Israel vs Hezbollah/Lebanon

You have successfully reduced the lives of the abducted soldiers to mere statistics.

All lives are important. However as opposed to hamas and hezbolla, Israel isin't actually TARGETTING civilians. Believe it or not there are actually millions of civilians living in Israeli cities.

The IDF usually don't deliberately attack civilians (except maybe in the first Arab-Israeli war), but that doesn't mean that they care very much for so called collateral damage. The IDF is a very powerful army and batlle is very messy. The continued operations in the occupied territories will also effect the IDF when it comes to their sensibilities vis-a-vis civilians.
Now, if you compare that with the deliberate use of deadly force against civilians by Hezbollah, Hamas and Fatah, it becomes a little hypocritical to scorn he Israeli for their civilian casualties.

What I meant is that it's not their approach to deliberately target civilians with the aim to kill them. The collective punishment they use is targeted at property rather than at people, e.g. the buldozering of the houses of family members of suicide bombers. This is very different from specifically targeting civilians for the kill.
The whole situation is a catch-22 and Israel has a lot to answer for, e.g. they covertly supported Hamas against Fatah and the PLO a policy that is now coming back to haunt them.

You can't generalise like that, but there's a definite influence coming from the reference social group those in power belong to and that ensures that they're not always empathical to the needs of the common people. That doesn't necessarily mean though that they consider us as pawns or that they have evil intentions.

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To all those talking as if Israel is made of angels, ever heard of Sabra and Shatila?

Then you're missing my point.

Both sides in this conflict are terrible. That's what I am driving at. Good you mentioned Sharon.

Of course there on the wrong side, the less powerful side.

Might is right.

i love d fight lol isreal is bombin lebannon- vokal guy

Yeah, the killing of innocent civilians always brings out the 'love' in me too!

I just hope this madness doesn't spread to Northern Nigeria. We all know some of those folks don't need much of a reason.

To me They have every reason to attack Lebanon because they habour a terorist organisation and it is seen as a treat to Isreal as a Nation. Even syria and others arround them because it is the only way to defend themself as a Nation

I am not holding brief for Hezbollah. I am not holding brief for Israel. The killing of non-combatants is wrong. Israel is therefore, also culpable. Further, the fact that - by your own admission - Israel's response is disproportionate makes Israel more culpable.

1. No it is not.

2. Nigeria is a banana republic. Our 'leaders' are more concerned with looting the treasury than they are with upholding territorial integrity. Ordinary Cameroun dey chance us. If na Niger Delta or MASSOB issue everybody go dey flex muscle. Such a crying shame.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. All this started because of the kidnap of an Israeli soldier.

1. They're not being carpet bombed
2. If you think that carpet bombing is a proportionate response agains rocket atacks, you're on the verge of being psychopathic.

Of course Civilians will have to die, because Hezbollah hides in the suburbs of Southern Beirut, and Israel can only do so much to protect civilians in Lebanon. They drop leaflets first and warn the civilian population to leave the area and then come back and bomb. I say if some civilians including Children have to die, so that Israel can uproot terrorist out of Lebanon, then so be it. They should continue to Bomb until their soldiers are released and in the process send a message to these militants that have made southern Beirut and the Bekka Valley their base. Once Americans are evacuted from Beirut and Lebanon, the full might of Israel will fall on Lebanon and Gaza. I am not ruling out bombing Damascus and maybe even Tehran. Assad has been put on notice. They Buzzed his palace last week and shattered some windows. Israel should do whatever it takes to uproot terror, and "Casualties of War" is part of life.

And by the way i am glad to announce that American Made Precise heat seeking 500LB  bombs are been used to pound these locations in Beirut. At the end of this exercise, The Arab world will have learned a lesson in humility. Lebanon would have been a failed state if not for this bombing. The Irony of this conflict, is that Hezbollah will be weakened and Syria and Iran would be put on notice. Bomb on Dudes!!!!

Enough talking let us sit down and watch the bombs fall on these savages! Fox News has the best coverage if you ask me.