In the “Cry me a river” category:
Lebanon PM demands ceasefire, appeals for aid
Following Israel’s military pressure on Lebanon, Fouad Siniora tells reporters, ‘we’ll work to extend state’s authority over all its territories, in cooperation with United Nations in south Lebanon’; adds ‘Lebanon is last to know what is happening, but first to pay price’[…] “We call (for) … work to extend the state’s authority over all its territories, in cooperation with the United Nations in south Lebanon,” A visibly emotional Siniora said.
Hey, here’s an idea. How about the next time a terrorist organization takes over your country’s southern border, you say no?
How about the next time a terrorist organization wants to run for office in your country, you say no?
How about the next time a terrorist organization has its members appointed to your country’s cabinet, you say no?
How about the next time a terrorist organization sets up shop in your capital city, you say no?
All of these things would probably go a long way towards not having Israeli aircraft bombing the crap out of your infrastructure—which also happens to be the infrastructure that supportst Hezbullah.
You want it to stop? Lebanon should have done something about it a year ago, when they had the whole world ready to rush troops in and back them up if they wanted to get rid of the terrorists. You chose the path of least resistance, and now your country is paying the price.
Amen to that! I hope that the freedom loving, peace loveing people of Lebanon will speak with one voice in loud condemnation of Hezballah and start helping with the hard work of ridding the world of these vile terrorists. Otherwise they will just have to hid in the bomb shelters while Israel does it’s best to kill the cockroaches among them, while trying their best to not kill the innocents. (dropping leaflet wanrings, etc.)
God speed to the brave men and women of the IDF!
More truer words have never been spoken.
You obviously do not know where Hezbollah emerged from.
Hezbollah emerged as a resistance movement to the 1982 Israeli invasion. The brutality of the Israeli occupation in southern lebanon created a popular resistance movement, Hezbollah. And it would take 18 years of guerrilla warfare for Israel to withdraw from the country.
You might want to read “Pity the Nation”, 600 pages worth of history on how things came to be the way they are.
And how much do you want to bet that if Israel defeats Hezbollah, and Lebanon institutes a ban on the organization, that Israel will provide major assistance in rebuilding the civilian infrastructure?
You’re making quite a lot of assumptions of what I know or don’t know, mandi. For instance, I know that Israel invaded only after years of terrorist attacks from Lebanon.
Of course, I have a simple question for you: Now that Israel no longer occupies Lebanon, what is Hezbullah’s purpose there?
Mandi, some of us actually remember what was going on in 1982, which you obviously don’t.
When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 to destroy terrorist bases there Southern Lebanon was under the occupation of the PLO, who terrorised the local Lebanese. The latter were quite happy to see the IDF kick Arafat and his goons out of the country.
Hizbollah was set up to fight Israel, and the Lebanese Christians and Sunnis too, as the puppet of Syria and Iran. If the Lebanese did not want Israel to do something about Hizbollah’s acts of war against her they should have disarmed Hizbollah and prevented it from committing acts of war on Lebanese territory. That is what UN Resolution 1559 called for. It is also a well-established principle of international law (the real law, not the made-up stuff of the Tranzis) that a sovereign state must not allow acts of war against a neighbor from its territory. If it does so it can be presumed to condone those acts, and thus be at war with the attacked neighbor. Such a neighbor suffering attacks has the right to defend herself, under the UN Charter even.
In fact, almost everything that Hizbollah and the Palestinian Arabs do towards Israel violates international law. But practically nobody except me seems to think that Arabs and Iranians should be expected to conform to civilized norms.