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Originally Posted by Charlatan
It doesn't matter what worked or didn't work in the past. The only real solution to this conflict will require diplomacy. If Hamas won't recognize Israel so be it. Israel *still* needs to continue to extend the olive branch...
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Israel offered Hezbollah a cease-fire as long as the two kidnapped soldiers were returned and as long as the Lebanese government complied with United Nation's Security Resolution 1559. Unsurprisingly, Hezbollah refused any kind of cease fire and has vowed to continue fighting.
What country in the world would continue to extend an olive branch to those people who continue to shell it's cities, kill it's citizens and kidnap it's soldier?
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I have no solution for this mess. All I can do is shake my head as Lebanon is once more made the battlefield for other's issues. They are proving to be the Belgium of the Middle East.
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Is Lebanon the Belgium of the Middle East? Hardly. If the terrorists are a part of your government, then you have to accept the consequences of that decision.
Israel hadn't occupied Lebanon since 2000, as they pulled out over six years ago. Does anyone remember United Nation's Security Resolution 1559? Apparently not, because the United Nation's isn't enforcing it and neither is Lebanon. Hezbollah continues to attack Israel from a place which they were supposed to be removed from almost two years ago. Lebanon's defense is that they're too weak to remove the Hezbollah located in southern Lebanon. Well, that's fine and dandy, but if you're going to continue to allow a political faction located inside of your country to indescrimately fire rockets into another country, then you know that you run the risk of retaliation.
Do you think that if Hezbollah were firing rockets into the United States or Great Britain or any other western country that we'd be having this debate?