The Israelis are a modern Army. Hezbollah is a group of terrorists. Armies wear uniforms to separate them from the civilians, Hezbollah are terrorists who do not wear uniforms and hide among the civilians. This causes the civilians to end up getting caught in the cross fire.

While the Israelis are targeting Hezbollah, it’s hard to separate them from the civilians, Hezbollah, as a terrorist organization, targets civilians and uses highly inaccurate rockets to do it.

The biggest difference is that while the Israelis are evacuating their civilians out of the combat zone, Hezbollah is preventing theirs from leaving. Basically while the Israelis are evacuating the civilians to safety, Hezbollah is cowardly using theirs for human shields. Why is the collateral damage so high on the Lebanese side? Because Hezbollah is doing its best to cause as many civilian casualties on both sides as a means to rally international support against the Israelis. They know that in a toe to toe fight, they have no chance against the Israelis.

The real bitch of the whole thing is that had the 2000 UN peacekeepers actually been there to enforce the appropriate UN resolution and been armed to do so, Hezbollah would’ve been forceably disarmed and forced out of Lebanon years ago. Of course the Lebanese government agreed to disarm Hezbollah, by force if necessary, but with the threat of assassination, no Lebanese politician was willing to push the issue. Who is responsible for the civilian casualties in Lebanon?

Hezbollah who refuses to allow the civilians to evacuate the area?

The civilians who allowed Hezbollah to accrue over 10,000 katyusha rockets and hide them in their residential neighborhoods? (Do you think they’d have accrued that many if one person had let the Mossad know what was going on?

The Lebanese politicians who refused to abide by the treaty they signed to disarm Hezbollah?

The UN who refused to enforce its own resolution to disarm Hezbollah and force them out of Lebanon?

Or is it Israel who is responding militarily to an attack on their country by a group who has sworn to destroy them?

Personally, I think it’s a damn shame that this whole thing is happening, but when NGOs are allowed to commit acts of war with the complicit consent of the government of their base country, the attacked country is going to respond and the host country has no right to complain.

BonBon, and Israel has never harassed or murdered Palestinians or Lebanese???

Both sides are in the wrong, and are responsible for the bloodshed and misery.

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“This the fault of Bush and the Neocons! And all of us knuckle-dragging rightwingers! That’s the point!”

I haven’t heard anybody say that yet.

Now if we just let the U.N., the Democrite leadership, and the Liberals take over and us Neanderthals (who do not understand the subtle, high-level viewpoint) would just get out of the way, the Left would solve this problem, everyone would be happy, and it would be the age of Aquarius!

FAR OUT, man!