[Ouderkirk]

Even if we accept that the Hizbullah incursion was illegal, how do we regard the systematic destruction of Lebanon? Under international law such action counts as a war crime. Who could imagine that the stated objective, to rescue two soldiers, justifies the death and destruction caused by Israel's bombing? Is a Lebanese life is worth less than an Israeli life?

the question should be "is a muslim life worth less that an Israeli life.

YES!

[pissant]

Gee, a supposed scholarly article by a distinguised diplomat that once again, fails to mention that the Hama and Hezbollah charters call for the destruction of Israel.

What an ignorant POS.

[denydenydeny]

The Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, hailed by political leaders and the media as a courageous act, destroyed what remained of the Oslo accords

There was also this teensy-weensy little five year campaign of suicide bombings and hundreds of Israeli dead from it, that may have had something to do with it. Just saying.

[thoughtomator]

The title of the article makes sense, in light of the article's contents, only if you consider Israel and other stridently pro-Western survival forces to be the "extremists".

[hosepipe]

[ The Arab World's Silence Has Left The Last Word To Those We Call Extremists ]

Actually it proves being a muslim makes you a "time bomb"...
The proper Immam or Mullah can light the fuse..

On the otherhand some muslims are duds.. A Mosque is an ammo dump..

The ammo are muslims(that can acquire explosives) not explosives themselves...

Quite simple when you look at the Qu'ran and hadiths(source of the Qu'ran)..
Muslims are "time bombs"...

[dervish]

Who read this garbage? The answer lies in the comments printed with the article.

[KellyAdmirer]

Even if we accept that the Hizbullah incursion was illegal, how do we regard the systematic destruction of Lebanon? Under international law such action counts as a war crime.

I am so tired of this kind of legalism. The terrorists hide behind legalisms, just like they hide behind women and children. If the terrorists are firing rockets from Lebanon, THAT IS THE WAR CRIME, IDIOT.

[Mike Darancette]

Catholics used to call the most extreme among them Saints.

[WOSG]

"On May 26, Israel had a leader of the Islamic Jihad assassinated. Lebanese militants are still held in Israeli prisons."

... Er, terrorist criminal killers of women and children in terrorist attacks - 'militants' my foot.