Do you believe that dead Lebanese civilians are collateral damage and not worth the life of a single Israeli?

Question

This is what the Media is reporting.

Bush administration officials don’t usually speak their minds, but John Bolton--the White House’s neo-con representative at the United Nations--explicitly gave voice to the U.S. government’s official double standard in dismissing any comparison between Hezbollah attacks and Israel acts of “self-defense.”

“It’s simply not the same thing to say that it’s the same act to deliberately target innocent civilians, to desire their deaths, to fire rockets and use explosive devices or kidnapping, versus the sad and highly unfortunate consequences of self-defense,” Bolton told a reporter.

Answer 1

I don't believe in collateral damage.

It's all bad and damn anyone who justifies death like that.

Answer 2

What don't you get? Instead of using lame rhetoric, use your brain. There isn't anything difficult about what John Bolton is saying. What he is not saying though is that while you have Hezbollah targeting civilians (heard any news about them targetting the tanks and military stacked at the border?), while the Israelis are going after military targets. While the Israelis have warned the civilians, the Hezbollah are making it very difficult for them to leave (remember, terrorists are cowards at the core). You also have the Hezbollah dressed as civilians too. Regardless, as in any war, loss of innocent civilian life on either side is always tragic. But targeting civilians is just criminal.

Answer 3

This, coming from the "every life is sacred" crowd.

What Israel is doing to Lebanon is "collective punishment"; An eye for an eye to the tenth magnitude= For 1 Israeli eye, 50-100 Arab eyes + 10 bridges + 3 airports.

The impunity of Israeli attacks against Lebanese civilian infrastructure speaks volumes about Israeli objectives.


These objectives go beyond merely pressuring the Lebanese government into “reigning in” Hizbollah. They are calculated to demoralize the Lebanese people and debilitate their economy. The attacks amount to collective punishment, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

And Condie Rice has said, "immediate ceasefire will not solve anything". Maybe she should go and sit in southern Lebanon for a while.

Answer 4

I think you need to remember that Israel responded to Hezbollah crossing into Israel and kidnapping two of it's soldiers. Hezbollah has been launching rockets into Israel from Lebanon for 6 years, I think that was ample time for the Lebanese to deal with Hezbollah. Civilians dying is horrible no matter where, but the Gov't of Lebanon has to take ownership of the fact that they have not dealt with Hezbollah and that Hezbollah fighters are hiding out within civilian populations.

Answer 5

Why all the Fuss about dead Lebanonesse Civilians? I have never heard any OUTCRY over innocent Israels killed by Car Bombs or by Suicide Bombers. The SAD and SIMPLE FACTS of war are Civilians do Die. How many Civilians died when we Nuked Japan????? Death of Innocents is NEVER an easy swallow no matter what country or origin. Let's HOPE that amist all the current killings that somehow an Eternal Peace will come. And the only death those there need fear be of OLD AGE.

Answer 6

A civilian is a civilian no matter where they are, and it is extremely pitiful for inoccent lives to be taken. The whole thing going on over there is nothing but a big mess and something that has been going on for such a long time. As an american and personally i believe that there is no way that we can even start to comprehend the destruction and mayhem that is happening. It really makes me sad to know that there are mothers, daughters, husbands, uncles, grandmothers, grandfathers etc, caught over there and loosing their lives: Isreali or Labanese. I dont know if i really answered what you wanted, but in the end, those lives in lebanon mean just as much as anyone elses lives, it is all sad and horrible.

Answer 7

ok, first of all you're a moron. With that reported...had they no longer attacked us on September eleventh, 2001, there does no longer be hundreds of lifeless Afghan and Iraqi's. there is no way we've killed thousands of hundreds of Iraqi and Afghan squaddies. they do no longer perform in sufficiently massive communities for us to kill extra effective than a handful in each and each scrimmage. For the female that reported we killed tens of millions in Baghdad. how a lot of human beings do you think of surely stay in Baghdad? we would have had to have killed each and every citizen observed. that's no longer how the protection rigidity has been coping with the situation on account that day one. the warriors on the floor are on status orders to no longer fire till fire upon. So whether a million human beings were killed, this is because of the fact they have been dumb sufficient to attack our squaddies. the possibilities of that are infinitely narrow. never has there been a conflict that claimed a million lives. If we combine all the foremost wars jointly there have been probable decrease than a million lives lost, apart from Japan. The bombs on Japan do no longer in all probability count variety as a conflict. If the civilians had became over the terrorist like they're meant too, then they does no longer be caught interior the circulate fire. we expect collateral harm. that's the reason we've stricter risk-free practices on the airports and with passports and visas. we could continually nonetheless lock down our borders, yet we are able to could anticipate an administration that cares approximately our risk-free practices as much as they do our funds.

Answer 8

The American government has always been known as speeking with a twisted toungue! Or what is good for one is not good for the other.
If in the middle East we can speak of self defence it is the side of the Palestinians who act in true self defense, in defense of their country and homes. Their land was forcefully taken from them and given to the Israeli and they now, like Hezbollah, live in exile in neighbouring countries, just because that land did indeed belong to the Israeli 2000 years ago!
I truely would like to see the reaction of the Americans, if their country would forcefully be taken away from them and returned to the Indian nations, who rightfully owned all of America only 500 years ago!

Answer 9

I think the Lebanese are Idiots for not recognizing the possibility that Hezbollah would get them in hot water with Israel. If the Lebanese people wanted to live in peace they should not have cultivated Hezbollah in their backyard! Someone has to take responsibility for their actions and stop blaming the USA. OH, and stop whining.

Answer 10

Lebanese elected the Hezbollah, they let Hezbollah put rockets on the roof of their houses, they may be called civilians, but to me they are accessories after the fact.

You walk like a duck and quake like a duck, guess what, Your a Duck!!!

Answer 11

They wouldn't be attacking Lebanon if Lebanon didn't attack them first. And more than one Israeli has fallen victim to terrorist attacks from the opposing side as well.

There are innocent victims on BOTH sides of the conflict.