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The Green Bean

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Originally posted by: rudder
Originally posted by: The Green Bean
Originally posted by: rudder
Originally posted by: The Green Bean


http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/07/mideast.main/index.html

If this is not terrorism, what is?

Maybe firing inaccurate rockets into civilian areas. Of course the rockets are fired from behind civilian structures that get destroyed along with the rocket launchers.


From your link:
The Israel Defense Forces said it is checking the reports on Houla, noting that it has warned residents for the past two weeks to leave.


Has hezbollah ever given the civilians of Israel the same courtesy?


Something like "Leave you house, or you will be destryoed with your house?" Warning or threat?

You didn't answer my question. To answer your question its clearly a warning but if a terrorist organization happens to use your backyard as a rocket launch site, then I would hope the residents would have been long gone.

I am not an Israeli fan-boi, but I would not ask them to sit there an absorb 150+ rocket attacks (which a solely intended to kill civilians) a day and do nothing.

How come more Lebanese civilians have died if only Hezbollah is targetting civilians?

More Israeli soldiers have been killed that civilians. However, more Lebanese people have been killed than Hezbollah fighters.

 

linkgoron

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Originally posted by: The Green Bean
Originally posted by: linkgoron
Originally posted by: The Green Bean
Originally posted by: GoPackGo
Originally posted by: The Green Bean
Originally posted by: GoPackGo
Israel is clearly defending itself. And it's about time.

How is it defending itself by murdering civilians? Please stop making nonsese brainswashed statements.

Its a war. Civlilians die. It happens in every war.

Targetting civilians is a war crime! Its an illegal invasion and illegal agression.

A civilian is a person who is not a member of a military. Under the Fourth Geneva Convention it is a war crime to deliberately attack a non-combatant civilian or wantonly and unnecessarily destroy or take the property of a civilian.

So basically even if ONE attack kills 40 citizens (again, there were 150 attacks today) than Israel is obviously targeting civilians?

A civilian is a person who is not a member of a military. Under the Fourth Geneva Convention it is a war crime to deliberately attack a non-combatant civilian or wantonly and unnecessarily destroy or take the property of a civilian.


how many Hezbollah rockets have taken Israeli lives? They say 200+ rockets are being fired daily.

You didn't answer my question.

And the Katyusha rockets haven't killed a lot of Israelis because those rockets suck, and because Northern Israel is basically deserted + most people that are still there run to bomb shelters when the alarms start.
 

The Green Bean

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Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Israel is caught in a catch 22 situation.

If they do nothing, the intensity of trouble just grows.
Hezbollah and Hamas evaluate what actions they can get away with.
With not response, they get bolder and more severe.

If Israel responds, then their opponents realize that they crossed the line.
Even Hexbollah admitted that they did not anticipate the Israeli response.

Hezbollah controlls (ed) southern Lebanon.
Israel is determine to remove Hezbollah and/or create a buffer.
Lebanon(as a country) is complaining about the methods Israel uses.
Lebanon did not want to solve the problem initially due to the "potential" of civil war.

They thought they chose the lesser of to evils (ignorance). And it back fired.

As previosuly stated; Israle wants the safety of their people; Lebanon's people chose via their government's (in)actions to allow such a situation to fester; now they must accept the consequences.

Israle is at least warning them to get out. It is the civilian population proble and/or their government to figure out how. Let Hezbollah help them.

So it is agreed Israel is an committing an evil act as well?

And you support Nazi acts of collective punishment? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane

The Germans regarded members of resistance movements as terrorists. They found it difficult to deal with a "faceless", ununiformed enemy, which would not hesitate to attack unarmed German occupation staff (who were easier targets), striking without warning and subsequently vanishing by blending into a civilian crowd. Although less brutal in scope than what occurred on the Eastern Front, the reprisal at Oradour was part of a deliberate German policy intended to break all resistance. Despite such massacres and the death of thousands of innocent lives at the hands of the Germans, resistance movements in various parts of France continued until the end of the war.

Oradour was not the single such collective punishment reprisal action committed by German troops ? other well-documented examples include the Soviet village of Kortelisy (in what is now Ukraine), the Czechoslovakian village of Lidice (in what is now the Czech Republic), the Dutch village of Putten and the Italian villages of Sant'Anna di Stazzema and Marzabotto. Furthermore, the German troops executed hostages (random or selected in suspect groups) anywhere in France to deter Resistance fighters from attacking; resistants would hesitate to risk the lives of other individuals in addition to their own.

Hard to distinguish between the nazis and Israelis.
 

The Green Bean

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Originally posted by: linkgoron
Originally posted by: The Green Bean
Originally posted by: linkgoron
Originally posted by: The Green Bean
Originally posted by: GoPackGo
Originally posted by: The Green Bean
Originally posted by: GoPackGo
Israel is clearly defending itself. And it's about time.

How is it defending itself by murdering civilians? Please stop making nonsese brainswashed statements.

Its a war. Civlilians die. It happens in every war.

Targetting civilians is a war crime! Its an illegal invasion and illegal agression.

A civilian is a person who is not a member of a military. Under the Fourth Geneva Convention it is a war crime to deliberately attack a non-combatant civilian or wantonly and unnecessarily destroy or take the property of a civilian.

So basically even if ONE attack kills 40 citizens (again, there were 150 attacks today) than Israel is obviously targeting civilians?

A civilian is a person who is not a member of a military. Under the Fourth Geneva Convention it is a war crime to deliberately attack a non-combatant civilian or wantonly and unnecessarily destroy or take the property of a civilian.


how many Hezbollah rockets have taken Israeli lives? They say 200+ rockets are being fired daily.

You didn't answer my question.

And the Katyusha rockets haven't killed a lot of Israelis because those rockets suck, and because Northern Israel is basically deserted + most people that are still there run to bomb shelters when the alarms start.

1000 civilians have been kiled in 25 days. Thats 40 civilians a day.

/Nuff said.
 

linkgoron

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Originally posted by: The Green Bean
Originally posted by: rudder
Originally posted by: The Green Bean
Originally posted by: rudder
Originally posted by: The Green Bean


http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/07/mideast.main/index.html

If this is not terrorism, what is?

Maybe firing inaccurate rockets into civilian areas. Of course the rockets are fired from behind civilian structures that get destroyed along with the rocket launchers.


From your link:
The Israel Defense Forces said it is checking the reports on Houla, noting that it has warned residents for the past two weeks to leave.


Has hezbollah ever given the civilians of Israel the same courtesy?


Something like "Leave you house, or you will be destryoed with your house?" Warning or threat?

You didn't answer my question. To answer your question its clearly a warning but if a terrorist organization happens to use your backyard as a rocket launch site, then I would hope the residents would have been long gone.

I am not an Israeli fan-boi, but I would not ask them to sit there an absorb 150+ rocket attacks (which a solely intended to kill civilians) a day and do nothing.

More Israeli soldiers have been killed that civilians. However, more Lebanese people have been killed than Hezbollah fighters.

Because there are only Israeli soldiers in the streets?
 

linkgoron

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Originally posted by: The Green Bean
Originally posted by: linkgoron
Originally posted by: The Green Bean
Originally posted by: linkgoron
Originally posted by: The Green Bean
Originally posted by: GoPackGo
Originally posted by: The Green Bean
Originally posted by: GoPackGo
Israel is clearly defending itself. And it's about time.

How is it defending itself by murdering civilians? Please stop making nonsese brainswashed statements.

Its a war. Civlilians die. It happens in every war.

Targetting civilians is a war crime! Its an illegal invasion and illegal agression.

A civilian is a person who is not a member of a military. Under the Fourth Geneva Convention it is a war crime to deliberately attack a non-combatant civilian or wantonly and unnecessarily destroy or take the property of a civilian.

So basically even if ONE attack kills 40 citizens (again, there were 150 attacks today) than Israel is obviously targeting civilians?

A civilian is a person who is not a member of a military. Under the Fourth Geneva Convention it is a war crime to deliberately attack a non-combatant civilian or wantonly and unnecessarily destroy or take the property of a civilian.


how many Hezbollah rockets have taken Israeli lives? They say 200+ rockets are being fired daily.

You didn't answer my question.

And the Katyusha rockets haven't killed a lot of Israelis because those rockets suck, and because Northern Israel is basically deserted + most people that are still there run to bomb shelters when the alarms start.

1000 civilians have been kiled in 25 days. Thats 40 civilians a day.

/Nuff said.

There were also more than 2000+ missles fired... that's less than 1 civilian per missle.
What's your point?

 

Severian

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Hard to distinguish between the nazis and Israelis.

Actually, it's quite easy to distinguish. The Nazis bombed, invaded, and then occupied whole countries in order to extend German dominance over Europe. Israel didn't attack Hezbollah until two of its soldiers were kidnapped from Israeli territory, then spirited across the border, likely to Syria or Iran.

It's radical Islamofascism, which Pakistan positively bathes in, which is nearly identical to Nazi fascism. Take a closer look at your own country's behavior, and answer for your own country's crimes against the entire world, i.e., black market nuclear proliferation, before you castigate the Israelis for responding to Muslim aggression.
 

Aisengard

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I love how people like BrownTown can complain about 'flooding the board' with Israeli deaths, but says nothing about the flooding of Lebanese deaths.

Do we honestly need a new post for every single attack that is made? I mean yes, of course these latest civillian deaths are tragic, but I just think this whole topic already has 50 other threads that people can post in.

Remember kids, Lebanese lives are more important than Israeli ones.
 

ayabe

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"Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Monday that one person was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the southern village of Houla, not 40 as he had earlier reported"
 

kage69

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It's radical Islamofascism, which Pakistan positively bathes in, which is nearly identical to Nazi fascism.

I think you're getting your movements a little mixed up. The Ba'ath movement is the one which drew heavily on the Nazi rise to power in the 30s and 40s. The Ba'athist movement is secular, i.e. not a political drive guided by religion - but it certainly has fascism covered! Nazis actually started creating their own religion, whereas the various militant Islamic flavors popular in places like Pakistan use a simplified version of an already established religion as an excuse to do what they do.
There are no Ba'athists in Pakistan to my knowledge, they have always been located in Iraq and Syria, with sympathic support in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon.
 

Trente

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Originally posted by: ayabe
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"Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Monday that one person was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the southern village of Houla, not 40 as he had earlier reported"

But the damage to Israel had already been done. :|
 

Aisengard

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Originally posted by: Trente
Originally posted by: ayabe
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"Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Monday that one person was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the southern village of Houla, not 40 as he had earlier reported"

But the damage to Israel had already been done. :|

What the frick?

Okay, I don't think we can trust this guy ever again. I'd wait a number of days before believing anything out of this guy's mouth.
 

LegendKiller

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Originally posted by: Aisengard
Originally posted by: Trente
Originally posted by: ayabe
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"Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Monday that one person was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the southern village of Houla, not 40 as he had earlier reported"

But the damage to Israel had already been done. :|

What the frick?

Okay, I don't think we can trust this guy ever again. I'd wait a number of days before believing anything out of this guy's mouth.


I heard somewhere that he's related to Baghdad Bob!
 

Harvey

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Originally posted by: The Green Bean
If this is not hate killing, what is?
Sorry to start the answer to your question with a question, but which group started the current hostilities?

In case you forgot, under the peace agreement between Lebanon and Israel, Lebanon was required to disarm Hezbollah and keep them out of southern Lebanon. Lebanon conveniently forgot about that, and Hezbollah conveniently ignored it and continued to launch rocket attacks on Israel.

As inconvenient as the truth may be to your beliefs, Israel's initial demand was for the return of their citizens, and Hezbollah's response was to launch more rockets and spew more hatred in their declarations.
If this is not disproportional force, what is?
When you're dealing with a pack of mad dogs, the only "disproportional" force is not using enough to kill the dogs. The cost of overkill is nothing compared to "underkilling" the enemy whose sole announced intent and purpose is to kill you.

As a side note, as much as I disagree with Bush's war on Iraq, it would have been over long ago had he followed the advice of those like Gen. Eric Shinsecki who told him he would need at least 300,000 troops to do the job.

In a life and death struggle, underkill is NOT a viable option. From a public relations standpoint, I think Israel's biggest mistake was not putting more troops on the ground in Lebanon, sooner, and going after Hezbollah, directly.
If this is not targetting civilians, what is?
Oh gosh, oh golly. Another inconvenient truth. What do you call the Israelis who have been the targets of Hezbollah's contiuous Katyusha rocket attacks since the day Israel withdrew from Lebanon under the agreement signed by both governments.
The only solution to the middle east crisis is to disarm Israel.
Sure. As long as you're willing to do the same to Hezbollah, and nations like Iran who still rant in favor of destroying Israel. Until then, it's not going to happen.

And before you attack me as pro-Israel, I'm not. I'm just reminding you that your post is a one sided rant that conveniently ignores the reality of the entire picture.

Personally, I think the world will be much better off when it figures out that religion is a piss poor excuse for anything, especially attacking those who don't happen to agree with whatever your choice of faiths happens to be.
 

Trente

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Originally posted by: Aisengard
Originally posted by: Trente
Originally posted by: ayabe
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"Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Monday that one person was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the southern village of Houla, not 40 as he had earlier reported"

But the damage to Israel had already been done. :|

What the frick?

Okay, I don't think we can trust this guy ever again. I'd wait a number of days before believing anything out of this guy's mouth.

He cried in front of his Arab friends today Link; Instead of taking care of Hezbollah which is like a cancer inside Lebanon, he ignored it. Hezbollah attacked Israel from Lebanese territory; Lebanon is now facing the consequences of it's inactions. What a cry baby.
 

TheSlamma

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Originally posted by: Doboji
What do you think realistically would happen if you disarmed Israel? Really?

It's funny how none of these anti-Israeli folk can seem to answer this question.

 

marvdmartian

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Originally posted by: The Green Bean
How come more Lebanese civilians have died if only Hezbollah is targetting civilians?

More Israeli soldiers have been killed that civilians. However, more Lebanese people have been killed than Hezbollah fighters.

Do you know that for a fact? Are you aware that the Hezbollah fighters are dressing in civilian attire to more easily fade into the general populace? That same civilian populace that is taking the brunt of punishment, because the Hezbollah fighters aren't willing to stand up and fight, but instead take the cowardly way of hiding behind the skirts of the very civilians they might claim they're fighting for?

Israel is shooting at rocket launchers that are being hidden in civilian areas, close to civilain domiciles. The rocket launchers are highly mobile, and easily moved to other civilian areas. Hezbollah knows that by hiding the rocket launchers in such areas, they're more likely to gain the support of the bleeding hearts like yourself, who are horrified by the civilian casualties. However, since the Hezbollah fighters are dressed just like civilians, doesn't it make sense that some of those "innocent" civilians might in fact be the very Hezbollah fighters that have been firing rockets?? Might that not be part of the reason why it seems there's been low Hezbollah casualties, and high civilian casualties??? :confused:

Now let's look at the Hezbollah fighters. They indiscriminately fire their rockets at Israeli cities, targeting SOLELY the civilian populace. I have yet to hear of them firing any rockets at Israeli military positions. Why? Because they realize, I suppose, that if they conduct their terroristic rocket attacks on strictly civilian Israeli positions, they're more likely to cause the Israeli populace to turn against supporting the fighting, and force an early withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon. Oh yeah, and towns & cities don't move, so their horribly guided missiles are more likely to hit the civilian populace than a more mobile military position.

While I applaud you for your concern over the civilian populace of Lebanon, I think you're living in a dream world, by thinking that disarming the Israelis is going to bring peace to the middle east. Instead, it would simply bring the 2nd holocaust of the Jews in less than one century. Of course, if you think for even one second that the Israelis would allow themselves to be disarmed, you're living in more of a dream world than I imagine anyone here would have guessed! :roll:

 

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Originally posted by: TheSlamma
Originally posted by: Doboji
What do you think realistically would happen if you disarmed Israel? Really?

It's funny how none of these anti-Israeli folk can seem to answer this question.

There is no answer because that is the dumbest suggestion ever. It's better if Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and any other countries in the region arm themselves more aggressively with the best that China and Russia have to offer. If those countries can come within a stone's throw of military equality with Israel, it will be a much greater deterrent from future conflicts.
 

Trente

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Originally posted by: TheSlamma
Originally posted by: Doboji
What do you think realistically would happen if you disarmed Israel? Really?

It's funny how none of these anti-Israeli folk can seem to answer this question.

It's obvious that many of the Anti-Israel crowd are passionately seeking it's complete and total annihilation; They will never be happy with any Israeli concessions apart of it's destruction.
 

Buck Armstrong

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Originally posted by: The Green Bean
Lies, lies, and more lies.

1 killed instead of 40. More Hezbollah lies, just like the doctored photos...how do I know the other photos that guy took, like the infamous dead baby shots, were also not staged? And how am I supposed to believe that all those other dead civilians (Qana) were also not lies?

Your nose is growing, Pinnochio. You need to change the thread title now that the lies are public.
 

Trente

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Originally posted by: linkgoron
Can you please change the title and the subtitle?

I wound't count on him doing so very quickly. He'd rather have it unedited as long as possible , such is the dirtiest trick of Arab propagandists: publish false reports first, apologize (way) later, if at all.