Reply #21: This is not fair or logical [View All]

[funnymanpants]

Israel does not have a right to destroy an entire country just to get vengence for the death of 3 soldiers and the kidnapping of 2 more. (The others were killed when a tank entered Lebonon proper.)

The UN and Human Rights Watch have already termed Israel's response war crimes. Israel has targeted Civilian infrastracture and civlians themselves. A confidant to Olmert has stated that it is okay to flatten villages in S. Lebanon because it told everyone to leave. Such destruction is collective punishment and is a war crime.

And as the *Washington Post* reported, the goal of Israel is to inflict damage on the entire population of Lebanon to get the population to turn agains Hezbollah. This is also collective punishment, a war crime.

As far at the "bastards" go, I think one could say the same about the IDF's treatment of the Palestinians. The IDF regularly kidnaps Palestinians, and in fact you could argue Israel strated this round of kidnapping when it kidnapped a doctor and his brother on June 24, a day before Hamas kidnapped an Israeli soldier. Every human rights group that has looked at Israel's behaviour has condemned it for "deliberate killing" and "torture."

Using your logic, it would be just to bomb the hell out of Israel to get rid of the bastards once and for all.

Or using your logic, it would be just to bomb the hell of a state like North Carolina because the citizens support the military actions of Bush.

The bombing of Israel has simply strenthened Hezbollah, which can only be defeated politically.

I happen to believe in internation law and human rights, which means you can't start killing civilians to achieve your goal. That goes for Hezbollah, and it goes for Israel as well.