/counterpoint_results.htm

And also when the American people stop their governments from vetoing any chance of a peaceful settlement, then maybe there will be an agreement.

http://www.action-for-un-renewal.org.uk/pages/isreal_un_resolutions.htm

Answer 5

When Israel invaded Lebanon and imprison their citizens, it is Lebanon's fault. When they stole the Palestinian land, it is the Palestinians fault. When they put them in refugee camps it is the Palestinians fault. When they try to fight back, it is their fault. So when Hitler started to kill the Jews can it be that Hitler had a vision of the present times and was trying to rid the world of a faultless race? My opinion is that the Arabs shouldn't have had any pity for the Jews who were being thrown out and hunted like the animals they are by giving them refuge in Arab land since the Europeans wouldn't annex their land for a zionist state. So much for your screwed up political orientation. Where is your conscience?

Answer 6

The holy wars of territory over there have been going on for hundreds ... if not thousands of years. Listen to Megadeath "Holy wars" might fill in some of the blanks.

Answer 7

i believe Israel has every right to defend itself.

Answer 8

GO ISREAL!