The middle East , What people do not understand

You're absolutely right, HEZB ALLAH IS NOT TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. Let's not forget the past it's history repeating itself Back from 1940 on the Israeli IRGUN and LEHI organizations. they were not making candies and you don't have to take my word for it and do your own research and when U there check search : The Lavon affair. PEACE & JUSTICE FOR ALL SHalom

dreadstar(218) Good post and I can't say it any better and in the same time you have just gave the answer to president Bush's very famous question { WHY THEY HATE US ?} during the war between Israel and Hezb-Allah the whole world wanted to stop the war except president Bush our government were accususing Syria & Iran of supplying Hezb Allah with weapons and he wants them to stop,on the other hands our cargo planes were filles with all kind of weapons heading for Israel through Scotland with a lot of people protesting against the shipment of weapons through their country.this behavior of double stander policy is unacceptable from the only super power in the world if the president really means what he say to win the heart and mind of the Arabs and the Muslim world why does he support,supply and allow Israel to keep destroying Arab lands and continue the occupation of the Palestinians lands? and I'm not optimistic at all,God bless America.

Tiger, I agree with you far to often on this issue, I'm not going to stop now though. :)

It's interesting to see how Americans are very caught up in movie land where Israel is automatically the good guys and anything vaguely Arab is evil, terrorist etc etc. Unfortunately the real world does not work like that, both sides have faults and both sides have their points. Israel does have a right to defend itself. If Lebanon's army invades its borders, it has the right to use force to defend itself. If Lebanon's government was hostile to Israel and openly encourgaing terrorist, then we could argue that Israel had the right to use force. But it did not. Lebanon was trying to get onto its feet and instead of helping it, Israel has ensured that Lebanon and the Lebanese have a darn good reason to hate Israel and anyone who allies with her. As to the idea that Hizbollah forced people into the firing range cause it wanted Israel to look bad.....well, Israel, with its ultra high-tech radars and super spy system etc etc knew what was going on and was quite willing to look bad by bombing the crap out of Lebanon. - There are ways to deal with small time cladistine opperations - The Brits used the SAS in covert missions to get IRA terrorist and the Malaysian Communist in the 50s - cost the lives of a few soldiers but they won because they avoided bombing the crap out of the civilian population. The Israeli's could have used subtle comando raids against Hizbollah - might have risked a few soldiers, might have caused a diplomatic incident, but lives would have been spared. The Israeli government could also have conducted secret negotiations with the Lebanese government to help them rain in Hizbollah - but instead they chose to ensure that the Lebanese government lost credibility in the eyes of the Lebanese people by being portrayed us unable to stand up to Israel. AS for the aftermath, did Israel or even the USA offer help to the people who suffered? Hizbollah on the other hand went around helping people to rebuild their lives. - Come on, how could two supposedly demoractic countries get outfoxed in the game of winning the people's hearts? We jump and scream about how Israel is being violated when three soliders in uniform are kidnaped by people the nation is technically still at war with. But does anyone care if 10,000 Arab civilians rot in Israeli jails without due process? - If the Europeans make a peep about this being unfair, the USA and Israel will start accusing them of being "Anti-Semitic" (Arabs are incidentally Semites too) and failing to remember Auschwitz. - Well Jews with the main victims of the Holocaust in WWII but that does not give the State of Israel the right to be the perpetrators of a Holocaust in the Middle East. As for Iran, the people voted for a President who was making noises about making a reapproachment with the WEst. Did he get any support like lifting of trade sanctions, aid etc - Na-the nation still ended up as part of the Axis of Evil and lo and behold the people of Iran realised it was pretty pointless voting for people who wanted peace with the West. Come on, you got to understand that peace and security is gained by creating an environment for opportunity for as many people as possible not from robbing, starving and killing people and expecting them to take it lying down. - Of all nations, this is something Americans should understand - after all this was the nation that believed in "No Taxation without Representation."

danielb93: How did you decide that Hezb Allah is terrorist organization? and where did you get your information from? I'll be more than happy hearing from you.

Beyond the historical context, wasn't that essentially what I said?