what is this war all about israel and labanon in laymen's english who has done what to who? or shall we say wh

Answer 1

Please read all of the previous questions on this very topic....but very briefly Iran funded Hezbollah to set up camp in Lebanon and threaten Israel. Israel and Hezbollah got into a fight. As a result, the Lebanese people got screwed. If Iran wanted to fight Israel, it should do so outright instead of using Lebanon as a battlefield.

Answer 2

This war is about Israel getting sick of the daily bombings so they are retaliating by attacking Lebanon. The reason they are going after this country is because for the past 30 years, southern Lebanon has be ruled by a militant group called Hezbollah. The last straw was when Hezbollah crossed the border and captured four soldiers and refuse to this day to give them back.

Answer 3

Here is the quick answer. Israel was dealing with a group called Hamas that had captured an Israeli soldier. When another group called Hizballah (Party of Allah) snuck across an internationally recognized border and captured 2 more Israeli soldiers and killed 8 soldiers. Hizballah is a militant radical Islamic group that runs the southern part of Lebanon and have sworn themselves to the destruction of Israel. Israel demanded the soldiers be returned. Hizballah made their own set of demands and the skirmish broke out. Israel used the opportunity to bomb areas that Hizballah operates. Hizballah are known for launching rockets toward civilian Israeli targets (towns & villages) from civilian areas. Hizballah gets support, training, weapons from Iran primarily and some from Syria as well. Israel has agreed to a cease fire currently and international forces are being moved into Lebanon to control the area.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH has this article:
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/07/18/lebano13760.htm

Answer 4

You cant say who's wrong or right by taking into consideration recent events only. You need to study the history of Israel, see how it has occupied the lands of Palestine and Lebanon, kept 10,000+ Arabs in prison, some for more than 25 years, etc etc.

Recently, however-

o Hezbollah kidnapped 2 soldiers who crossed the border, and asked for the ransom of the 10,000 prisoners.

o Israel, as usual over reacted (or was it preplanned?) and attacked Lebanon...

Answer 5

From The Nation:

"Hours before the UN ceasefire went into effect, Israel quietly announced that it would, after all, be willing to negotiate a prisoner exchange with Hezbollah to secure the return of the two soldiers whose capture sparked the recent war.

Had Israel accepted Hezbollah's offer of a negotiated exchange five weeks ago, more than 1,000 people--the vast majority Lebanese civilians--would still be alive. In addition, more than a million people would not have been displaced from their homes; entire neighborhoods in Beirut and whole villages in the south of Lebanon would still be intact; and the Israeli army would not have reduced Lebanon to an environmentally devastated wasteland.

Rather than negotiating an exchange (as they have in the past), the Israelis launched a wave of air and artillery attacks on civilian targets in Lebanon.


When Hezbollah retaliated with several salvos of rockets, Israel angrily announced that no country--other than Lebanon, presumably--can tolerate such attacks, and it stepped up its bombardment of Lebanon, striking the international airport in Beirut as well as other civilian targets, and threatening to set the entire country back twenty years.

Far too many people in the US accepted Israel's claims at face value.


Hardly anyone bothered to put the capture of the Israeli soldiers (which was referred to as a "kidnapping," not a term normally used with reference to soldiers in wartime) in historical context. It was depicted as having come out of the blue, rather than being understood as one event in a continuous series originating with Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982-in whose aftermath Hezbollah was born. When the rockets started flying, no one seemed to notice that Israel had brought punishment on its own civilians by having chosen to respond disproportionately to a minor border skirmish, and to an attack on its army by bombing defenseless civilians.

Overnight, as the captured soldiers faded into the background, a consensus seemed to emerge in the US, according to which the bombing of Lebanon was really about Israel's need to protect its northern border from Hezbollah rocket attacks.

We were saturated with the message that Hezbollah is a shadowy terrorist organization that has spent years showering northern Israel with rockets--and that Israel had both the right and the duty to protect itself from such attacks once and for all. Thus was history instantaneously rewritten to Israel's own specifications.

In fact, from the moment that Israel ended its last military occupation of Lebanon in 2000 until the explosion of the current war on July 12, UN observers report that there was not a single casualty as a result of a confirmed rocket attack by Hezbollah on civilian targets in northern Israel.

A number of alternative explanations for Israel's bombardment of Lebanon have been proposed, most of them involving the Bush administration's regional ambitions. It may have been another attempt to create "a new Middle East," or, as Seymour Hersh suggests, it may have been a dress rehearsal for a future US war on Iran. "

The rest can be found on

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060828/makdisi

Answer 6

The first answer on this page as a accurate as it gets.

The answer just before mine fails to mention that Israel didn't start the fight. It's very one sided.

Answer 7

It's called European Nordic World Order, that has failed.

Answer 8

It all started centuries ago. Why don't you read and STUDY the Bible?

Answer 9

i know its just so confusing mostly terroism or something or just greed to get all the money