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Originally Posted by Ibram
Now wait just one cotton-pickin' second here... I'm not trying to use that as a 'last line of defense' or as moral equivalance or anything like that.
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That comment wasn't directed particularly at you.
But it certainly seems to me that the outcome of "both sides need to do ${X}" pronouncements is that Israel, being a nation, gets enormous international pressure to do ${X} and its enemies continue to do pretty much exactly what they please, because there is just about zero accountability for them...they're all operating as militias or terrorist cells or surrogates or factions or quasi-political-parties.
Hezbollah is a perfect example of this. When somebody knocks at their door for accountability, nobody's home, because they're not a nation. But turn around and everybody's telling you how "legitimate" they are because they have elected members in Lebanon's parliament. But when Israel respond to their military attacks, suddenly it's cast as an "unprovoked attack on Lebanon". It's just part of the same old shell game; high-stakes three-card monty.