He got it all wrong, actually it is Israel not Iran which supports Hizballah so that they could attack Lebanon! What an real nut job

... this from the American Left are now commonplace and expected. They are consumed by conspiracy theories and non-existent feints, forever destined to make stupid noise and accomplish nothing. Insanity grips the nation.

This guy must be slightly confused as to which side of the war he is watching because only the arabs have such apathy for their own people.

Definitely, keep it. It's not worth anything to the rest of us.

Isn't this the same group of morons that accused the US of attacking itself on 9/11?

Olmert is in charge -the same idiot who wants to withdraw from the west bank and refuses to wipe out hizbulla in favor of some UN deal with the french

Oh my god ! how funny this can it gets! We have one old arabic saying. It is something like .. "If you can not reach the grapes you say it is sour !" look who is talking about morality! where was your morality when you killed 10s of children in Qana and thousands of civilians? where was your morality when you attacked the hospitals and farms !! The world is watching you !! do you think people are blind ? You are pathetic. Go get some hizbollah fighters if you can ,at least that would be more moral than killing civilians. Cowards!

And then the alarm clock went off, smashed me on my head, and woke me up. The man's a dreamer.

Why are we surprised... Israel is capable of a lot worse

Amazing how journalists can express an opinion like this, without assuming any responsibility whatsoever for whether it is true or not, and get away with it. Sadly this is the American way, rights without responsibility.

This is absolutely outragious, if it were true it would cause severe reactions in the public. But given Ricks blatened and semi fanatic anti-war rhetoric, I will not believe his "analasys"... How awful of him to even think like this, let alone sell his fantasy as truth...

These comments show why the idiot is the top reporter for the Washington Post, all the news that's fit to wrap fish in.

Any history buff will tell you that this sort of stuff happens in every war. It's important to have the people engaged and believing their govt. is doing the right thing.... it's all part of the game of war. Due to easy access to information from reporters on the scene and 24 hour news channels, the finer details of wars/conflicts are more transparent.

We in the USA rerally do support you Israel and know lies when we hear them. Hizbullashit got that name for a reason.

Hey !! Soon he will say, that Israel actually staged the killing of 8 soldiers, and the kidnapping of the other 2, so they can start this war.

You elected a cazy maniac who's willfully ready to sacrifice every single Israeli civilian for cute strategies and operational tactics, bravo.

these guy kill for a new story ridiculous

..and one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter!

I knew there was a reason why we always called it the Washington Compost! Just look at the kind of crap that comes out of it.

First of all: Journalism is long dead. Esp. American journalism. It's just another business, like any other business that only exists because suckers exist. Sucker-based businesses probably comprise 60% or more of the US economy. Secondly: As an old-style leftist, I'm absolutely disgusted with the New Left - all style, no subtance. And a dusgusting style at that. What used to be a movement for equitable distribution of economic output and political power and social progress has become a weird subculture of neurotics, gays, over-educated idiots, bored and sate European pseudo-intellectuals and their Yank followers, typically empty-headed poseurs like Mr. Ricks. It's got its own "intellectual" fashion waves, such as intellectual sadomasochism in the form of Arab fetishism and Antisemitism in the form of Anti-Zionism. The worst offence one can commit against these new leftists is to bore them. Holocaust is no longer relevant to them and BORING. Hence, Jews are boring. The Arabs are exciting -they blow themselves up and riot on the streets.

I would not trust him with covering a kindergaten party.

"We have one old arabic saying. It is something like .. "If you can not reach the grapes you say it is sour !"" "sour grapes" didnt originate with the arabs you moron

The other day the Washington Post had a whole section on being enviromentaly smart by finding uses other than reading for their trashy paper.Turns out the best uses for their paper involve pet poop and trash related uses...(it was their suggestion) The only war this idiot served in must have been the war to find a publisher to publish his drivel. Although the paper's Editorials have been quiet pro Israel,Their reporting staff,Molly Moore who is embeded(hehe)with the terrorist scum Zubeida in Jennin,Scott Willson has his head up his behind,Anthony shadid acts like he is a Shaheed wannabe,and the rest of their news comes from Highly regardrd(up untill 2 days ago) Reuters and AP (THE CHAMPIONS OF MANUFACTURED NEWS AND PICTURES). The last positive thing this paper has done was Watergate(...ummmm some 30 yrs ago) Since then....a couple of pulizers pulled back after revelations of invented stories etc. Washington Compost alright!!!!!

Israel is not intending to kill civilians. To anger the good people in Lebanon is not to Israels benefit. It makes no sense. Why would Israel want to kill and anger its neighbors? What purpose does it serve? It just draws them into a nightmare existence they don't want. To adopt the strategy the Hizbollah uses to their advantage, the death of innocents, does sound politically clever. However, NO Israeli on earth would accept this policy. Most of the arab condemners always shout about how Israelis believe 1 israeli is worth all their blood. This notion contridicts what the nutty reporter claims, because in essence it is true. Israelis love their countrymen and country so much, they will go to the ends of the earth to protect just one from injustice and terror. They will never abandon or abuse each other like the hizbollah abuse the lebanese. Sure, the hiz bring supplies to the poor civilians in the middle of this. They want them to stay and die. Israeli boys are dying just to protect Lebanese civilians. Israel could easily flatten Lebanon without regard to life. Israel does not. It is sending small bands in to fight on hiz turf, your local neighborhood school or clinic. The hiz do not wear uniforms. Israeli soldiers already have to wait until fired upon to shoot. Are they supposed to ask for ID cards, too?