34 of the 56 dead in attack are CHILDREN and we put NO pressure on Israel to cease fire?

Question

This mornings yahoo news makes it clearer ever day. Israel is given a free pass to murder children and Condi Rice merely says "its a difficult thing" NO call fo immediate cease fire? People PLEASE cant we do something? This is not israel defending itself! Anyone who still thinks that is caught in the manipulation. who, out ther, like me (either in the last few weeks or even years)started out believing that israel was justified, but after really looking into the facts saw hypocricy and unjustified violence to a shocking degree? What are your ideas for pushing our leaders into demanding a cease fire? not that it would work, but we still need to act like thinking americans with solutions! what can we do?

Answer 1

Just like with Hurricane Katrina, people were warned and told repeatedly to LEAVE! But as usual, you are going to blame Israel, the U.S., the President, Condileeza Rice and anyone else. Put the responsibility where it belongs.
What is it that you don't get; Hezbollah is storing their weapons in Mosques, in PEOPLE'S houses, they are hiding BEHIND the people in Lebanon. You are thinking EXACTLY the way they want you to think.....YOU are the one buying into the maniupulation!

Answer 2

Well at least Israel warns the people to get out and if they stay I believe that is their own fault. Now why wont hezbollah do the same thing? If Israel were to have a cease fire that wouldn't solve a thing, things would only get worse because hezbollah would only become larger and stronger! Why should anyone give into terrorists? This would have never happened if and only if Lebanon would have done what they said they were going to do in the first place in accordance with UN resolution 1559, dont you agree? Hezbollah uses high-density residential areas as launch pads for rockets and heavy-calibre weapons. They dress in civilian clothing so they can quickly disappear, the militants carrying automatic assault rifles and ride in on trucks mounted with cannons. What other country sustains 1,500 indiscriminate rocket attacks into its cities — every one designed to kill, maim and terrorize civilians — and is then vilified by the world when it tries to destroy the enemy's infrastructure and strongholds with precision-guided munitions that sometimes have the unintended but unavoidable consequence of collateral civilian death and suffering?
When the United States was attacked at Pearl Harbor, it did not respond with a parallel "proportionate" attack on a Japanese naval base. It launched a four-year campaign that killed millions of Japanese, reduced Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki to a cinder, and turned the Japanese home islands to rubble and ruin. Disproportionate? No. When one is wantonly attacked by an aggressor, one has every right — legal and moral — to carry the fight until the aggressor is disarmed and so disabled that it cannot threaten one's security again. That's what it took with Japan. Maybe you should get both sides of the story.

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Answer 3

I sympathize very much with the call to a cease fire, as there are altogether too many such "accidents" going on.

I can understand the US position that a deal more comprehensive than another simple cease fire, which have never been adequately observed by Islamic militants, would be very much better.

But I think that the US agreement with the Israeli response to Hezbollah has the unintended consequence of reinforcing resistence to a solution that would end this killing and bombing.

However, here the Arab countries and groups are bewailing the death and destuction, but here also they are not coming to the table with any other solution than "tell Israel to stop it."

Meantime, Hezbollah continues as usual embedding themselves in amongst civilians and civilian places and complaining and finger-pointing when civilians are harmed. Using civilians as human shields behind which to conduct acts of violence does not give them the moral high ground.

And where are morals in a war?

Answer 4

It's called war. Civilian casualties, while tragic, are inevitable in war.

The US has killed thousands of Iraqi children, out of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, during the current invasion of Iraq. Where's the outcry to pull out of Iraq?

Israel is fighting against an enemy (Hezbollah) that is deliberately firing rockets at non-military targets in Israel. Hezbollah is also using Lebanese civilians as human shields, which is why the civilian casualties.

A cease fire won't work, because Hezbollah won't stop firing rockets into Israel. It's that simple. Israel has offered, since the beginning, to cease fire if two conditions are met. 1. Hezbollah returns the hostages they captured. 2. Hezbollah pulls back its armed forces from the Israeli border and stops firing rockets into Israel.

Hezbollah won't stop, and they've vowed to continue until they have wiped Israel off the face of the map. Every time previous that Israel has unilaterally ceased fire, Hezbollah just keeps attacking. Suicide bombers. Car bombs. Rockets. All Israeli civilian casualties. Israel has no choice but to fight back, or to just allow Hezbollah to kill Israeli civilians (and children) with impunity.

War is tragic. But this isn't a war that Israel started. And Hezbollah won't stop until they are stopped permanently.

Answer 5

I agree. A pro-Israel stance by the US is to be expected but we should NEVER be pro-war; of course that would be a little hypocritical of us wouldn't it? Neither side is right if they continue killing people. PEACE AMONG ALL NATIONS!!! BRING OUR TROOPS HOME AND STOP THE FIGHTING IN ISRAEL!!!!

Lindsay D - I am indignant about the violence that has led to Israeli deaths as well; I have been for decades.

Answer 6

actuality Israel broke the ceasefire with an air strike on Nov 4th killing assorted civilians actuality Israel planned this genocide 8 months in the past even in the previous the 1st end fire all started.

Answer 7

If half of you morons would get this indignant over Arab terrorists killing Israelis maybe this whole thing could have been avoided... why don't you whine and cry when a suicide bomber blows up innocent civilians in Israel???

Answer 8

I think what you mean is no PUBLIC pressure. I'm sure there's a lot of behind-the-scenes pressure of various kinds. Remember that the nature of these things is that not everything can be told to the public, because telling the public also tells the enemy.

Answer 9

Get the animals called hezbollah to stop their aggression into Israel and I assure you Israel will stop. All they want to be is left alone and live peacfully in their country.

Answer 10

Tell Hezbellah to quit hiding among the children?