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Lebanon is indeed stuck in the middle. I knew a lebanese young man in the summer of 2001, this was before 9/11. We would talk about middle east politics and world politics and he would swear up and down that the Lebanese were not terrorists, but the terrorists were from outside and had taken over the country and there was no way the citizens could truely get rid of them.
But what is Israel to do? We have forced israel to go on with the "road map to peace" the 2 state solution. You can't have a roadmap to peace or a 2 state solution with an enemy who won't acknowledge your right to exist. How do you retaliate when groups attack you, fire rockets into your country, kidnap and kill your soldiers and citizens? Israel has played it restrained for most of this decade. How much longer must she fight with one hand tied behind he back? We weren't preaching restraint when we fought the japanese in WW2, we let them know it was either unconditional surrender or total anialation. Eventually we got the surrender with the total destruction of 2 cities and not a whole country. I'm not in any way advocating that israel should use nuclear weapons, only that they need not show restraint. They need to dominate the enemy in order to end the violence.
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