derrida said:
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I wouldn't have a problem with this if Israel would just send in commandos (backed up by air support, obviously) rather that the current ineffective and needlessly deadly bombing campaign.
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To bad you already blew it by previously questionings israel's right to existance. Stop bullshitting. We don't know how effective the campaign has been. In 13 days or whatever it's been, we have less then 400 casualties total. The BBC has admitted that figure includes some combatants too. By all military accounts, the precision has been unprecedented. Effective? Too early to tell.
BUT... the majority of Lebanon is untouched. The majority of Beirut is untouched.
What I think you're asking for is a replay of the Lt. Colonol Ron Arad incident - the pilot has been missing since 1986, when his plane went down, and he was kidnapped by the Amal Milita. Nobody knows his whereabouts even today, though Israel tried diplomacy to negotiate for imformation. DIPLOMACY FAILED.
Maybe what you want to replay is the 1994 incident when Israel sent a spot team into the West Bank to retrieve a kidnapped soldier, Nachson Wachsman, who held up in a Bir Naballah house by the same terrorists that Rabin had allowed to return to the region as part of his peace offerings. The villagers surrounded the house, and attacked Israel's "commandos", and the soldier was executed before they made it inside. GROUND RESCUES FAILED.
See, the terrorists have long memories, and it's no accident they picked the 30th anniversary of Entebbe. They know that Israel has attempted every strategy possible to respond to kidnappings...and if that didn't work, they figured launching hundreds of bombs in a 48 hour period would do the trick. This isn't all about a few kidnappings, you do realize ?
Derrida also said:
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Obviously the attacks on the logistical infrastructure should continue, just stop the bombing of civilian neighborhoods
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Again, because you don't get it. The kidnapping was one part of a larger planned provocation by Syria and Iranian backed Hezballah. You can not bomb Haifa repeatedly without expecting Israel to hit back. End of story.
I'll take you seriously when you start calling for Hezballah and Hamas to stop storing and shooting their rockets from civilian neighborhoods. Don't be a pawn. The use of Human Shields is the root of civilian casualties.
Preechr said :
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I heard a rumor a few years ago that Israel was working with the Kurds, who I guess don't share the rest of the region's animosity toward Jews, to run a pipeline from there.
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Israel has for sure worked with Kurds in many capacities (there are even Israeli Kurds in the Mossad) but do the Kurds even have control of oil they could send Israel? I don't know. A pipeline would still have to go through either Syria, or Jordan, the same way Iran's does. The Iranian line is pretty safe, and anyway, they're not hitting military targets yet. Technion Institute is right below their target range, and they're aiming away from it (probably because they want to move right into it once they wipe the Jews out, just the same way Israel moved into Syria's officer club after 1967, and used it as a food court). It's clear they want to hit civilians (and they're loading up the rockets with poisoned bb's and scrap metal to wound as many people as possible) rather then military targets.
Geggy said:
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Wasn't Hariri assassinated one year ago
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Yes, he was assassinated by Syria.
Your criticism of Israel's foriegn policy is probably last on the list of why you're an antisemite. Hunting down the one article that might say "Entebbe: an act of Israeli aggression" and deciding that's the truthfull one sure does make you suspect though.
Hizballah were not created to protect their homeland, no. They've set up a State within a State, and been ordered by the UN to leave. They have no legit right to kidnap anyone, or to launch over a thousand missiles into civilian parts of Israel.
Israel is not just rescuing their man. Not even Israel claims that. Yes they have something bigger planned. Again, Israel has made that clear. Want to know what that something bigger is? Living in peace.