Finally OLO has published an article that has given some context to the current conflict. The mainstream media seems to have completley forgotten about the shelled Gaza beach and the consequent upsurge in violence in Gaza. Acoording to the MSM this war started when the Israeli soldiers were captured.

Unfortunatley the internet may be the worlds only hope. The MSM forgets a lot of things. Like the fact that the DoD in the US happens to have misplaced its surveillance tapes showing a large commercial airplane crashing into the pentagon.

The MSM has slso forgotten about the professional demolition of the third WTC building in New York. Nor can they locate one of the many thousands of civil engineers in the country who can explain to us that professioanl demolitions take months of planning, yet somehow, Larry Silverstein, owner of the WTC managed to plan one in only 7 hours.

I do hope the MSM recovers from its short term memory loss problems

Excellent article.

In this atmosphere of blame shifting it reminds us all what every school child (at least in my day) could tell you:

"two wrongs don't make a right".

Answering violence with further violence will only fuel destruction and hatred for generations to come.

This article is long overdue.

Fear is born of ignorance, and there's a lot of it about. For every 'fact' there's a counter-argument; the only rational conclusion is that protagonists on both sides are as inhumane as each other.

Welllll...I see Dr Goebells DID have more offspring spawning this curious 'non-sectarian' blabbermouth who is member of a SECTARIAN group dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the 'Nakba' so called.

Including exiled JEWS from Arab lands ?

Anyway..... his take on the events is in desperate need of scrutiny.

If Israel had done anything BUT formulate a plan to destroy Hezbollah after withdrawing from Lebanon, I would be stunned and regard them as politically stupid.

Anderson did NOT mention that the day of Nasrallah's little adventure was the day before when Iran was meant to respond to the UN re its Nuclear intentions. Biased ? hah !

Here is a little newsflash for the obviously politically and historically challenged author.. EVERY NATION MAKES MILITARY PLANS regarding potential threats.. and if you think Australia does not have them re Indonesia.. you need therapy, then a stint in 're-education camp' with the sole study text being the Old Testament, it makes enlightening reading regarding the area. He might then gain a slight inclination of what lies BEHIND these peoples and events.

This article was a very sloppy attempt to attribute 'evil' to Israel for what pretty much every other government is doing anyway.

If he wishes to make some mud stick, at least make it good mud.

ARMAGEDDON ?

Well that was a good one, but sorry ridicule only works with insecure people.

As I've labored a few times.. PIVOTAL EVENTS in history will make or break the future. Tours in 722.. Vienna 1683 to name but 2 of recent mention.

Ahmadinajad is seeing visions, halucinating about '12 imam'... dreaming and dribbling about 'obliterating Israel' telling us it has 'hit the self destruct button'.... and providing $100,000,000 to Hezbollah (I'm told, I've not seen the bank statements).....each year for .....*think*

Ingredients for Armageddon.

1/ War with Iran, oil is cutoff
2/ China will not stand for that.
3/ China is able to raise 20,000,000 soldiers with reserves. (refer Revelation)
4/ China+Iran defeat Israel, defile the Temple mount.

GAME OVER....MESSIAH COMES ? who can know this side of possible events.

Wonderful balanced article, by someone with absolutely no preconceptions? The authors site:

http://www.deiryassin.org/mas.html

Must be viewed in light of the following site, detailing precisely the same event, but from the diametrically opposed historical viewpoint:

http://www.etzel.org.il/english/

So yes I agree, to some extent, one has to rely on the internet to address the chronically one sided news coverage provided by the media, particularly SBS & ABC.

The current attacks are about to increase in severity according to one of the people that wrote the IDF handbook:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1153292016092&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

I have suggested elsewhere that after providing a warning and sufficient time to comply with it, all villages in South Lebanon may now be treated as being entirely hostile. The benefit of which will be a shorter war, which ultimately causes less civilian casualties.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/743210.html

In fact, by bypassing defended locales, such as Bint Jbail, while blockading all exits from them, the IDF could then utilise its overwhelming advantage in artillery and aerial bombardment, to critically weaken Hizbollah. The remainder of the forces could then operate freely in the interior of Southern Lebanon, whilst any Hizbollah force that attempted to attack them would have to come out into the open.

Inshallah

2bob

For those who believe that the Palestinian Authority, including HAMAS ministers, are fighting this war out of some sort of solidarity with their constituency, please read this article:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1153291988137&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Australia was recently caught-out because it did not have "PLANS" for the evacuation of its citizens from Lebanon. Australia has all sorts of plans for all sorts of contigencies. Many of these are military plans. Many are not. Most are top-secret because lives may depend on them. As David_B points out above, Australia has detailed military plans on responses to possible Indonesian Agression, and even First-Strike against terrorists in Asia-Pacific nations.

Colin of course is anti-Jew, in all its hideous forms. Clinging to a supposed 50 year old war attrocity, his stops at nothing to spread his venomous hatred of anything Jewish. Did Dier Yassin happen? Probably. Can Colin fix it? - No.

Colin seeks revenge. Cold, cruel bloody revenge. He supports terror as on means of obtaining this revenge. His goal is the erradication of the state of Isreal, his means is the murder of every Jewish man, woman and child at the hands of the terrorist, preferably by knife.

I have no time for such as Colin.