Originally Posted by
MissChief
ORAC, this thread seems devoted to fierce criticism of Israel, with much qualitative comment and bias from folk like Bob Viking, Sallyann1234, artee, Lonewolf50, and dead-pan to name a few. Your thread either needs moderating or terminating, as so many of the comments belong in Jet Blast. We all understand that many people do not like Israel and its retaliatory actions. But it is so tedious to keep reading their little snipes. They bring nothing to any informed debate.
Sometimes, what it looks like is what it is; who knew.
Israel has had numerous opportunities to work towards something resembling a peaceful resolution to their intractable differences of 2 different groups occupying the same bit of turf, and when there is a glimmer of hope, there is action taken to cancel that avenue. Accommodation or annihilation are the ends of the spectrum, and the latter looks pretty bad on a resumé. Hamas has not made it any easier, but empowering the support of Hamas through the inequities of the settlement plans that Benny brought to the bank in bulk is a self fulfilling act of stupidity. Looks good at the poll booth though.
Lebanon is unfortunate in its choice of geography, they would do better with some continental drift to be apart from their neighbours while they sort out their issues. Hezbollah still has more military capability in Lebanon than the Lebanese government, makes for a few problems with what passes for state policy. Shame, once it was a nice place, but then, once Jews and Arabs lived in some harmony until acted upon by great powers from without.