Hezbollah says has right and duty to abduct Israeli troops

Haaretz (Israel) ^ | November 25, 2005 | Eli Ashkenazi and Amos Harel

[Stoat]

Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrilla group said on Friday it had a duty to try to capture Israeli soldiers and swap them for Arab prisoners in Israel, hours after Israel returned the remains of three militants.

"Our experience with the Israelis shows that if you want to regain detainees or prisoners ... you have to capture Israeli soldiers," Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah told a rally in Beirut to mark the handover of the bodies.

(note to readers: FR required this article to be excerpted. Please go to the Haaretz site to read the entire story. My apologies.)

[Stoat]

I see an easy solution to this.  Instead of conducting it's operations in a dignified and honorable way, respecting the traditional rules of warfare and going to incredible lengths to minimize civilian casualties (oftentimes at the expense of it's own soldiers' lives), Israel needs to minimize her troops' exposure to harm and therefore their exposure to kidnapping actions.

If anyone objects, invite them to instead speak with Hezbollah and ask them to become human beings instead of the terrorist scum that they are.

DEATH FROM ABOVE!

[Ashamed Canadian]

Those F-16s are wicked, I saw my first ever one at the airshow in Toronto this summer. I didn't think they would be louder than the F-18s we have, being a single engine aircraft, but man, I have never heard anything as loud as that in my life!!

[SmithL]

They have a right and a duty to die trying.

[Ashamed Canadian]

Except for The Who, of course....

[Stoat]

The Sound of Freedom and Liberty is an amazing thing, isn't it? :-)

[LibWhacker]

Another reason not to take islamic prisoners.

[DTogo]

Shalom!

[Stoat]

Although your approach would put numerous chefs out of work who are employed by the armed forces because they specialize in producing Islamofascist Food, and would also impact the Koran printing and prayer-rug weaving industries, I think that it would be a very small price to pay :-)

[Stoat]

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[DTogo]

Discussed here today:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1528433/posts
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m82.htm

[Stoat]

WOW! Thank you very much! :-)

[ArmyTeach]

Are Hezbollah such idiots that they fail to see that their actions will demand and deserve equal and opposite reaction? The answer is apparently 'yes.' They really do think they can maim and murder and commit other atrocities with impunity, then act the victim when faced with retaliation. They get away with it all the time. Israel, I love you, defend yourself!

[elcid1970]

BLOODY SAVAGES!!

[hershey]

So what happens when Israel kills all the Arabs/Palies, and Hezbollah? Will the Arab street be happy then?