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Blair: Situation in Lebanon a catastrophe
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Published: 24.07.06, 17:23
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61. Israel/Lebanon conflict
Norman ,   San Diego, CA USA   (07.24.06)
I support Israel 100% in this. They should continue this for as long as it takes to rid the area of the disease that is Hezbollah. Israel has attempted to make peace with these animals before. Israel makes concessions, pulls out of settlements, displaces it's own people all in good faith and in return they get abductions and rockets. Terrorists DO NOT want peace, never have, never will, they want to kill "infidels", that's all they want. At some point we all have to realize this and make a concerted effort to rid the world of this disease and the sooner we get down to business the better. The longer we wait, the more weapons the terrorists will amass. This war will have to be fought, no way around it, my thoughts are better now than later when they have nukes.
62. Why we will lose
Jeff ,   Harrisburg, PA   (07.24.06)
Israel and the West will lose this war to Islam for one reason and one reason only: they believe in their cause and the West/Israel does not. Decades of self-hatred has rotted out the core of Western civilization and now we are truly vulnerable to outside attacks. In about 20 - 30 years, we (in the West) will either be dead or praying five times a day.
63. Here's a plan..
Kevin ,   baltimore usa   (07.25.06)
Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip and Southern Lebanon. Yet these terror groups insist on killing. Let's face it; Israel will never withdraw from the WestBank. That would leave a country only 7 miles wide at its narrowest point surrounded by people that want them exterminated. Israel has done their part. The solution is for Hamas and Hizbullah to stop killing and kidnapping Israelis. Simple.. One more thing, Tell Iran and Syria to mind their own damn business.
64. Do what you need to do, Israel
Pro Israel Guy ,   Milwaukee, WI   (07.25.06)
Pound them into dust if that is what it will take. Hezbollah is a terrorist organization and should be decimated. None of the countries criticizing Israel would stand to have their territory so threatened. We in the USA stand with you.
65. why we will lose
joe nunz ,   saginaw-usa   (07.25.06)
I hate to admit it, but I think you're right. We need to take a Churchillian approach to these terrorists and just bomb and wipe the he.. out of them.
66. CNN supports Hezbollah and other terrorists
joe nunz ,   saginaw-usa   (07.25.06)
You are right on the money my friend! I can't stand watching CNN. They would be on the Germans and Japs side in WWII.
67. What can Blair do
Tommy ,   belfast uk   (07.25.06)
For goodness sake--Look at the state he has got the UK into with the new capitol of islam-- Londonistan.. The man and his hirelings do not even understand the problem--just ignore him----He is still sucking up to the people who would destroy the UK
68. LEBANESE RADIO STATIONS CELEBRATED WAR AGAINST ISRAEL
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (07.25.06)
How I spent my summer vacation Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST July 17, 2006 "... All day Thursday Lebanese radio stations played military marches. Announcers made repeated statements invoking Allah, Lebanon, mujahadin and jihad. Clearly, they were thrilled that the long anticipated war had begun..." Israel has sustained hundreds of wounded civilians from the terrorist attacks from Lebanon. Ambassador Dan Gillerman stated before the UN Security Council: "...Many of the long-range missiles that have hit Israeli towns - including Nahariya, Zefat, Rosh Pina and the port city of Haifa - were launched from private homes with families residing inside, where a special room was designated as a launching pad, with the family playing host to the missile..."
69. Israel/Lebanon
Jeff ,   Schuylkill Haven, PA   (07.25.06)
Not one drop of American blood is worth spilling for either country. Lebanon harbors terrorists while Israel spies on the USA at will. Some friends! Like the Mafia let them eliminate each other!
70. AN OBVIOUS SOLUTION
MLS ,   DALLAS USA   (07.25.06)
THE OBVIOUS SOLUTION TO THE MIDDLE EAST PROBLEM IS TO STOP THE BARBARIC AGGRESSION AGAINST ISRAEL. STOP THE SUICIDE BOMBERS AND STOP THE ROCKETS DIRECTED TOWARD A NATION, ISRAEL, WHICH HAS EXERTED ITSELF BEYOND ANY OTHER TO MAINTAIN PEACE WITH ITS NEIGHBORS. ONCE THIS BARBARIC ANTI-SEMITIC HOSTILITY HAS CEASED THERE IS NO MORE CONFLICT -- SIMPLE.
71. Re # 16 - Agree
Joe ,   USA   (07.25.06)
We're only a generous nation if we give them our own land, not someone else's. What we did is actually called stealing.
72. Europeans
das ,   Los Angeles, USA   (07.25.06)
I agree whole heartedly. Israel has looked the other way too many times. The Europeans want Israel to give land to these people who publicky acknowledge their mission of killing all Jews and others. Not all Muslims feel the same way Hamas, Hezbollah and other groups do. It's time to rid the world of these hate groups to allow the innocent people of Islam to show their true religion of peace. The EU needs to come together, unfortunately Chiraq is a poor leader and all EU can do is ask for diplomacy. These people want to kill, want to wipe Israel off the map... how do you negotiate with them? Now is the time to join Israel to destroy the infrastucture that has allowed terrorist groups to build strenghth in Lebanon. I know the EU is mentally weak, so it is important that the USA take the lead on this one as well as everything else.
73. Beware the shoulder fired antiaircraft missiles.
Fred B. ,   Los Angeles CA   (07.25.06)
#72 said, "Now is the time to join Israel to destroy the infrastucture that has allowed terrorist groups to build strenghth in Lebanon. " If Israel cannot wipe out the Hezbollah, and it increasingly seems that this is the case, then Israel may have to be satisfied with pounding into dust all the infrastructure which supports Hezbollah. That's gonna be really expensive to fix ...and what do they gain for it? Nothing but a few 'attaboys' from their puppetmasters in Iran. Let's face it, their weapons are not militarily significant., but be thankful that they have not got their hands on any shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles. That could be coming one of these days. Remember, the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan used them to great effect on Russian helicopters. A few Israeli choppers shot down in Lebanon and the crews captured would get the entire Arab street in delrious celebration.
74. The Lebanese made their choice
carlos ,   new york, usa   (07.25.06)
When they embraced Hezbollah and let them have their weapons and missiles. When they ignored UN's resolution to disarm a criminal, terrorist organization that hides weapons in mosques and amid civilians. The Lebanese government made their choice. Now they must deal with the IDF. They brought catastrophe to their own country by their choices. No democratic country would live with an armed terrorist organization sworn to its destruction right across the border. The Lebanese may cry now, that Israel is defending itself from Nasrallha and his tugs. Lebanon is just paying the price for appeasing terrorists.
75. Israel guilty of war crimes
jim ,   Chicago, IL USA   (07.25.06)
Justice will only be done when UN war crimes and reparation trials are commenced against Israel.
76. Israel
Tonto ,   Atlanta, USA   (07.25.06)
The primary difference between the terroists and Israel is this - if the terrorists were to totally disarm and cease their attacks, there would peace in that part of the World. In contrast, if the Israelis disarmed, they would be driven into oblivian and wiped off the face of the Earth.
77. Pre Marconi Consciousness
Allen Graves ,   Long Beach, CA USA   (07.25.06)
This has been one of the more horrific political periods in recent history. I really hate seeing fanatical Christians, fanatical Muslims, and fanatical Jews, killing all of these innocent children, and others. Religions' benefits have long been superseded by their liabilities. And, even all of this useless, evil, wanton killing isn't putting a dent in the population explosion. Without coming to grips with the population epidemic, global warming cures, peaceful life, health care for all, education, and everything else becomes an impossible pipe dream.
78. #19 Ed phosphorous
Colleen ,   USA   (07.25.06)
Ed CNN has lied over and over using faked footage too. Never forget that the aim of News is to sell advertising. Newspapers and mags and TV are loaded with Ads..why? Because you cant run media without it. How do you get people to watch, read, or listen? You have to supply sensational stories . When there is nothing sensational, they make it up. CNN will have headlines about 3 headed alien babies soon too. When a media outlet is consistently biased in their reporting, its best to take their "proofs" with a grain of salt.
79. Message that Hezolleh sends
Joe ,   USA   (07.25.06)
Hizbolleh leader Hussein Maslawi about France, Israel and US 20 years ago: "We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you."
80. History
Mike ,   Monaco   (07.25.06)
You need to go back a bit further - 1948 - to understand what's going on now. Who's giving what back to who?
81. #75
Don ,   Phoeniz, AZ USA   (07.25.06)
What would Israel have to fear from the UN? The same Saddam, Hezbollah or anybody had/has to fear from them? The UN is a pathetic joke They are the ones who should be tried for gross negligence, if not complete and total incompetence.
82. More Live are Saved
Steven ,   Minneapolis, MN   (07.25.06)
You can't fault Israel for winning a war it didn't start. In the end, more lives will be saved if Israel is not prevented from finishing the job. This war waged by radical Islam will not go away unless the people are overwhelmingly taught that they cannot prevail. One suggestion for the Lebanese who would like the fighting to end. Do not aid Hezbollah fighters and disclose their positions to the Israelis. It will end more quickly. If you do not do this you are complicit and deserve the damage that is inflicted upon you.
83. ignorance
Simon of Trent ,   Melbourne Australia   (07.26.06)
MLS: Arabs are also semites and actually most Jews are of Eastern European/Mongol lineage so the that would make the Israeli imposter semites the true anti-semites. The shelling of an innocent family on the Gaza beach was the cause of this, also if you did your research you will find that the 2 Israeli troops werent kidnapped they were arrested on Lebanese soil. Israel still occupies Lebanese territory, Hezbollah are freedom fighters who mostly target military while it's the Israeli's who repeatedly target and destroy civillians and their infastructure the most shocking fact is Israel was created on terrorism, suppose none of you Zionist loving sheep know about Stern gang, the terrorism against the British, the attack on U.S.S Liberty, Lavon Affair, King David Hotel Bombing and who knows what other terrorist acts Oh and two thousand years of ritually murdering children. The world is waking up to the anti-human Juden race, through your own arrogance and sadism you Jews will inflict a holocaust upon yourselves, a real one this time and when the world sits back indifferent to it don't come whining to the West as we are sick of your lies and narcissism.
84. Friends of USA???
Jeff ,   USA   (07.27.06)
The USA does not have any friends in this region of the world....including Israel. Friends don't spy on friends (ie: Jonathan Pollard). Not one drop of US blood shall spill for either country.
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