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Michael

Audy Rudy they may do something, but I can't say for sure. You never know.

Lebanon is being hit pretty hard and to tell you the truth God knows what Iran will do or any other Middle Eastern Country will. The truth is that this is getting pretty bad. Israel is using a lot of its artilery and hopefully the US will not give them weapons under the table like it was done in the Arab Israeli War with Nixon.

rammie

Just to freshen things up; the current iranian president is really dumb as you probably know, and he has said several things such as "Israel shouldn't even be on the world map" (not an exact quote but something like that). So they just might get involved in this and they'll probably be backed up by the Russians if it gets ugly.

Michael

You are correct. However, I highly doubt that Russia will get that much involved. As a matter of fact I highly doubt that Iran will get involved publicly*.

I think this situation is getting worse:

CNN is saying now that Lebanon has hit a port in Israel

also

Hezbollah has launch 70+ missiles.

DocM

hello from beirut lebanon,

Hey guys, I thought you might want to know what it's like from where the shit is hitting the fan
So far there has been at least 50 civilian casualties, many of which are children, most major highways in and out of the capital beirut have been bombed at least once. Civilians are now forced to flee high risk areas by foot. Electricity and water are no longer available in most of southern areas. 3 runways at the airport have been damaged by precise air strikes and the airport is not operational for atleast the next 48 hours. Lebanon is under an air, sea and land blockade, getting in and out of the country is near impossible. Most people are now rushing to get supplies and fill their cars with gas ( the lines at the gas stations are unbelievably long). the Capital has been spared from any direct airstrikes so far but that could change any second...(otherwise it would have been just another amazing day to lie down at the beach, just to think: from heaven on earth to living hell in less than 24 hours....only in lebanon) will keep in touch

Imhotep Evil

If the Lebanese goverment and armed forces would have acted against Hizbollah
and eradicated it from Lebanon, none of this would have happened.

And no Artist, Egypt, Jordan and Irak won't attack Israel.
Iran, who knows.

DocM

[QUOTE=Imhotep Evil]If the Lebanese goverment and armed forces would have acted against Hizbollah
and eradicated it from Lebanon, none of this would have happened.

if only it was that simple....

Michael

DocM nice to see you on talking about this.

Please be safe and try to avoid getting into trouble.

I truly think this is a mistake from Israel's part, however, what is Lebanon going to do? Now Hazbollah is claiming they did not fire any rockets whatsoever. What do you think DocM?

Michael

I am seeing that at airliners.net it is being discussed.

Does Lebanon have a military? Is it true that they support Terrorists? Maybe Israel was planning this for months and just found an excusee (the kidnapping of soldiers) to do this. It is not justified whatsoever.

I was told once by a friend that if a man runs to a bus with a bomb and blows it up it is looked upon as an act of terrorism, however, these people (the palestinians) do not have a military and millions of dollars of support form a country like the US, and therefore this is the only way they can fight a war. So sad...

Osnabrueck

I think both sides of this conflict are at a strategic stalemate. Isreal can't stand by and tolerate aggression from their neighbors, but at the same time, when they retaliate like this they only make matters worse. So sure, maybe you'll get back your kidnapped soldiers, but in the process you've killed tens of Palestinians, and made alot more enemies.

Since the Palestinians have no legitamate armed resistance, there's nobody to sanction when things go wrong. It just ends up being some guy in some house being bombed, and the rest of the neighborhood suffers for having these guys living with or around them. But how could you blame them, when the guys firing the rockets into Isreal espouse a popular view?

The conflict is intractable, so I suggest the entire region be tossed into a gigantic Glad™ bag and shipped to the moon, where they can settle their dispute without involving the rest of us, who are hard at work thinking about German cars and the like.

Michael

Very true. If only glad bags were that big, and it was that easy. Obviously this situation may worsen and if for some reason it gets better and ends you are right, they will have more enemies than friends and the US will continue to look like a supporter of Israel (which is obvious).