[Preechr]

What we DO know, and this is what you seem to want to avoid addressing, is that Hezbollah fighters are using civilian casualties to their advantage. Is it that great of a logical leap to wonder if they might also be actively causing civilian casualties? You seem to want to wrap this all up in "It's all just propaganda," yet your objection to the war stems from the fact that innocent people are dying.

If the only reason that innocent people are dying is that Israel is dropping bombs and shooting their guns, then of course Israel should stop doing that! Is that the only reason, though? I seem to remember that the root cause of the entire conflict is the very existence of Israel, itself... and I'm pretty sure that Israel isn't the one against that.

The other, more important, reason that people are dying is that certain non-Israeli people with crappier military means are willing to do whatever it takes to KILL Israel. Push them and their country into the sea. Wipe it off the map. Exterminate them. Rid us of them. These words sound familiar to you?

I don't particularly like Alabama. I don't have a problem with Alabama having a state of it's own, but I'm kinda tired of it being located right next door to my state. I'm pretty sure Florida, Tennesse and Mississippi feel the same way, too. If we took a vote here in the South, I believe the majority of people would agree that Alabama, the Trailer Park State, should probably be moved somewhere else in hopes that Yankees will have about 18 million less reasons to think everyone south of the Mason-Dixon is basically just another Alabaman.

Do my feelings on that issue give me the right to join a militia founded upon the express goal of blowing shit up until that happens? I understand that this is a poor analogy in that Alabama is the crappiest state in the South, where Israel is the opposite in it's region, but the question is whether or not people have the right to exterminate one another for ANY reason.

Israel agreed to the cease-fire because Israel has a problem with the loss of innocent life for any reason, even it's fight for it's own existence... even when that loss of innocent life could very well be engineered by it's enemies. Don't forget that Hezbollah kills those Lebanese that oppose it's imposition upon Lebanon. Please keep in mind that there is UNDOUBTEDLY score settling involved when some of these intentional collateral casualties are selected for martyrdom for propaganda's sake.