Originally Posted by closecover
You mean the same Lebanese civilians who elected Hezbollah to parliament, who on its own volition invaded soverign Israeli (not sure of spelling) territory, who on its own volition kidnapped an Isreali citizien and who on its own volition fired rockets delibertely targeted at innocent Israeli civilians and killed socres of them?
You mean tghe same citizens of the occupied territories who overwhelmingly voted Hamas into power whose sole aim is to destroy the state of Israel and who is resopnsible for countless deaths of innocent Israeli civilians through "martydom operations"?
Right, ill bite.
How many lebanese who have been arrested by Israel on Lebanese soil are in Israeli prisons?
How long did the Palestines go without Hamas in their government without any improvement in their living conditions?
What caused the war in July was it a terrorist act against civilians or the abduction of two SOLDIERS, want to look at the death tolls with civilians on both sides?
When did Hamas start to indiscriminatly toss rudimentary rockets into Israel and how many did they toss.
How many clusterbombs did Israel drop in the final 24 houres before the cease fire took effect?
Who violated the cease fire?
Its quite sickening that I even have to ask these questions, its sickening that people seem to think its OK for a country to commit acts of horror because hey Terrorists do the same thing.
Have we become so desensitised and emotionally bankrupt that we feel the killing of thousands of civilians is justified because terrorists killed a few hundred.
How can we be any better then terrorists if we too see the slaughter of innocents as colateral damage.
Thats Bin ladin's line for crying out loud, the ....er planely said his beef is not with the American people but with its government and he sees the deads of innocent civilians as collateral damage.
Is it not wrong that the majority of people in democratic countries seem to feel exactly the same way Bin Ladin does?
Should we not prove that we are better then a bunch of terrorists by trying to minimise the unnecesary deaths of innocent people?