Whom here believes the US was not proactively supporting Israel in the destruction of Lebanon?

Question

Read this and then temper your comments, and we are surprised we are targets of 'Islamo-Fascists' as Bush refers to them. Freedom Fighters by the rest of the fair independent world.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/5230514.stm

Answer 1

but why dear humanist? fighting Hezbollah i can understand it. but why USA gave Israel support to destroy all our country? what for? and if Bush consider islams as terrorists how come he destroyed a whole country...half Christians, half muslims...I still not believe what they did to us....

Answer 2

The US is not the only guilty party here.... if you look back at your history you'll see another major 'super-power' do it's bit... but the US is certainly the most guilty of Proactively Supporting Israel's Crimes against humanity..... and anyone who disagrees with that is basically saying that people living in their 'rightful' home that was given to them should not defend themselves or protect their land.

Yes, terrorist acts are heinous, but I find the continuing atrocities that have been committed by 'Dominant States of Power' to be heinous, as well.

So who's is worse.... I don't know... but I refuse to find anyside more guilty than another, as far as 'committing crimes against humanity' goes.

God Bless America and those that want change for the better.

Answer 3

I believe the US was not strong enough in supporting Isreal againts the muerderers and terrorists of hezbollah.
And no im not surprised we are targets, the US is the sybol of freedom and the Islamofacists have stated that they want the world under muslim law

Answer 4

Of course the US supports Israel, we rushed cargo planes of missiles and cluster bombs to them. The US has spent billions to arm Israel, and deliberately slowed any diplomacy to stop the bombing until global pressure mounted.
The slow response was to allow Israel to bomb Hezbollah to it's knees. It did not, it killed Lebanese civilians and destroyed the infrastructure.

Answer 5

In the days after Hezbollah crossed from Lebanon into Israel, on July 12th, to kidnap two soldiers, triggering an Israeli air attack on Lebanon and a full-scale war, the Bush Administration were complicit. “It’s a moment of clarification,” Bush said at the G-8 summit, in St. Petersburg, on July 16th. “It’s now become clear why we don’t have peace in the Middle East.” He described the relationship between Hezbollah and its supporters in Iran and Syria as one of the “root causes of instability,” and subsequently said that it was up to those countries to end the crisis. Two days later, despite calls from several governments for the United States to take the lead in negotiations to end the fighting, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that a ceasefire should be put off until “the conditions are conducive.”

The Bush Administration, however, was closely involved in the planning of Israel’s barbaric attacks. President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney were convinced, current and former intelligence and diplomatic officials told me, that a successful Israeli Air Force bombing campaign against Hezbollah’s heavily fortified underground-missile and command-and-control complexes in Lebanon could ease Israel’s security concerns and also serve as a prelude to a potential American preëmptive attack to destroy Iran’s nuclear installations, some of which are also buried deep underground.

According to a Middle East expert with knowledge of the current thinking of both the Israeli and the U.S. governments, Israel had devised a plan for attacking Hezbollah—and shared it with Bush Administration officials—well before the July 12th kidnappings. “It’s not that the Israelis had a trap that Hezbollah walked into,” he said, “but there was an agreed plan.”

The Middle East expert said that the Administration had several reasons for supporting the Israeli bombing campaign. Within the State Department, it was seen as a way to strengthen the Lebanese government so that it could assert its authority over the south of the country, much of which is controlled by Hezbollah. He went on, “The White House was more focussed on stripping Hezbollah of its missiles, because, if there was to be a military option against Iran’s nuclear facilities, it had to get rid of the weapons that Hezbollah could use in a potential retaliation at Israel. Bush wanted both. Bush was going after Iran, as part of the Axis of Evil, and its nuclear sites, and he was interested in going after Hezbollah as part of his interest in democratization, with Lebanon as one of the crown jewels of Middle East democracy.”

The United States and Israel have shared intelligence and enjoyed close military coöperation for decades, but early this spring, according to a former senior intelligence official, high-level planners from the U.S. Air Force—under pressure from the White House to develop a war plan for a decisive strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities—began consulting with their counterparts in the Israeli Air Force.

Answer 6

US supported Israel only in the destruction of Hezbollah, a terrorist organization. Israel had no beef with the Lebanese people.

Answer 7

WELL if the entire world refused to allow flights to land in there countrys that supplied arms we might have some peace.

Answer 8

Not me. What a shame all those innocent lives of the Civilians. Duh-bya has no soul!!

Answer 9

Would it count if I said I wished we weren't?

Can we just give peace a chance?

Answer 10

Of course we were, anyone who disagrees with your assessment is uninformed, naive, or developmentally disabled.