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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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To ask such a question reduces the whole decades-long conflict into a single flare-up of violence. It's inappropriate and naive to take the current inflagration out of context. Israel has been a de facto occupier of south Lebaon since 1978, and Hezbollah is an uprising that is dedicated to ending that occupation and securing the return of tens of thousands of Lebanese being held by Israel. I'm not defending their tactics, but reducing this thing to "how many rockets do they have to shoot into Israel before Israel should go bomb the ever living fuck out of them" is simply wrongheaded.