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Atrocities said:
Choosing a side souly because you hate jews is simply wrong.
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First off, this is an insulting accusation, I have absolutely no prejudice against Jews. The fact that I don't agree with you, and I don't believe that Israel can do no wrong doesn't make me an Anti-Semite.
Um, Hezbollah attacked them by committing a terrorist act. They have every right to respond.
I agree, Hezbollah "started it", and Israel had to respond. I'm saying their response was out of proportion to the original attack.
Those roads, bridges, and buildings that were bombed were destroyed in order to help slow the rearming and escape of Hezbollah terrorists. In war, bridge, roads, rails, cars, and buildings are often destroyed dilibrately. It is not Israel's fault that the terroristed used hospitals as bases of operations thus putting inocent, and not so inocent, Lebanese in harms way. In war people die, that is fact.
So you're saying that, no matter where the terrorists are, you have to blow your way through innocents to get at them? Did any of the bombings Israel did stop Hezbollah from firing rockets? Nope, they accelerated towards the end. Bombing roads just stopped innocent people from getting away from the fighting, and prevented aid workers from getting in to help the aforementioned innocents. I also agree that, in war, a country's infrastructure will always be a target. But ask yourself this: Did Israel declare war on Lebanon, which owns all the infrastructure? I thought they declared war on a terrorist group. So go kill the terrorists, don't go rampaging through the entire country blowing hell out of everything just because you can!
I'm also not saying it's Israel's fault that Hezbollah holed up in hospitals, and I know that some collateral damage is to be expected in any military campaign. But hospitals? Come on. You don't just go in and blow up a hospital because you
suspect (yes, suspect, not know) that some terrorists might be using it as a base. Supposedly, the reason for fighting terrorists is to stop innocent people from being killed. Yet, if you kill innocent people to prevent innocent people from being killed, are you actually accomplishing anything? Oh right, I forgot, they're not
your innocents, so they don't count.
And honestly, who the hell are you, who the hell are we, to judge Israel? Do you live there? Have you lived there? You, and indeed all of us, do not know anything about what it is like to live in that region and therefor have no right too pass judgement on those who live there.
I have every right to pass judgement on what those groups do there. It is my right to form my opinions based upon the facts, and to decide who is and is not "right" or "wrong" after analyzing those facts.
But lets say you're right. Lets say I don't have any right to pass judgement. Then what right does the US government, or any government, have the right to pass judgement on what happened there? What gives them the right to demand this and that and the other thing, while I don't have the right to even decide on my own who is right and who is wrong!!??
Did you ever experience what it was like to live in a concentration camp in Nazi Germany? No, you haven't. Yet I bet you've passed judgement on the Germans of the era for what they did there. What gives you the right to do that, if I don't have the right to judge the Israeli's and Hezbollah??
And I promis you, since they got away with what they did, they will rearm and do it all over again.
And due to how Israel acted this latest time, they'll have more support than ever. Don't you think that Israel bombing hospitals and bridges and roads and power plants might effect how well their recruiting amongst the Lebanese people will go once "next time" rolls around? Israel just shot themselves in the foot with how they acted.
[b]And will you be their to critize Israel when they respond?[b]
If they act the same way as they did this time, and act no better than terrorists themselves, then yes, I'll be there to criticize Israel again. Yet you seem to be missing someting; I wasn't blaming Israel for everything, I said they had to share some of the blame for this most recent mess.