Well, how would you recommend Israel react? Keep in mind, the land Hezbullah says they are fighting for is some tiny little pissant farmland that the U.N. said was part of Israel. That pissant little piece of land is just Hezbullah's excuse to keep attacking Israel, so that they don't have to break out the plain-ol'-racial-prejudice excuse.

Lebanon's government isn't strong enough to control Hezbullah, so what you have is a terrorist organization, propped up by Iranian funding, operating in Lebanon and using that as their base to launch attacks against Israel. By various U.N. decrees, Lebanon was supposed to keep the terrorists away from the Israeli border, but they haven't, because they haven't the strength to make Hezbullah do anything.

So, you've basically got criminals in Lebanon, in areas that they have been forbidden to go to by the U.N., attacking Israel. Israel has asked that Lebanon make Hezbullah stop these attacks, but the attacks continued. At some point, your average Israeli citizen must hold his or her government responsible for providing security and defense. If talking doesn't accomplish that goal (it didn't), then you have to move on to some other tactic. In this case, Israel has decided if talking to Lebanon and Hezbullah isn't going to work, then perhaps blowing the crap out of them for a while might make them more amenable to talking. Whether that works or not remains to be seen, but clearly talking alone wasn't making the Israelis any safer in their homes.

If Mexicans started lobbing bombs and striking into U.S. soil with soldiers, we'd probably try talking to them about it first, just as Israel did. But if the attacks continued, I can guaran-fucking-tee you that we'd go bomb the crap out of them until they realized the error of their ways. While I feel sorry for the innocent Lebanese being killed (and the innocent Israelis being killed, for that matter), the people in Lebanon have indirectly put themselves in this position by allowing a terrorist organization to have so much power in their country.
jamstigator Reviewed by jamstigator on . An Open Letter to the World(by an Israeli) Email Today | July 23, 2006 Posted on 07/23/2006 6:59:59 AM PDT AN OPEN LETTER TO THE WORLD An Israeli's reply to the world (UN) can be summed up in two words and they aren't Happy Birthday. Rating: 5