Reply #222: Two populations aren't at war [View All]

[Ignoramus]

2 organizations are at war. A population doesn't engage in war, unless every single member of the population is shooting bombing etc.

The Isreali government could bind itself to it's own law saying it will not attack. Hezbollah could bind itself to it's own policy saying it will not attack. The population of lebanon and the population of israel (every single person in the two countries) don't all meet together to agree on things.

The cycle of violence will not be ended by violence. Every killed person results in 100 new enemies. Israel will not be able to kill every enemy, it can only increase the number of enemies. The only way to end the cycle is to stop retaliating. There is no easy path. Every course of action will result in death. It's just a quesition of how much more death do you want. Keep retaliating to have more death, or stop retaliating to have less death.