Ever wonder why Israel must crush/defeat hezbullah, hamas, etc?

Question

Read the part entitled "A difficult lesson". If you still don't get it, you have got to be an American liberal or French.

http://bogieworks.blogs.com/treppenwitz/2006/07/thanks_i_needed.html

Answer 1

a great story and lesson- especially for mewling pacifists who constantly whine and ask "why do we fight?"

Answer 2

Israel cannot defeat Hamas of Hezbollah. These groups are resistance movements that grew out of Israeli occupation and aggression. The problem grew not out of Arab attacks upon Israel (these were reactions to atrocities of Israel) but out of Zionist and Israeli terror upon Arab peoples. Most of the western news media and particilarly the Bush administration have it all backwards. Israel is always presented as an innocent victim of Arab terror, when the reality is the exact opposite. The atrocities and aggression that Israel keeps committing upon the Arabs will not cause the Arabs to love Israel. The hatreds will only be inflamed. This hatred will fuel the resistance against Israeli aggression as it always has, and there will never be peace until Israel says "I give up. I was wrong." The Arabs too, have a right of self defense, but the jews call it terrorism. What about Israeli terrorism?

Answer 3

Israel needs to kick the butt of all those terrorists groups so they can get to the average Moslems and finally make a lasting peace. They did it in Egypt and they can do it again.

As long as the world needs oil, and the Middle East has it, nations will try to play nice with the oil rich countries. Did anyone care about the slaughter of the African people by Idi Admin Dada? What about the civil war in the Congo, or the current one in Sudan? These countries don't have oil and are poor ones so they can be easily forgotten. When Kuwait was invaded though the entire world got interested. The US got involved because Iraq was a major Russian ally, and because of the oil.

The US has long been a supporter of Israel, and the US puts a lot of stock in loyalty, which Israel has shown. Israel also likes to buy American equipment making them a good customer, and one of the US’s few allies in the Middle East. The US is in a sticky situation though; they are involved in Afghanistan and Iraq so any obvious support for Israel will only increase the problems and the terrorist attacks. All that the US can do is let Israel continue its campaign, and encourage them to only attack military targets. Since the US has absolute veto power in the UN they can make sure that the UN keeps its nose out of Israel.

Of course the US wants peace, and they don’t want a repeat of the War in the 80’s. That last time that Hezbollah and Israel had “a knock down drag out” conflict Israel invaded Lebanon. The UN sent in peacekeepers lead by the US Marines. Hezbollah didn’t want to stop their little war so they drove a truck bomb into the US Marine barracks and killed most of them. That’s another reason why the US doesn’t want to get involved. The war was very unpopular so Israel doesn’t want to repeat that mistake again. Their military is ready to invade, and has captured some areas of Lebanon, but the Israeli government only wants to invade Lebanon as a last resort.

It is no coincidence that Hezbollah is attacking now. Hamas started this by kidnapping Israeli soldiers. As soon as it got too tough for Hamas to continue the fight Hezbollah took over. Hezbollah was founded by Iran in 1982 and heavily supported by Syria. Its self-proclaimed purpose “is to drive Israel into the sea.” In the 1960s Egypt and Syria wanted to do the same thing. They were both preparing for war when Israel beat them to the punch. In the Six Day War they kicked Egypt’s butt and then turned around and beat up on Syria. So Syria doesn’t want to fight Israel. President Carter helped to negotiate a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, which shows that Moslems and Jews can live next to each other. Israel has even given some of the land captured in the Six Day War back to Egypt. Iran is an enemy of the US so they want to support groups that are against Israel, one of the strongest US allies. The Shaw of Iran was a brutal dictator, like Saddam. He had to be to prevent a civil war between the Shiite and the Sunni. When the Shaw was overthrown the radical Moslems took over and kidnapped the US Embassy. This is a big violation of International Law. The US won’t forget that and the Iranians consider the US to be an enemy. A lot of the oil profits are spent to fight this war against Israel. Also the last time Iran tried to make a nuclear bomb Israel bombed the plant. That’s why the new plant is buried so deep underground that it might take an atomic bomb to destroy it. Because of all this Iran is a big enemy of Israel, but they don’t want to fight them directly; they will lose a conventional war against Israel.

As long as the situation remains the same Syria and Iran will fight their proxy war against Israel. Violence and hatred only breeds more violence and hatred so it is going to be very hard to stop the violence. Terrorists are only a small group of the population, and they hide in the general population. That’s why the Lebanonise death toll has grown so great. Israel has attacked the airport where the rockets have been flown in. They have attacked the road to Syria and attacked banks that support terrorist actions.

I don’t think that the nation of Israel should have been founded in the Middle East. The Moslems and Jews were enemies for a long time. After the fall of the Roman Empire barbarians and Moslems took over. The Moslems kicked the Israelis out and have held that land every since, despite four Crusades by the Christians to take over the area. Due to guilty feelings after WWII in 1948 Israel was founded. Back then no one knew about the oil reserves in the region. It is that oil that is keeping the fight running. The majority of the population does not want to fight Israel. But, when the terrorists attack Israel can only fight back and the terrorists use that to raise anger in the population. The terrorist groups like Hamas, the PLO, and Hezbollah also serve as support organizations for the population. The build hospitals and run schools (which teach hate against Israel and the West) and provide unemployment assistance, which makes them popular among the population. So the fighting continues.

I do think that the Jews deserve a homeland and now that they have been given one they have every right to defend it. I support that right and hate the terrorist groups. These cowards can’t win a conventional combat, and don’t have the support of the majority of the people, so they fight their struggle using terror as a weapon.

Answer 4

The same reason why America wanted to capture Bin Ladin

Answer 5

Fight Islamic fascism!
Liberty Over Liberalism!

Answer 6

Very well written and makes a point that the world had better learn sooner than later.

Answer 7

I have no problem with both sides completely wiping out the other, as long as we're not part of it.

Answer 8

Just take a look at the media these organizations put out
http://www.memritv.org
http://www.pmw.org.il/tv-hamas.htm

Answer 9

No, I don't wonder. It is about a little thing called survival. May God bless and keep you.

Answer 10

THANK YOU
He said it in the words that anyone should be able to understand.