kanelli wrote:MaaaD wrote:mraph can you not start this game of "you started it". I am not going back to history of 3000 years of who started it but lets just talk about recent history.
Hamas had a ceasefire with Israel, until the latter bombed that innocent family on a picnic on the beach in Gaza and then Hamas ended the ceasefire which eventually led to the capture of the soldier in Gaza and which brought over the insane reaction of the Israeli army in Gaza. That prompted Hizbollah to go ahead and capture two soldiers in the north and here we are today.
So do not buy in to the Israeli media ploy of oh we are the victims and got attacked first. It is a chain of events and not isolated events.
If Hizbollah did not kidnap and attack the soldiers, Israel would not have bombed - correct? Yes, Israel is being heavy handed, but Hizbollah are the ones that stuck their nose in. If you play with fire you will get burned.
kanelli,
I think your arguments are beyond biased. It seems that you also have selective memory.
Kidnapping of soldiers is NOT an act of war, it is simply that, kidnapping. Hezbollah are asking for prisoner exchanges - these being prisoners that have been held without trials, without legal representation, without rights by Israel for many years. In the past Israel has indeed done prisoner exchanges, Hezbollah was counting on this fact. Imprisoning people without charges and without trials, IS still illegal. But you only seem to harp on the illegality of the actions of Hezbollah and that cross border kidnapping. What about the illegality Israel's numerous air and land violations on its neighbor's borders? In that case, whenever Israel breaks sovereignty rules by invading the air space of another country - with their FIGHTER JETS - such actions should be taken as an "act of war", right? I mean, it's only logical if we're to go by the "logic" that Israel the US and it's propagandists are using...
Your selective memory also seems to forget this recent incident of Israeli military kidnapping Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Notice how the media uses the word "capture" instead of "kidnapping". The media using kid gloves with Israel, how astonishing!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5112846.stm
And speaking of kidnappings, what about the US overseas kidnappings of suspected terrorists? The CIA broke every international rule imaginable against men that were captured in Europe and the Middle East. And most of these kidnapped people were simply victims of mistaken identity. Can you imagine any one of the countries where these men were kidnapped from declaring US renditions as "acts of war"?
I think it's quite clear that Israel and the US can get away with illegal warfare while spewing an abundance of shallow rhetoric to justify their criminal actions.