Why does everyone believe all the democrats are supporting Israel?

Question

I believe the US should stay out of the Mideast Conflict.
If Israel wants to fight the lebanese and they have the fire power to defeat them, why should we interfer?

What do you think?

Answer 1

Uhmmmm... Israel is not fighting the Lebanese they're fighting the Hezbollah militia that started this conflict and happen to be hiding in Lebanon.The only US soldiers in Lebanon are helping evacuate American citizens.

Answer 2

The US is already deeply embroiled in the Mideast/Central Asia.

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are going badly for us. This being the case, the terrorists/insurgents/rebels . . . whatever you want to call them, are empowered, knowing that time is on their side.

The gradually growing influence of The Taliban and the various groups in Iraq are spreading the wars throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. The USA is in the vanguard of combat.

The invasion of Lebanon is an extension of this. Bush wants to invade Iran, Syria, and Lebanon, has always wanted to, and gave Israel the green light to attack. War-by-proxy. The US can't keep sending more troops into battle, so, in this case, Israel, who is a benefactor of the US, is doing the fighting for us.

We have interefered completely. The US is calling the shots in Lebanon, not Israel. The Israeli Army will cease hostilities when the US tells them to.

And, as far as having the firepower to defeat Hezbollah: remember that Israel occupied Southern Lebanon for a decade, and all it did was strengthen Hezbollah. We are now facing a well financed, well armed, and highly motived guerilla fighting force that has proven itself many times over, so they enjoy widespread support.

Hezbollah enjoys widespread support not only because of their military victories against the Israeli Army, but because they are the only governing agency in Lebanon that has been able to build schools, hospitals, roadways and to provide food/water and security to the Lebanese.

Why does everyone think that the Israeli Army will defeat Hezbollah now? What are they going to do differently now than what they did in the previous occupation? If anyone thinks that attacking the civilian population is going to weaken the resolve of Hezbollah, then think again. When Hezbollah, once again, emerges as the only force who can stop the Israeli Army, then what do you expect the people of Lebanon to think?

Answer 3

I thought it was the Refucklicans that support Israel.

Answer 4

Not everyone believes in ANYTHING the same, that's another generalization so common on this board, but at least you are not afraid to ask. I'm neutral on the answer.

Answer 5

no............israel is killing innocent citizens destroying houses and organizations.....soooo....if israel is fighting 'hezbollah' all leabneses are hezbollah and why does america come to invade our countries and settle here claiming they r supporting peace soooo....why they take oil out of our lands and throwing rockets on cities destroying all of it killing thowsands of civilians.......and why they r still in iraq after the fall of saddam....???????

Answer 6

For one thing its not about the numbers, "You took 2 of our soldiers so we will take 2 of yours" You have to use you brain & look beyond the numbers! You also speak as if this is the first time the godless terrorists have attacked & slaughtered Israeli citizens. Open your eyes this murder preformed by Hez, Hamas( many Palistinians) has been taking place for years! It is ENOUGH! You are also forgetting that the Palistinian prisoners were captured for a reason, they are TERRORISTS! (the ones captured)
Quote...Iran wants to buy time -- time to continue pursuing its nuclear program, in the wake of growing international opposition. So to distract the world's attention, let's start a proxy war.

Hamas, the Palestinian terror group, on June 25, 2006, tunneled into Israeli territory, kidnapped one Israeli soldier, killed two more, and have since launched hundreds of rockets from Gaza into Israel.

Nearly three weeks later, the Iranian- and Syrian-backed terrorist group in Lebanon, Hezbollah, entered Israel, killed eight Israeli soldiers and kidnapped two others. The terror group then launched over 1,400 rockets into Israel during the first five days of the conflict, and even struck an Israeli ship with a missile -- showing more capability than experts assumed.

The European Union urged Israel to show restraint, expressing great concern "about the disproportionate use of force by Israel in Lebanon in response to attacks by Hezbollah on Israel." France's President Jacques Chirac said, "One may well ask if there isn't today a kind of wish to destroy Lebanon. . . . I find honestly -- as all Europeans do -- that the current reactions are totally disproportionate." (what anti-semitism! What would Mr. Chirac do if France was attacked day in & day out. CIVILLIANS being targeted ALL the time. HMMMM lets sit down & talk about it...yah right! The Vatican issued a statement saying, " . . . The Holy See deplores right now the attack on Lebanon, a free and sovereign nation. . . . "

Restraint? Hezbollah threatens to exterminate Israel and to defeat America. Hamas accuses the Israelis of "stealing" the Palestinians' land. The Hamas Covenant, Article Three, describes the duty of all Muslims: " . . . To fear Allah and raise the banner of Jihad in the face of the oppressors." Article Eleven clarifies their belief "that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf [property that generates revenue for mosques and religious schools] consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgment Day." Article Thirteen flatly states, "There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad."

World Net Daily's Joseph Farah, an Arab-American, years ago wrote a column titled "The Jews Took No One's Land." The Holy Land, writes Farah, was described as a vast wasteland in the 19th century. Beginning in the mid-1800s, Jews were the majority -- often an overwhelming majority, especially around Jerusalem. When Jews began to return to their "promised land" early in the 20th century, the desert literally began to bloom under their industry. Arabs followed, coming in large numbers for the jobs and prosperity. In 1948, when the United Nations partitioned the land into separate Arab and Jewish states, the surrounding Arab states immediately declared war. The Jews urged the Arabs to stay and live peacefully. Many Arabs chose to leave, to be rejected, used and virtually imprisoned by Arab power brokers.

Joan Peters, in "From Time Immemorial," a wonderful book about the history of the Israeli/Arab conflict over Palestine, quotes Khaled Al-Azm, Syria's prime minister after the 1948 war. Years later, Al-Azm wrote, "Since 1948 it is we who demanded the return of the refugees . . . while it is we who made them leave. . . . We brought disaster upon . . . Arab refugees, by inviting them and bringing pressure to bear upon them to leave. . . . We have rendered them dispossessed. . . . We have accustomed them to begging. . . . We have participated in lowering their moral and social level. . . . Then we exploited them in executing crimes of murder, arson, and throwing bombs upon . . . men, women and children -- all this in the service of political purposes. . . . "

Peters also quotes King Hussein of Jordan, who, in 1960, said: "Since 1948 Arab leaders have approached the Palestine problem in an irresponsible manner. . . . They have used the Palestine people for selfish political purposes. This is ridiculous and, I could say, even criminal." Israel withdrew its troops from southern Lebanon in 2000, and pulled completely out of Gaza in August 2005. Following the withdrawal from Gaza, Israel weathered some 700 rocket attacks launched from the former occupied territory. So much for the notion that this crisis turns on the withdrawal from "occupied" territory.

Bombay. Bali. Madrid. London. Cairo. Washington, D.C. And New York, and New York again. Spanish authorities foiled a terrorist attack on its National Court, Spain's center for prosecuting terrorists, after the Spaniards agreed to withdraw from Iraq following Madrid's train bombings. Much of the world, and unfortunately, much of America, refuses to get it. This is World War III.

Islamofascism seeks our destruction -- not accommodation, not conciliation, but complete and total destruction. Islamofascism does not end with the "recapture" of "historic Palestine." Our very existence -- democracy, freedom, religious tolerance and gender equality -- threaten Islamofascism.

If the Europeans don't get it, at least some of the so-called "moderate" Arab states do. In a dramatic departure from the past, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and several Gulf states blame Hezbollah, not Israel, for starting the war. Former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu notes that the terrorists call Israel "little Satan," and America the "great Satan." But, Netanyahu warns, sooner or later the Europeans will realize that terrorists consider them the "middle Satan."

Nothing short of civilization is at stake.

WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!

Answer 7

that's exactly what we're doing....sitting back and watching the show!


by the way, democraps (some exceptions) don't support ANYTHING related to the military.

Answer 8

let them do their thing.