Fuck 'em revised: Let's try another. Who do you "stand with" in this

[Guaranteed]

conflict between Israel and Hezbollah/Lebanon?

[blonndee]

I don't think Hezbollah should be

conflated with Lebanon in your poll.

[Guaranteed]

2. They're on the same side of the conflict. nt

[blonndee]

4. Um, in what way, exactly?

That's not what I've been reading and watching for the last several days.

[Guaranteed]

7. Ummm...Israel is killing them both? nt

[blonndee]

8. Well, it's one thing to "stand with" the Lebanese people,

another to "stand with" Hezbollah.

[ContraBass Black]

18. No, they're in the path of the same bombs.

That doesn't make them partners.

[Guaranteed]

20. They only live together, I guess.

More like roommates?

[sabra]

1. why is Hezbollah being lumped together with Lebanon?

[Guaranteed]

3. Ask Israel.

They say it has something to do with Lebanon allowing Hezbollah to move so freely in its borders.

[melnjones]

11. yeah like Lebanon has the means to force them out...

[Tom Joad]

5. I stand for justice and peace.

It is foolish to attempt to reduce the problem to choosing a team, rather than choosing human rights, choosing justice, choosing peace. That must be the criteria.

[Guaranteed]

9. You are SUCH a better person than me.

Can you tell me which of the parties mentioned above stands for human rights, justice and peace?

And, yes, including Lebanon.

[Tom Joad]

21. Everyone on earth is entitled to justice and peace.

That's all i'm saying. Your inferiority complex is your own invention, not mine.

For those who have been paying attention, Israel has clearly been the aggressor in this conflict, and has escalated at every stage, including when it isolated Gaza and put punitive sanctions on the Palestinian people, even before the capture of the Israeli soldier. Not to mention decades of occupation, and dispossession of Palestinian homes and farms and land. All this facilitated by the bush administration and much of congress, unfortunately.

Better minds have said things like this:
http://www.pdamerica.org/articles/news/israeli-occupation.php

[Guaranteed]

22. Oh, so you stand with Hezbollah/Lebanon. Why didn't

you just say so?

[Tom Joad]

23. Reminds me of a joke.

A journalist is in Jerusalem, and he is informed of this extraordinary Rabbi, whose heart is filled with compassion, and who prays everyday for peace and reconciliation of all peoples in the Middle East at the Wailing Wall.

He goes to the Wailing Wall to meet this beloved Rabbi.

He asks the Rabbi, "What's it feel like to pray everyday here for peace and justice in the Holy Land?"

The Rabbi responds "What's it feel like? I'll tell you what it feels like. I feel like I'm talkin to a freakin' brick wall everyday, that's what it feels like!"

And so it is attempting to communicate at DU with those who insist on twisting the meaning of other people's posts. Like talkin to a brick wall.

[MoseyWalker]

6. I'm thinking you should have separated

hezbollah from the Lebanese government, because that's the way it is.

I'm thinking your poll doesn't really answer anything.

Could be just me, I don't know.

[Joe Fields]

10. Agree. Hezbollah and Lebanese govt. are not one and the same.

[Truthiness Inspector]

17. Not exactly

23 members of Lebanon's Parliament are Hezbollah members.

[Minstrel Boy]

24. what bullshit reasoning

There are 231 Republican members of the US Congress, and I can still stand with Americans against the Bush regime.

[Kire]

14. How does this poll point to a solution?

rather than a problem

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. I voted neither - but I have a question

Isn't the situation in Gaza intimately involved in this? Aren't the events in Palestine what triggered this outbreak of war? Can we separate the conflict in Gaza from the one in Lebanon? Or should we see what's happening in Lebanon as something completely separate and apart from the Palestinian issue and the fighting simultaneously taking place there?

[jrd200x]

13. It's always possible Hamas and Hezbollah are working together

but on the face of this it is two separate conflicts.

Hezb is shooting missles into Israel. Then they nabbed two soldiers.

Hamas nabbed a soldier in Gaza.

These two events are happening at different ends of the country.

But I wouldn't doubt the terrorist groups are working together.

[Endangered Specie]

15. I sympathize with Lebanon, otherwise my opinion of Hezbollah and IDF

is pretty damn low lately, hard to say which one is lower.

[TankLV]

19. Only lately? Gee, that's mighty generous of you.

Considering Hezbollah is the prime example of a TERRORIST organization.

Sorry, but I'm with Israel, Biden and Gingrich on this one.

HEZBOLLAH attacked Israel this time around, INSIDE their borders.

These idiots are MURDERERS first foremost and ONLY.

They don't get even a nod of sympathy from me.

[Solo_in_MD]

16. None of the above always wins

I would be interesting to make it binary and see what the tally was...

[LittleClarkie]

25. I stand with the innocent citizenry on both sides caught in the middle

between governments and groups who don't know how to play and work well together.

[Xenotime]

28. Agreed.. The tension was over on man...

now how many have died.

[Greyhound]

26. I stand with Mr. Jefferson...

"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none, I deem the essential principles of our government, and consequently those which ought to shape its administration." - Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural Address, 1801

:patriot:

[Behind the Aegis]

27. Israel.