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Posted by: Randall 2 years, 1 month agoIsraeli warplanes [pictured] have fired on the Beirut airport, and now the airport is closed. Right now Reuters is saying aircraft attacked two runways at the Beirut international aiport, as part of an assault against Lebanon. The actual terminal and planes haven't been hit.
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ahriman01
July 13, 2006, 12:33 a.m.And so it begins...
The question is, how many Muslim nations will this pull in to the conflict and how will we get involved?
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EasternWisdom3
July 13, 2006, 1:08 a.m.Absolutely right ahriman01. The second question, which in fact will condition the answer to your first one:
How would the "civilised" world react to the massive killing of innocent civilians by the Israeli army both in Lebanon and Gaza?
Would we hear a statement like "Israel has the right of self defense"? A statement which is perfectly stupid when it is said to justify killing innocent civilians. It is in fact THE invitation for the others to do the same!
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adinas
July 13, 2006, 1:25 a.m.A country which is attacked and does nothing invites more attacks. Lebanon can't let attacks be made from its territory and expect its population to just keep on living peacefully. If Lebanese want to live in peace they have to stop terrorists from attacking their neighbors
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EasternWisdom3
July 13, 2006, 1:45 a.m.Who is attacked precisely?
May I remind you with the simple fact your media never stress upon:
Israel illegally occupies arab territories. Arabs do not occupy Isreali territories. The fact that the Israeli ocuupation is illegal has been materialized by dozens of UN resolutions.
In addition of an unlimited number of condemnations by human right organizations of Israel acts in occupied territories ...
Again who is attacked?
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Phalanx
July 13, 2006, 2:09 a.m.Israel is not purposefully targeting civilians... Israel is targeting enemy militants and like with any war innocent civilians are killed. The only groups I know of that purposefully attack civilians are terrorists. Even though I agree with the Israeli policy and believe that is the only thing terrorists understand, I do believe that the chaos that has begun has serious potential to begin World War III. One must undoubtedly weigh the cost verse reward, are three soldier's lives worth World War III? On the same token, when is enough enough?
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fordlux
July 13, 2006, 2:12 a.m.no one says what happens to Israel citizens then one suicide bomber accomplishes his task, target of which innocent civilians,
no one says how many people were killed by such bombers
how many tragedies such one brings to families?
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Icontech
July 13, 2006, 2:32 a.m.It's absolutely rubbish!!!! It's like allowing a thief in America to rob your home, your private domain and the police(US Government) pretend, ignore the robbery and look the other way. And this robbery was done in brought daylight with American Weapons.
Isarel is surely following the footsteps of America(An American wannabe) that ******es the hell out off every neighbouring country ....wanting to muscle their way around. If not for America, where would Isarel be? but at the same time, where would america be without Isarel. Who is really the puppert and who is the pupperteer. The world is the puppert including 99% of Isarel's jews being played.
It's heartless power hungry elite Jews of the world and their selfishness using the general public Jews and exploiting them and everyone in their path.
It's so sad, the jews are being played by their own kind.
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cordele
July 13, 2006, 2:39 a.m.Normally I for Isreal, but I say if they want to bomb Lebanon, then bomb the military, not cilivians, the difference between terrorist and freedom fighters or terrorist and soilders are that terrorist target cilivians and soilders and freedom fighters target governments.
I'm not call Isreal a terrorist state, but this is not acceptable, the U.S., should stay out, unless they bring peace.
But let us pray for Peace in the Middle East, and may God bless the U.S. and Isreal
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Icontech
July 13, 2006, 2:50 a.m.World unrest and wars allows for more arms sales. Who is the biggest supporter(S) you go figure? Who stands to win and who stands to lose. Lebanon or Isarel. Ask me and I Say both Isarelis and neighbouring countries are on the losing stick. Is it the shooter or the gun manufacturer that is the real problem.
Middle east happen to be the chesset(battlegroun) being played on and their don't even know it. It just seems geographically middle east is ripe for exploitation.
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Delgelu
July 13, 2006, 2:53 a.m.This war will last 100 years.
It started in 6th decade of the XX century.
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fordlux
July 13, 2006, 3:02 a.m.its not rubbish
Israel located among enemy countries of all its sides, everyone of them and they together dream
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dubhodhar
July 13, 2006, 3:17 a.m.Until both sides stop hitting each other back, there will never be peace anywhere in the Middle East. Neither side likes the other but until they figure out how to peacefully co-exist despite differences in religion, and politics - innocent people, both Muslim and Jew, and yes Christian will continue to be forced to flee their homes and even killed. It saddens me to think that they probably never will be able to peacefully co-exists and thus the fight will never end.
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dubhodhar
July 13, 2006, 3:17 a.m.Until both sides stop hitting each other back, there will never be peace anywhere in the Middle East. Neither side likes the other but until they figure out how to peacefully co-exist despite differences in religion, and politics - innocent people, both Muslim and Jew, and yes Christian will continue to be forced to flee their homes and even killed. It saddens me to think that they probably never will be able to peacefully co-exists and thus the fight will never end.
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dubhodhar
July 13, 2006, 3:18 a.m.Until both sides stop hitting each other back, there will never be peace anywhere in the Middle East. Neither side likes the other but until they figure out how to peacefully co-exist despite differences in religion, and politics - innocent people, both Muslim and Jew, and yes Christian will continue to be forced to flee their homes and even killed. It saddens me to think that they probably never will be able to peacefully co-exists and thus the fight will never end.
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BenJB07
July 13, 2006, 4:12 a.m.Israel has offered land in exhange for peace in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1985, 2000, and 2005. Every singe time the Arabs said "no giving in to the evil state." So Israel is occupying lands that the arabs refused to take posession of. Israel follows strict rules of engagement, the terrorists do not. Israel does not intentionally kill innocent civilians, many times terrorists kill their own families and blame Israeli soldiers. As a student who just spent three months in Israel, I have seen innocent Israelis killed with my own eyes, I have seen the Israeli soldiers that occupy Gaza and they treat every civilian just like an Israeli. Hizbalah terrorists went and kidnapped and killed Israeli soldiers on Israeli soil during a cease fire and some of you dare to call Israel the bad guys for retaliating? Before any of you jump the gun and blame Israel you should go there and look an Israeli soldier in the eye and see for yourself that they are among the most moral soldiers in the world.
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Godless Infidel
July 13, 2006, 4:16 a.m.And yet once again a message board thread with terrorist sympathizers and a supposed person of “Eastern Wisdom†spinning one side of the coin.
Here is the paradox EW3: Israel and the West buy and/or manufacture precisian guided weapons and make great efforts to minimize civilian casualties. The Islamic fundamentalists make bombs to inflict the greatest number of civilian casualties. What exactly can Israel and the US do to eliminate civilian deaths to your satisfaction? Get it?
I highly suspect that the nonexistence of Israel would be to your liking. Where is your outrage to all the terrorist attacks in Iraq? Are they not innocent civilians?
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BenTremblay
July 13, 2006, 5:24 a.m.I just blogged this at http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Current/P7/blog/blogger.html ... I'm trying to confirm the number of civilian deaths in Beirut. Word is that Israel has mobilised reserve troops.
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asalf
July 13, 2006, 5:29 a.m.You don't have a clue what's going on in the middle east!!! You don't have a clue who are the Arabs are!!!
Even though they look like humans, they are just animals!!!
advanced animal!!!
They can think, they dress and so on, but the behavior of 99% of them is totally animaly.
This is accordingly to almost day-to-day life with them!
They do things, not just not accordingly to their not existing "religion", but opposite of it!!!
Their leaders do all the terror for money, in disguise of religion!!!
They settle in our country, and just beacause of the "bleeding heart" euopeans, we can't bring back our lands!!!
I wish the all Arabs were dead!!! And that all the ornery and cruel creatures which lead them were in hell forever!!!
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BenTremblay
July 13, 2006, 5:35 a.m.How does "Ask me and I Say both Isarelis and neighbouring countries are on the losing stick. Is it the shooter or the gun manufacturer that is the real problem." sound like wannabe-Nazi? Maybe there are too many hot-heads and not enough warm hearts ... closed minds but not open eyes.
Syria and Iran are hardly innocent in this.
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Sandokan
July 13, 2006, 5:54 a.m.It is interesting, once again to note in these message boards that the participants - either start their discourse from a particular time frame regarding history or only have a minute amount of knowledge on the subject matter. In this case, in order to view the ongoing conflict between Israel and her neighbors one needs to go back to the Russian Pograms, Ottoman Empire, Dritte Reich, British and French Trusteeships. Too much data to extract and display in here. Suffice it to say, Israel is legitimate in its attempt to defend her borders - when you win a war... everyone remembers the 3 Day War? - to the victor go the spoils, sadly the Muslims involved in initiating this particular round have failed to see that, as well as remember the treaties that their predecessors signed. In this particular episode, Israel left Gaza - fact not fiction, promises were not kept, so they have returned. Like in certain religious communities, where bible zealots just .. (to be continued)
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Sandokan
July 13, 2006, 6:01 a.m.quote bits and pieces out of the Holy Book, to justify a narrow viewpoint ... so too do these Muslim leaders and terrorists. When these statements and supposed "facts" land on the masses - is it any wonder that a "prolotariat" came to power...shades of the 3rd Reich! - then the "lemmings" take up the call to arms. But as any intelligent, logically thinking human being can see ... there is absolutely no need for the violence. Amusing, is that regardless of the hatred being spread, Jews and the Palestinians are from the same blood lines! Hitler would have executed both sides. Oh, there is only one race .... Human. Different shades ...but Human.
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Rabbi
July 13, 2006, 6:07 a.m.Whilst I support Israel's right to exist being a Jew myself, I cannot support its continued arrogance of ignorance whereby all its target practice which it calls self defence and any retaliation an act of terror, prepares us for another cry of "Jews to the Ovens" of the 1940's and its echoes in 1982 on the streets of Rome led by Enrico Berlinguer (himself a Jew) of the Italian Trades Union Movement.
No one has prepared the ground for that level of intolenrance to rise again than that state of Israel that my ancestors fought to create to avoid another Holoucast.
Each civilian killed puts Israel into the category of uncivilsed and terrorist like thsoe it condemns for the same reasons it alleges.
Menachem was a butcher or as the Jewish Chencellor of Austria once called him a pig headed green grocer with a gun. (Bruno Kreisky.
In trying to draw Iran into the conflict before it tests a nuclear device under the pretext of destroying the Hezbollah Israel will finally succumb.
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