Whoever it was that posted and said that it was never Israel's intention to destroy Hezbollah must have been hit by a bomb himself. Go back and read the statements your leaders made. That was the whole goal of this war that they made; they saw an opportunity to try and completely get rid of Hezbollah. They won't be able to achieve this against a guerrilla army, and will have to retreat with their tails between their legs. They should have known better at the start. And to the person who advocated nuclear bombs, you should be the first to go, you idiot.

You kidnap, you threaten, you stand in front of the UN and make war and chirac/UN expects them to STOP? How2 get peace? HOW CAN YOU EXPECT PEACE FROM AN ENEMY who REFUSES TO ABIDE BY ANY KNOWN RULES! When will the world ADMIT it's the JEWS STUPID! when the world stops hating them, people like chirac and the UN will see kidnapping and intimidation are not exceptable means of behavior.

The Israeli's have shown a lot of restraint...let'em loose! These Hizzbo cowards hide behind women and children! They store wepons in schools and hospitals! Tell the good Lebanese people that because Hizzbo was allowed to plot their aggression from their soil that Israel is going to flatten the entire area!

THEY HAVE LONG BUT SELECTIVE MEMORIES. MAYBE WE SHOULD START NAMING OUR MISSLES ERETZ YISRAEL AND ESPANA. THEY MAY HAVE KICKED US OUT OF KHAIBAR BUT WHO WANTS TO LIVE THERE WITH THOSE TOWELHEADS ANYWAY. Khaibar Fortified town of Arabia in the district of Hejaz, and four days' journey northwest of the city of Medina. In the time of Mohammed, the name "Khaibar" was borne by a whole province, which was inhabited by various Jewish tribes; the name became famous in consequence of the prominence of the town in the Islamic wars. According to Mohammedan historians, the first inhabitants of the district of Hejaz were the Amalekites, who had been expelled by the Israelites. There are various traditions in regard to the settlement of Khaibar by the Jews: that they settled there in the time of Moses; of Joshua; of Saul (who was sent by Samuel to exterminate the Amalekites); of David, when he fled before his son Absalom. But the most probable supposition is that of Rapoport (in "Bikkure ha-'Ittim," 1824, p. 53), that the Jews of Khaibar are the descendants of Jonadab b. Rechab, on whose recommendation they continued to live like nomads. They settled in that fertile place after the destruction of the First Temple, and, having no intercourse with Jews in other parts, they were entirely ignorant of the existence of the Talmud. As theRechabites were of one family with the Kenites (I Chron. ii. 55), Rapoport identifies the name "Khaibar" () with "Heber" (), the name of the chief of the Kenites. The Jews in the province of Khaibar in the time of Mohammed had seven fortresses or castles, similar to those of the Christian knights (the Arabian geographers, among them Yaḳut, derive the name from a Hebrew word meaning "fortress"), the strongest of which was Ḳamuṣ, built by the chief Ibn Ḥuḳaiḳ; these fortresses protected the Jews against the predatory incursions of the Bedouins. In regard to the history of Khaibar prior to Mohammed, the historians report only the single fact that Al-Ḥarith al-A'raj, King of Ghassan, made an incursion into it in 524. One hundred years later, during Mohammed's war in Hejaz, a Jewish tribe, the Banu Naḍir, deserted the prophet's camp and sought refuge in the town of Khaibar. This warlike tribe exhorted its coreligionists there to resist Mohammed in the event of his besieging them. Mohammed invaded the district in 628, and the Jews retreated to their fortresses, where they bravely defended themselves. Their leaders were Kinanah ibn Rabi', a Naḍirite, and Marḥab, of Himyarite origin. The greatest resistance was offered by the fortress of Ḳamuṣ, which, in spite of the overwhelming numbers of Mohammed's forces, held out two months. Finally, the Jews capitulated, but they were allowed to remain on paying a certain tribute. Omar, the second calif, violated the treaty of Mohammed and drove the Jews from Khaibar about 640, assigning them a strip of land near Al-Kufah, on the Euphrates. Benjamin of Tudela reports 50,000 Jews in the city of Khaibar, among whom were many learned scholars; but Ibn Sappir (book i., ch. xv.) corrects his mistake. It is hardly probable that Jews ever returned to the place. The expression "Yahud al-Khaibar" has remained as a term of reproach. Travelers of the eighteenth century, as Niebuhr and Seetzen, reported merely hearing of Jewish nomads in Khaibar.

apart from ending slavery, stopping the holocaust, preventing Iraq from have a nuclear bomb, etc. etc. etc. Come to think of it most really intractable, widespread, life threatening horrors created by man were ended by violence. What has appeasement ever solved?

The ole' mind motor must have thrown a rod there, Sam. You really believe Israel is colored red?

One thing people forget is that in the last middle east war that the area designated for land for Palestinians was given by Israel like the United Nations. Egypt, Sryia, etc. the land they invaded to "drive out the jews" they kept that land for themselves, effectively keeping both the jews and Palestinians out and no Palestinian representation in those areas they conquered. Therefore, look at everyone's greed before you get so mad at the Jews who have only an island of free ideas in an ocean of theocracy.

I'm pretty sure #111 is a terrorist sleeper cell agent and his real name is definitely not jeff. GOD will bless those that bless Israel and curse those that curse Israel! END OF STORY. Wake up Islam. Jesus Christ is the truth. He is the God that loves you!!! Believe before it is to late!

one of the most ignorent responses i have ever heard... u urself r a terrorist by supporting hezbollah. anyone who does not want peace is one of them

This war is nothing more than a smoke screen for Islamic Tyrants. Iran had a problem and once again they try to take the attention off their own tyranical actions and attaced Israel. They don't even have the balls to do it themselves they have to hide behind the skirts of a front group to make it look like they have no involvement. They are obviously afraid of what is coming as well they should be. It will end for them soon enough.

and drop a MOAB on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut. Israel, you *will* have to take the gloves off sooner or later.

blah blah blah.. Nasrallah will be yet another failed so called Arab hero, once the IDF finish him off. believe me, they will do it and he knows it. In fact you know it too, if you're totally honest with yourself. Nabil, since you obviously are happy about what Hizbollah are doing, then you cant have too many comlpaints when the IAF take out your entire country,,

Dont let the news fool you. Israel has the ability to flatten Lebanon if they choose. They are not using the big guns yet, okay, so stop getting all excited about what Al Jazeera is reporting. The truth is, enemies of the Jews get crushed, and their friends and allies prosper. Jehovah is God. He proved it to Pharaoh, He will prove it to this new Pharaoh Nasrallah as well. False prophet. Dont you guys get it???...this is all written in prophecy. Wait and see. Ezekiel 36.

Unless justice is done for the illegal actions; but that’s anti Semitic.

I have one question for your you brainless dirt bag: didn't they bomb your subways enough? Apparently not...

I said to Israeli's Islam will win as our prophet Mohammed told us , so no way for you just leave our land .

This is your hero? A yellow-bellied coward that hides shivering & shaking in the Iranian embassy while his brainwashed followers continue to kill civilians? What, no caves in Lebanon to crawl into?

Pretty brave words to describe barbarians who hide behind women, children, and the UN (literally)...

GO ISRAEL GO, WE ARE ALL WATCHING YOUR BACK

show your barbaric true face Zionists,reading your garbage and how you pound and kill civilians in Lebanon is a testimony of your real ,deep savage nature.

What a moron. You will be in Israel in two weeks???????? - this just shows the incredible fantasy world you dumb butts live in. And your statement that the Israeli Army left booby trapped toys for kids is another example. If this had happened, the entire World would have known this. It is not Israeli's that kill kids - it is you loosers. Not only Israeli kids via homicide bombers - you kill your OWN kids, using them as homicide bombers. Take a LONG HARD look at yourself.

You dumb butt, what on earth are you talking about???? Your points (??points??) make absolutely no sense at all. You must be a student!! Placate Syria and Iran? Are you nuts (yes!!). When has placating EVER worked. One example, PLEASE, just one where it has worked.

Drop a couple of those bad boys and watch hezzbollah, hamas, and al-qaeda scatter like the cockroaches they are. Japan was defiant and unwilling to surrender too...I can think of two things that changed their mind. These terrorist groups should reconsider who they are dealing with.

Isreal needs to once and for all end the threat to its nation by chasing and demolishing Hezbollah and Hamas WHEREVER it may lead them. Into Syria/Iran? So be it....the west needs to face the facts that Isreal is the canary in the cage. What happens to Isreal happens to the rest of the world at the hands of Isalmofascism. Isreal needs our undivided support in this matter.

A year ago Lebanon seemed like a light at the end of a dark tunnel in the Middle East, with a popluation that had finally had enough of Syria's sh*t. Not that that made them Israel's friends, mind you, but it did make them less of an enemy. Take out Hezbollhah? I'm all for it. Bombing all of Lebanon into the Stone Age for a kidnapped soldier? Uh, that just strikes me as dumb - the work of soft-handed politicians trying to look tough (we in the USA know all about them, trust me)... it's just sad and dumb and the people of Israel and Lebanon once again get the short end of the stick.

God told Abraham concerning his people ISRAEL: "I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you." You see....salvation is through the Jew first, then the gentile, so get with it or perish in the flames. you may be laughing, but HE isnt. Vengeance is HIS....not yours. How is it the earth will be blessed through the Jews, you ask? Because Messiah is Jewish...and messiah takes away the sins of the world....for those who believe in HIM!!!

How stupid can you get. The reason that the Israeli Airforce is bombing the civilian infrastructure is that the Hexbollah COWARDS hide there behind women and children!

Israel is a ROUGE terrorist state?? A RED terrorist state?? God save us from idiots who cannot even spell. Go home to the West Bank, dummy!

Hamas and Hezbollah started this. Israel gave up the land anwere at peace. Hamas attacked Israel and killed and kidnapped soldiers without provocation. Several days later Hezbollah attacked Israel and did the same, kidnapping several soldiers. Hezbollah also routinely firest rockets into Israel form the same land that Israel vacated. What the hell do you expect Israel to do, use harsh language. Those that attack Israel without provocation are vermin needing extermination. Israel is simply performing pest eradication, just as I have by spraying for ants. Lebanon is responsible for the actions of the vermin within their borders.

TO AL THE CIVILIZED,LOGIC, AND UNDERSTANDABLE PPL . . WATS HEZBOLAH !!! DO U KNOW ? EVRY ONE WAS/IS PROUD OF THE FRENCH RESISTANCE AGINST THE GERMAN SO WHY WE SHOULDNT B PROUD OF HEZBOLAH . . ISRAEL IS TALKING PART OF OUR LAND AND KIDNAPING MANY LEBANESE .. WHO IS THE TERORIST . . WHO IS DEFENDING.