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Originally Posted by willravel
Actively and passively killing civilians has the same result, no matter the intent. Pair that fact up with the fact that over 150 Lebanese people and around 24 Israeli people have died since this began, and the moral scale isn't as one sided. Israel was not trying to kill terrorists when they hit the airport. At best, they wer trying to destroy Lebanese infurstructure.
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Well duh. of course they were destroying the infrastructure. Thats part of war. Israel wants to keep syria and iran from flying more missiles in, so they take out the airport. Because it wasn't done at 3am doesn't mean israel was trying to target civillians. You say yourself you aren't a military tactician, so stop trying. You don't know that israeli intel had some information that required the runway to be bombed no later. You act as if israel leveled the terminal. A slab of concrete got holes put in it. No one died.
You seem to be missing the fact that the rockets fired into israel are coming from civillian areas in lebanon. they
are being fired from apartment windows. Perhaps the "lop-sided" body count is that way because of how Hezbollah positions their forces and because they truely do not care for the people of lebanon. To them the death of innocents (muslim or not) is justified by the destruction of israel.
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Originally Posted by willravel
I suspect the answer lies in forcing the UN to back up it's own resolutions, but again, I'm not a military tactician. The UN troops located in Southern Lebanon could be deployed to go to the source of the Hezbollah rockets and stop them from being fired. We could also freeze accounts and stop the funding of Hezbollah by a few wealthy people in Iran and Syria.
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Forcing the UN. did you just type that? how in the hell is anyone going to force the UN to do anything? The UN is useless as an enforcer of their own rules. THey write up documents and sometimes they are followed other times they aren't. Like UN Resolution 1559 - which was ignored. We all see how well the UN troops in south lebanon did at keeping hezbollah from attacking israel. Before you continue to clamor for UN troops please read Xazy's article a few posts up. Freezing accounts of "a few wealthy people in iran and syria? Its that simple is it?
So you assume israel, the US, and other western powers just have the ability to freeze iranian assets in iranian banks? how bout syrian assets in iranian banks? how would we go about doing that?
Your plan is weak and misguided.