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Originally Posted by Ustwo
To me Hezzbolah isn't 'the bad guys' because someone told me they were. Hezzbolah are the bad guys because they do a lot of bad things, like teaching a generation to hate and murder based on religion.
Oh and yea there is that whole 'random civilian rocket fire' thing too, you seem to weakly dismiss.
Sometimes in life its important to grow a backbone and pick a side, not waffle around trying to find the evil in good and the good in evil.
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Okay, but even your assessment is desperately one-sided.
Hezzbolah is demanding the return of roughly 2000 Lebanese detainees and the end of Israel's de-facto occupation of southern Lebanon. We don't hear much about that, of course, but the fact is that Israel has violated Lebanese sovreignty in the name of security for decades. Hezzbolah is fighting to end that. I'm not saying their actions are right, but even "they do a lot of bad things, so they're the bad guys" overlooks the justification for those bad things they do.
American media, of course, hasn't really mentioned these justifications. The American black-and-white mindset is fostered by the sound-bite-oriented news coverage we're given and the inborn biases of our culture and leadership. Israel = good, anybody muslim = bad. Who really cares what Israel has been doing to those no good terrorist towelheads for the last ten years?
As a side note, I think that the Israeli attitude of "protecting our people at any cost" is as dangerous an approach to global politics as anything on the planet.