What we need to do is get America to get Israel to stop doing this shit, and it's over.

[sylvar]

According to a radio news story I just heard, the World Health Organization is estimating that there will be 900,000 Lebanese people displaced by the end of the day due to Israel's dirty little war.

Israel is considering an invasion by massive ground forces, and refuses to stop until Hezbollah is completely disarmed.

I grew up learning about the history of the people of Israel (Am Yisrael) and the country of Israel (Eretz Yisrael), and I was led to believe that they were one and the same. But groups like Neturei Karta (Orthodox Jews United Against Zionism) seem to offer a different view -- that there should be no country of Israel until the Messiah shall establish it.

Perhaps Jews do deserve a country after the Holocaust. But I think Germany would have been a more appropriate choice than Palestine. And I think that Israel has lost any claim on the world's sympathy.

I don't have any solutions. I don't know what I want. But I think that GWB's advice to others would be a pretty good idea for the Israeli government and military: Stop doing that shit. And maybe we shouldn't have sold them all those weapons.

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[sylvar.livejournal.com]

Because I cited him, or because I suggested Israel knock that shit off?

[ximinez]

Solely because you cited him. ;)

I agree that they need to knock that shit off, but OTOH, what other option do they have when criminals keep lobbing rockets over their border and the country that they're being launched from can't or won't stop them?

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

Israel is perhaps better than any other nation at netwar. They can booby-trap phones to explode, they can kidnap and torture anyone they please, they can trace the networks of command. They have lots of options that don't involve destroying grain silos.

I worry that Israel won't stop until they get access to the Qaraoun reservoir, with a capacity of 220 million cubic meters of fresh water.

[ximinez]

Perhaps.

[loucheroo.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna guess the former ;)

Anyone quoting Dubya, even if it is something that could possibly be a reasonable statement, tends to lose some ground these days with a lot o' folk...