Young Christian Lebanese chanting Hezbollah...in protest @ UN building

[xultar]

OMFG.

Israel did what Hezbollah couldn't. They turned the moderate Beirut rich kids..even Christians into terrorists.

OMFG.

Christian Hezbollah.

OMFG!

Live on CNN Just now.

[Selatius]

1. Israel miscalculated when they "pressured" Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah

They overdid it and simply stoked support for Hezbollah...at the price of several hundred civilian dead.

Whoever thought it was a good idea to destroy civilian infrastructure needs to be put into prison along with people like Nasrallah.

[still_one]

2. OMFG, Hezbollah fired missles into Israel where civillians were located

and Isreal bombed the area were the missles were shot from

How dare they try to protect their population

AHHHHHHHHHH

SCREAM, JUMP UP AND DOWN

Now protesters are attacking UN building!!!!,

Wait a minute, the UN isn't Israel or the US, why are they doing it to them, an organization that is trying to help them!!!

This is a WAR ZONE, I would assume you would have not had the U.S. go into Afganistan when the Taliban refused to give us bin laden?

but come on, lets defend hezbollah, lets destroy Israel, after all they were responsible for 9/11, along with PNAC, and the Jews

1000 protesters out of a country of four million

[Connie_Corleone]

6. How you got all of that crap from the OP's post is beyond me.

[still_one]

11. I was demonstrating the use of hyperbole from the OP

"OMFG.

Israel did what Hezbollah couldn't. They turned the moderate Beirut rich kids..even Christians into terrorists.

OMFG.

Christian Hezbollah.

OMFG!"

[Lars39]

7. Collective punishment is a war crime.

[still_one]

12. So then you must believe that we should NOT have gone into

Afganistan after 9/11?

Incidently, I do NOT condone collective punishment, and what Israel did when taking out the power plant in the West Bank was a perfect example of collective punishment, which was wrong

10 rockets had been fired from Quana, and I do NOT believe they knew that civillians were there

[Lars39]

14. What I believe about Afganistan is immaterial to the fact that Israel

killed about 40 kids.

[still_one]

15. not all, we did the same thing in Afganistan

killing thousands of civillians. The question is, how do you fight a war when civillians are present. Any war?

and I will concede the fact that this should never had occurred. In other words, Israel should NOT have invaded Lebanon in the first place, but tried to solve the problem first through the UN, but unfortunately, the clock cannot be reversed. In addition, once Israel did invade, a cease fire should have been pushed immediately. Again, that did NOT happen.

[MrTriumph]

18. NO we did NOT do the same thing

x

[still_one]

19. really, how many times was the red cross building hit in Afganistan?

http://www.cbc.ca/story/news/?/news/2001/10/16/strike_tues011016

http://wackyiraqi.com/features/redcross_yahoo.htm

[still_one]

20. Here is some more examples

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2001/10/17/19842.php

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2001/10/30/afghan3125.htm

http://www.peacenowar.net/Oct%2024%2001--Miss.htm

[MrTriumph]

22. For the amount of ordinance & duration, it is clear US & Israel differ

in targeting policy.

Thanks for pointing out US mistakes in Afghanistan. Sorry it makes you feel good about Israel.

[DistressedAmerican]

8. It is not a war zone. It is a war crime.

War crimes are not self-defense.

If you support this Israeli action, you support a war crime.

[Minstrel Boy]

9. nice escalation yourself:

"lets destroy Israel, after all they were responsible for 9/11"

Surely it's possible to love a country without embracing its government's atrocities?

[still_one]

13. that was the point, I was using hyperbole like the OP did

[magellan]

10. WHERE IS ANYONE DEFENDING HEZBOLLAH?!

Ignore the shocking turn of Lebanese Christians towards Hezbollah if you will. Ignore too the deaths of 21 children and counting, some of whom may have been disabled and hiding with their mothers in that building. Try to blame their deaths on Hezbollah instead of dealing with the fact that your noble Israel is engaged in wanton bloodshed in its maniacal hunt for terrorists and doesn't give a shit about civilians until the headlines embarrass them. The Lebanese aren't ignoring it, I assure you, and funny enough they are NOT blaming Hezbollah for the US-made bombs Israel is killing their children with. That's reality, no matter how you spin it. Suck it up. I just hope you can find your heart one day, the thing that allows you to mourn senseless death instead of defending it, simply because no matter who does it, killing defenseless children is WRONG.

[malaise]

17. Well said n/t

[Lucy - Claire]

3. You see Christians outside the US are not sheep....

In fact most Christians outside of the US are sickened but what Israel has done, so these protests are not a surpise.

[countryjake]

4. Lebanese Arabs, Christians, and Jews...some in their evening attire...

from the "other side" of Beirut, where the night life is still popular and hasn't been affected by Israeli bombing...all united and outraged at the horror that was perpetrated in the village of Qana throughout the night. He said they were pouring into the street that had been empty only a little while before. Spontaneous outrage!

[JCMach1]

5. You forgot Bush is a uniter

his policy is working well...

[laura888]

16. Hezbellah is the only force fighting the Israelis

Somehow the Lebanese understand that Israel does not value their lives and thus they need a defender.

I would react the same way.

[ForrestGump]

21. Yes...atrocity aside, on a pragmatic level:

way to go about creating a whole new and more broad-based terrorist base, dudes.

Just as the US did when it invaded Iraq this time around.

And, just like the American powerbrokers, I can guarantee that the Israelis knew they'd be creating more terrorists, if not full-scale escalation by states in the region. Like the US, Israel needs the terrorists to be there...I'm not talking about the Israeli people (just as individual Americans wouldn't want to provoke terrorist recruitment and activity), but the people who run the state.