:eh:
Over 250 civilians have now died – 90% of them Palestine.
🙁
I feel for all the innocence people on both sides but the Gooner is completely right….
You cannot compare Hezbollah’s (rather puny) attacks with Israel’s bombardments – you cannot compare Hezbollah’s kidnapping of 2 soldiers while Israel holds thousands of Palestinian and Lebanese civillians in prison camps.
Consider the situation of the Lebanese. Thirty years or more of terrible civil wars, invasions, problems with the Syrians and the Israelis, but finally they were getting past it. There was some kind of peace, tourists were returning, the infrastructure was in reasonable shape. Hezbollah were tolerated yes, but as a pretty minor threat in reality, and as part of the fragile peace between different sections of Lebanese society. And in a week the Israelis have come in and smashed all of that, destroyed the roads, the airport. They’ve set them back ten years at least. It’s an absolute tragedy for them, even if you can look past the death toll. And all because the current Israeli government wants to prove how tough it is.
If the UK government had responded to an IRA attack in the 70s by bombing the f*** out of Belfast I would have thought that both politically misguided and morally wrong, and I think it’s fair to make that comparison