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Ok I got to page two and decided not to read any further. So....forgive me if I repeat something someone else has said later in the thread.
What the hell is all this crap about what Israel being flattened? Have you seen what they've done to The Lebanon? Israel is probably the only country in that region who ISNT going to be flattened. Quite apart from anything else, Israel is a nuclear nation, yep that'right they gots the bomb. They are the regional superpower. Why are they the regional superpower? Because they have the absolute and total support of their 'allies' the USA.
Why is Bush in any way responsible for what's going on over there? Well, giving Israel permission to flatten the fuck out of Southern Lebanon and vetoing calls for an immediate ceasefire spring to mind. The neo-con American govt. has its part to play in this, as does my own cowardly govt.
When the arabs launch an attack (of any kind) our governments condemn them in the strongest possible terms. When Israel launches an attack we are silent. When they respond to arab attacks disproportionately and destroy whole towns, a country's infrastructure and kill civilians indiscriminately, we don't condemn, we 'urge restraint'.
We are happy in the West to name Hezbollah as guilty of warcrimes when they hide their people and weapons amongst civilians. We are much less keen to name Israel guilty of warcrimes when they engage in collective punishment (as they did with the Palestinians just prior to Hezbollah's entry into the fray)
This is why my government and the American government are partly responsible for the current crisis. We have dealt with the region so unevenly, that we no longer have any voice with the Arab side, meanwhile we waste what voice we have with Israel by being complicit in the scale of their response.
I love by the way, that Israel calls its army a 'Defense Force'. That's so cute. The way they defend their country by tramping through someone elses. I remember seeing a great picture of an israeli soldier defending his country by holding a gun to palestinian child's head, in palestine:P
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