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Originally Posted by _God_
Serious question, no sarcasm intended or implied:
How many times would Hizbollah have to shoot at Israel (or how many Israelis would have to die their hands) before you would consider that a military response from Israel would be warranted?
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The Hezbollah kidnapped Israeli soldiers. In response Israel killed thousands of Lebanese civilians, a few Hezbollah members (somwhere in the low hundreds?), and displaced millions. The ratio of dead Lebanese to Israelis is 30:1.
Israel still occupies some of Lebanon, btw. Israel was forced out of most of Lebanon in 2000, but still occupies Shaba Farms (and area said to belong to Syria, though Syria has not claimed that land since the 1976 6-day war). Syria already ceceeded the area to Lebanon, but the rest of the world has not accepted that ceceetion.
Israel has every right to protect itself within reason. The problem is that protecting yourself by invading a country that has almost no defences is kinda stupid (see US/Iraq war).