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Skriven 2006-08-03 21:05:00 av Jeff Binkley (1:226/600)
     Kommentar till en text av Bob Sakowski
Ärende: Response?
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BS>Comments from JCZ, Portland, OR as seen at:

BS>http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/  (Page down)

BS>The blog of Eric Alterman for 08-03-06.

BS>1. If Lebanon doesn't control Hezbollah, is it really appropriate to
BS>wage war on them?  Would you also support an invasion of Mexico as
BS>part of the 'war on drugs'?

BS>2. Perhaps Hezbollah doesn't want peace, but by immediately breaking
BS>their own suspension of bombing, it doesn't look like Israel wants
BS>peace very much either.  Both sides have extremists, be they
BS>terrorists or settlers.

BS>3. Even if Israel has no choice in whether to do battle with
BS>Hezbollah, it has options when it comes to tactics.  Bombing
BS>campaigns are horribly destructive to civilians and infrastructure,
BS>but not necessarily good at stopping mobile rocket launchers.  Plus,
BS>this sort of disproportionate response is exactly what Hezbollah was
BS>hoping for. Perhaps supporting Israel should mean discouraging
BS>tactics that provide exactly what their enemies want.

BS>4. Dead is dead. To say that Israel doesn't deliberately target
BS>civilians is meaningless, because they know people will die when they
BS>drop bombs. You aren't innocent of murder if you fired with your eyes
BS>closed. And I'm sick of hearing that the civilians can just leave.
BS>That's not remotely true when all of the roads and bridges have been
BS>destroyed.

BS>5. Israel withdrew from Gaza... sort of.  It's not like the
BS>Palestinian authority was ever given the sort of freedom needed to
BS>keep their crazies under control.

BS>6. I think you're too quick to dismiss that "right of return".  Not
BS>only does it seem fair to me- for one thing, how is it really a
BS>Palestinian State if they don't get to decide who can come live
BS>there?  My understanding is that Arafat gave up just about everything
BS>he could without being assassinated by his own side.  He'd given up
BS>plenty too, and the Israelis share just as much blame for walking
BS>away without an agreement.  As to Israel's options, I go back to the
BS>choice of tactics. By engaging them directly, they've handed
BS>Hezbollah a victory simply for surviving this long in the face of
BS>overwhelming military superiority. That probably doesn't help Israel
BS>at all.

BS>[snip]

BS>Care to comment Alan?

Excellent.  Keep posting this left leaning stuff.  Nice to see the left 
showing their true colors.


Jeff

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