Reply #86: Well ... I have to continue to disagree [View All]

[plasticsundance]

You state:

"Ahmadinajad has attacked Israel via Iran's proxy, Hezbollah.

You state this, but you provide no source or link that can verify it, so I think it should be dismissed as propaganda. The timeline of events are very clear in this matter, which I posted in my previous post. You go on ...

"Hezbollah has launched thousands of missiles aimed at Israeli civilians"

First off, they were rockets, not missiles. Israel is the one that has the precision guided missiles, which it used against civilian targets. The weapon that brought down the Israeli gun boat might have been a missile. I'm not sure. However, on July 12th, Hezbollah responded to Israel rejecting the idea of a prisoner exchange by firing a dozen or more rockets at the Israeli outposts in the Shebaa farms lands and the city of Shlomi. Interestingly, Forbes Magazine online first reported the Israeli prisoners were captured inside Lebanon.

You wrote:

"Forget the rhetoric". That's just what folks said in pre-Nazi Germany. As a person who lost many family members to Hitler's camps and even more to Stalin's NKVD, I'll choose to recognize that folks who say they want to kill me, and are accumulating power and weapons, and regularly using these weapons to kill others, are probably serious.

I regret and sorry that you lost family members to one of the most brutal war criminal regimes in history, but you're being unfair in taking my words out of context. I listed that Israel is bulldozing down Palestinian houses, and they also cut off water to the Palestinian people. They do not allow the Palestinian to trade on the global markets. Israel has been known to bulldoze houses with people inside them, even elderly people. They arrest and hold Palestinians ... including children ... some times without charges. Some Palestinians do not know what has happened to their family members. It's really too bad that the US MSM does not go and look at some of the conditions in Gaza. Israel also arrests elected officials. Last month, Israel violated Syrian air space by flying a fighter jet over the president of Syria's residence. This was an unprovoked violation of another sovereign nation. The Lebanon civilians indiscriminately targeted by Israel were not Hezbollah.

Israel is guilty of war crimes ... pure and simple. It has also nurtured the hate that many in the ME have towards it.

If we want to have an honest discussion, then you should at least address the specifics in my post. In addition, just because you feel justified in doing something, doesn't mean it is a wise choice.

Notice ... I haven't accused you of anything, but rather, the state of Israel. There is a difference.