Might be time to bring back an effective weapon against tunnels and caves.
Posted on 07/21/2006 11:33:02 AM PDT by Republicain
VIENNA -- The war on Lebanon is grinding into a murderous routine without hope for an imminent ceasefire. As the terror entered its second week on Thursday, Israeli military attacks against Lebanon and Hizbullah rocket strikes against Israel drew to a close with the war's highest loss of civilian lives in a single day yet - fifty-five Lebanese victims slain by Israeli assaults and two children in Nazareth slaughtered by Hizbullah - and ended with 23 tons of bombs dropped on an alleged Hizbullah bunker in the suburbs of Beirut.
But such death and madness on the eighth day of confrontation is threatening to become part of a long statistics in a war that warriors on both sides appear to have hungered after and pursue with objectives and strategies that far exceed the objectives and rationales that they present to the world.
In diametrical opposition to Israel's statements to the contrary, it is for example inconceivable to the overwhelming majority of Lebanese that the Israeli attacks were initiated with a first-hand aim of destroying Hizbullah supply lines and escape routes for smuggling their two captured Israeli soldiers to Iran.
In reality, Beirut's Rafiq Hariri Airport was targeted on the first day of the assault, sending an unmistakable signal that Israel, once again, would penalize Lebanon and its citizens in wholesale manner for not reining in Hizbullah.
The same applied for other attacks early in the Israeli aggression: the destruction of the Jiyeh electricity station and of Lebanon's only full-sized international highway in the hills behind the village of Sofar.
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Why shouldnt they?
They say that like it's a BAD thing.
"But such death and madness on the eighth day of confrontation is threatening to become part of a long statistics in a war that warriors on both sides appear to have hungered after and pursue with objectives and strategies that far exceed the objectives and rationales that they present to the world."
That needs a Barf Alert. Defending your country against Terror is never "madness".
NOBODY wants war less than the warriors that have to fight it, because they're the ones that end up paying the price.
Terrorists like Hezbollah? They don't care.
If Hezbollah wants to meet Allah, then it's the IDF's job to arrange the meeting. Warm up the virgins, folks.
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Boy, Thomas Schellen really "gets it," doesn't he?
What a bonehead.
Typical anti-Israeli drivel: The Jews fight back and all the A-rabs scream that they're victims. Poor babies.
The targeting of Lebanon's roads, bridges, airports, etc. was what had to be done to isolate Hezbollah terrorists and prevent Syria and Iran from resupplying them with military hardware, ammunition, troops and other supplies. To try and claim that Israel did this simply to "punish the Lebanese people" is a big lie being perpetuated by the world's most experienced liars, namely, the islamists and the msm who support them.
Might be time to bring back an effective weapon against tunnels and caves.
Schellen ain't gellin'.
What we may be witnessing here is the end of a long love affair with the Jewish nation and Jews as a people deserving autonomy.
As they were largely abandoned by the majority of nations during Hitler's long campaign of eradication and displacement they now seem to be in like jeopardy from the risk involved in supporting them.
Whose love affair? Europe didn't lift a finger to protect them when they didn't fight back. Europe won't lift a finger to protect them when they do fight back.
In fact just as most European countries were complicit in the round-up of jews during the Holocaust, most European countries have sided with the arabs in the present and are complicit in the continuing attacks on Israel.
Europe doesn't have much to be proud of where either Jews or Israel are concerned.
Israel is a litmus test and most countries fail.
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