Posted on 02/03/2015 10:51:11 AM PST by Freeport
The time has come to free Lebanon from the grip of Hezbollah, Iran and Syria. The time has come for a long-lasting peace, with prosperity and dividends for everybody in the region.
Dear Israel, If you are thinking of attacking Hezbollah in Lebanon, please do not repeat the mistake you made in 2006 when you attacked all of Lebanon, and not just Hezbollah and its strongholds. That was a strategic error, and we are all still paying the price, as it made Hezbollah stronger, not weaker.
In 2006, the majority of Lebanese hated Hezbollah. They had no doubt Hezbollah was a cancer.
When that war started and was originally confined to South Lebanon, many other parts of Lebanon began to rejoice and dream of the possibility that if Israel were to weaken Hezbollah there, the rest of the country could squeeze it from the other side, and finish it.
But that fantasy didn’t last too long, as Israel started bombing other areas of Lebanon, deep into Christian regions, the northern regions, mountains, bridges, factories, oil refineries and power plants. By doing so, Israel made just about everybody in Lebanon its victim, and that turned popular opinion against it, while giving more sympathy to Hezbollah. In essence, Israel fell into the geopolitical trap Hezbollah set for it. By weakening Lebanon, Israel made Hezbollah stronger, and allowed it to continue consolidating and expanding its powers, which it has been doing ever since.
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Dear Peirre, kindly take responsibility for your country and do what it takes to rid itself from the Hezbollah vermin. Israel is willing to help you as much as you are willing to help yourself. Until you show real determination in this regard you are aiding and abetting the terrorists and should not expect a different outcome should rockets once again originate from your soil aimed at our children. Comprende?
I blame the French.
That’s the Greeks, from the island of Lesbos.
The writer said nothing wrong and to glibly dismiss his comments by telling him to man up, you are ignoring the predicament he faces. When you are occupied by murderers it’s not that easy to just turn it around. People like him are in a tough spot.
He is also right that the key to this situation remains Iran.
Islamic Violins.....
Never mind ....
Until the Nations banish the head-choppers, there will be no peace.
Translation: Israel please come and fight my war for me.
All are conservatives!
You’d be right to. They intentionally destabilized it by adding Muslim regions so they had pretext to play policeman.
If only Europe knew the consequences of their cynical games during decolonization.
I understand the emotions in this. I was in Lebanon, having arrived for a meeting 1 day before the 2006 war began. I asked several colleagues in Lebanon, there opinion. The most memorable was, “Well, no one likes their country invaded, but it’s like this.. “The garbage man has come to take out the trash, he just happens to be Jewish.” Lebanon is a beautiful country, it is ashame the Shia Hezbollah has ascended to the control it has.
There is nothing stopping Lebanese who are “sick of hezballah” from seeking parley with Israel to wipe out the ‘cancer.’
I’ve known a few people who told me Beirut used to be one of the world’s most beautiful cities.
Beirut was the “Paris of the Middle East,” as well as its Switzerland. I was there in the early ‘70s and saw it.
Then came the PLO after they were expelled from Jordan.
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