Dear NYer,
"Here are the statistics. This 33 days of war left 1140 dead (427 are under 18), 3630 wounded, 973,000 refugees, 11 billion dollars of damage, 30 vital constructions destroyed (airports, sea ports, power stations, ...), 33 gas stations destroyed, 630 Km of roads damaged, 145 bridges smashed to the ground, 7000 apartments gone, 9000 institutions (factories, shopping malls, shops, farms, etc...) burned down.
"You consider this to be the actions of a civilized people?"
In that it is the Israelis who caused this destruction while fighting for their nation's existence against terrorists who randomly fire missiles in order to murder Jews, your question implies that perhaps you don't think the Israelis are civilized.
Is that true? Do you view the Israelis as not civilized?
sitetest
Yeah, you're right. How dare NYer call Israel "uncivilized" for destroying a country in retaliation for the kidnapping of two soldiers. Shame on her. She doesn't know that if Israel (with its 200 nuclear missiles and the fourth largest army in the world) is fighting for its very existence against those vicious Gucci bag-toting, Prada clad, Mercedes driving, Paris educated Lebanese living in Beirut. Yeah, I can just picture Selma Hayek donning a bandolier and fighting side by side with those Syrian/Iranian paid fruitloops in Hezbollah.
I can not believe how much cool-aid seemingly intelligent people drink when it comes to the actions of the State of Israel.
I refer you to GipperGal's post below.
"Have you ever read anything at all about the 1967 War? Lebanon didn't participate in that war, by the way, but the Lebanese suffered for it, primarily because they had a couple hundred thousand Palestinian "guests" deposited on their border by Israel. The presence of these Palestinian guerrilla groups, who used and continue to use Lebanon as their playgroup to make war on Israel, led directly to the destabilization of Lebanon and the subsequent civil war."
It bears repeating!