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Originally Posted by willravel
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).
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That's an answer to (or a discourse on) a question I didn't ask. It also violates what hiredgun requested, namely:
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Originally Posted by hiredgun
Let's think deeper than merely listing numbers and material losses
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I don't want to get into a statistical shootout by listing all of the attacks BESIDES the two soldiers--it's hard to believe that you act as if the two soldiers are the entirety of what prompted the violence. Sometimes it appears that many here don't believe Israel has a right to exist.
In other words, I'm still looking for an answer to my question.