Surprise, surprise, I agree with Ms. Rice. What has been the policy since at least 1948 and actually since 1919 has been battle, ceasefire, battle, ceasefire, repeat forever. Nothing is going to get better in the long run until those whose stated aim is to kill all the Jews and wipe Israel off the map are once and for all dealt with. How do you negotiate with people like that? Yes, Israel is killing some civilians, but they are not targeting civilians as Hezbollah is. And how can you tell is a dead adult male (or female for that matter) is a civilian or a militant? You can't in the case of Hezbollah, because they don't wear uniforms like the Israeli Army, nor does the Israeli Army use residential neighborhoods as launching pads for rockets or hospitals and religious sites to store weapons.
If the UN had actually done something towards their own resolution 1559 that reads in part "the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias" the area would not be in its current state of crisis.
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Date: 2006-07-29 04:13 am (UTC)If the UN had actually done something towards their own resolution 1559 that reads in part "the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias" the area would not be in its current state of crisis.