Do you think Israel's offensive against Lebanon has gone too far, and the United States should stop supporting

Answer 1

We need to stop urging Israel to "show restraint" and let them finish the job of getting terrorists off their border. They have a right to defend themselves. So, no, they didn't go too far, they should have gone further.

Answer 2

In my opinion..........

Lebanon knew EXACTLY what they were doing, guided/coached by Iran I'm sure! Israel has been more than cooperative and patient (as mentioned here already.....) and should have nuked them by today's standards. Lebanon and Syria are intertwined with Iranian money and power. Israel should NOT have stopped!

If there is a WW3, and I'm betting there will be, it will start with:

Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and maybe Afghanistan, and a few other rogue states banding together against:

Israel, United States, England, India, Pakistan, and maybe Australia and Canada?

This is "from the hip", but you can bet I'm close here :)

OH, and like WW2, Korea and China will be pitted against us as Japan was, probably coaxed into it by Putin! Of course, Japan will side with us then, and South Korea might go north, not sure, then Taiwan will be our new base out there, along with Japan, and PI (The Philippines) will choose sides, it will get messy, and God knows what Africa, Venezuela and other countries who hate us will do! :(

Answer 3

It's over? jeeze get a reality check. This is nothing more than a break in the action being used by terrorists to resupply. They call for peace when they are getting their butts kicked. Israel should not have pulled any forces out and we should have delayed a lot longer. Israel's biggest mistake was acting timid. Hezbollah is 40% of the Lebanese government so Lebanon is a state controlled by terrorists under cover of a legitimate but paper government.

Answer 4

Here is what was recently in the news:

"BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said in a TV interview aired Sunday that he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it would lead to such a war.

Guerrillas from the Islamic militant group killed three Israeli soldiers and seized two more in a cross-border raid July 12, which sparked 34 days of fighting that ended with a cease-fire on Aug. 14."

My answer: Israel has a right to defend itself. We can't just ignore terrorists year after year, allowing crimes to continue without consequences. Slapping a terrorist on the hand saying, "Now, don't do that anymore!" does not work! I'm glad that Israel is taking terrorism seriously.

Answer 5

The USA will never stop supporting Israel. Never. We send them about $2 billion a month now. Bush just sent Lebanon $400 million of our tax dollars to repair the damage done by Israel. Have you looked up how much cash goes into Congress from the Jewish all over the world, you should look at that. Organized crime is alive and well in America, some call it Congress. I call it crime.
Also check out who we owe our $9 trillion national debt that the Republicans have run up for working class tax payers.

Answer 6

Thinking that US will stop supporting Israel is a kind of imagination... yes, the offence against Lebanon went too far, and the destruction that happened in Lebanon will be built by flesh and blood, while the destruction that happened in Israel will be built by the money of American tax payers.

Answer 7

No, with or without US support, i'd still say Israel should have continued the attack BUT they should try and hit more military targets instead of civilians.

Why?

Think about this way, you kidnapped one of my corporal, i ask him back, you refused. So i fly some planes over your parliament house, just to show you, i'm serious, i want my corporal back. You still refuse. No problem. I kidnap half your cabinet, and now, i become the bad guy, and want to trade 20 ministers for one corporal. You refuse, and you kidnap 2 other soldiers. What other way is there to resolve this?

Lebanon, or more correctly, Iran and Hizbollah, wants to make another crazy prisoner exchange? Maybe another 3000 POWs, for 1 hostage?

I'd say Israel was pushed far enough.

Additional food for thought, look at it this way, Substitute Israel for US, and Hizbollah, for maybe Iraq? Or Cuba? Or Russia? And tell me again if you will go on ban the war marches.

I'd bet my money you'd say roll the tanks.

Answer 8

It's over but I think the UN should have stayed out of it & let Israel get rid of Lebanaon. They are just a future threat with their support of Hezbollah & allowing Syria & Iran to send arms across their border for Hezbollah.

Answer 9

No, they have every right to defend themselves, they also have every right to make offensive moves against a government that was supposed to remove all arms from Hizbalah along time ago. Isreal is surrounded by countries that want to blow it off the map. They have to take this kind of action to insure these other countries think twice before invading her.

Answer 10

Israel's offensive action was too little if anything. The US should give Israel all of the B-52's and bombs it can drop and let them go at it. It may surprise you but the rest of the Mid-East would not be as unhappy about it as you may think. The 'hezbollah' and palestinians are hated by the intelligent muslims, they don't want them, no one does. It would be an act of mercy to put them out of their miserable existence.