Both sides are wrong

[MrScorpio]

Too bad the US has abdicated its position as an honest broker.

This crap will end only when both sides peter out.

[bryant69]

1. I don't think either side is going to peter out

short of genocide.

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[Minnesota Libra]

2. EXACTLY!!!! Or until BOTH SIDES are made to set down and...............

.....work out an ONGOING peaceful agreement. The part that just galls me to no end is in the past - EVEN DURING THE CLINTON YEARS - the US sent delegations to Israel and the Middle East as a whole to keep the peace. Now idiot boy sets back on his ass doing absolutely nothing except embarrassing me - as an American - in front of the whole world.

:rant:

[Igel]

3. One wonders what the agreement with Hezbollah would

look like. The Israeli side is fairly unambiguous.

The Hezbollah claims were also unambiguous in 2000, and complied with. But two things happened. After complete compliance with territorial claims, a wrench was thrown in the works as suddenly all the maps from the '50s and the '60s put out by the Lebanese and Syrians were declared wrong, and a narrow strip of land marked as Syrian on the maps, and which Syria acknowledged in 1974 was Syrian, turned out to have been gifted, with no evidence supporting it, to Lebanon in 1951 (with some evidence from before WWII that Lebanon had previously been in control). And to this day Syria refuses to actually legitimate the claim.

After all the Lebanese prisoners were released, apart from a handful that had committed truly horrible murders and to whose continued incarceration Hezbollah apparently acquiesced to, Hezbollah decided to absolve those prisoners of all sin. Now the poor prisoners have not only never done anything wrong, but every missing person in south Lebanon is allegedly in Israeli jails.

[genie_weenie]

4. Just a thought, Do you think

UN and US attempts at limiting the fighting has allowed this conflict to continue at low levels year in and year out?

The problem is even if we allow a terrible war (with hundreds of raped and murdered civilians) in 25-40 years the next generation will seek to re-open the conflict...