Has It begun?Follow

Or just another scuffle?


I know these guys like to play punch-for-punch but this may be getting out of hand. It's a good thing we have such a large force already in the area, no?

Whatever, it always seems to me like a slap-fight.

My highschool buddy happened to be visiting Israel this week. He messaged me from the airport as he waited for his plane. Apparently he was on a hill in Haifa, taking pics of the Lebanese scenery, that got bombed two days later.

They weren't justified? Somone fired missiles at them so they are firing them back. Theres a good ammount of justification in what they are doing.

All I can say is I hope your government sticks it out and doesn't let the terrorists destroy their democracy.

Right, they butted there noses into isreal(and many other places) and many people around the world are pissed at the US because of how they act. They are responces, not initial events. Anything they get involved in is their own fault or own choice.

And by declaring war on an idea instead of a group of people/country, they force themselves to get involved wherever that act/idea shows up.

Wait until morning, after his bowl of Lucky Charms. And a slice of Peruvian Pot Pie.

Israel backed out of lands it occupied under the UN resolution that Lebanon would put a stop to Hezbollah. They never did. Hezbollah is an organization bent on the destruction of Israel and, is funded by Iran. Hezbollah also occupies up to 30% of the legislature in Lebanon. Simply harboring these terrorists and allowing them to bomb Israel is enough grounds for attack.

Sorry for the lack of updates, frequent power failures are preventing me from seeing much of the news and accessing the internet.

Right now I'm pretty incensed at the news being reported on BBC... One-sided pro-Israeli misinformation is an understatement. Other channels aren't better. Everyone is biased, one way or another. I long to see some fair news reporting...

Nobby, you know more about the news than I do at this point. Very little news reaches me at this point. And what local news I manage to get seems the same, more and more raids all over the country. I think I'll take out my BB gun, provide some additional AA fire... Sheesh!

As for the affluent neighborhood, yeah right. Not only is it impossible for most people to move for financial reasons, but moving in general is no longer possible. It would take a very stupid man to take his family out in the streets when the bombs are dropping, even if by some sort of voodoo he managed to find roads that aren't gutted. There are ******* craters in the middle of the ******* streets in residential areas!

Everyone I know in the most affected regions is living in shelters (every building has one, ironically enough).

Honestly, I think both sides are acting like children. Syria/Hezbollah knew how Israel would react, were counting on it, and still attacked an Israeli check-point, killing several soldiers and capturing two. With all that was going on in Gaza, they knew that this would prevoke a massive over-reaction, and, dispite their claims that they're fighting Israel to help their Shi'ite brothers, have callously launched attacks from civilian neighborhoods, ensuring that the Israeli response will kill innocents. Then they claim that further attacks are in vengance for these deaths. Really, all their interested is using this strife to gain more power and influence.

As for Israel, they're falling for it each and every time. While they frequently win each and every individual battle, they're loosing the war because they either don't care or don't realize what kind of damage they're doing to their own image. Every time they strike at civilian infrastructure and make life harder on the poor SOB's who aren't involved, they make an enemy. Essentially, every civilian they kill creates at least two more people willing to fight them. This cycle will probably continue in each and every generation, until they either manage to kill each other off, or a MLK or Ghandi figure rises above the endless violence and breaks the cycle. Hell, look at the massive ************ that is the balkans. That has been going for centuries!

Unfortunately, the people who get screwed the most are the ones caught in the middle. Right now, Lebanon reminds me of Poland in 1939, caught between two powers who would love to fight each other, but in this case they're just using you as a "convienient" battlefield so that they don't have to deal with the mess afterwards. Personally, you've had enough problems, and sometimes I wonder if it would be just easier if both Israel and Syria would bomb each other into the stone-age, and leave you out of it for once. You have my sympathies. (now if I could just get Shrubya to listen to me and cut off both of them until they grow up.)