Strewth – I’m sure you wont mind if I address you as ‘Numbskull’ since this is my opinion of you. Only fair since you have taken the liberty of addressing me as Tweedledee, which you probably think is the height of brilliant wit. And no more mention of ‘Arab leaders’ from you – guess you found that the quotes by Hamas and PLO leaders were correct.

’Remember the PLO?’

Sure – the organization led by the monster who invented modern terrorism: airplane hijackings, kidnappings and mass murder, like the Olympic massacre of 1972.

This sermon by Arafat-appointed and funded Ahmad Abu Halabiya was broadcast live on official Palestinian Authority television early in the Intifada. The subject is "the Jews." (NB: not the Israelis, but the Jews.)

"They must be butchered and killed, as Allah the Almighty said: 'Fight them: Allah will torture them at your hands.' . . . Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them."

But of course, according to you, this doesn’t mean that the aim of ‘Arab leaders’ was and is the obliteration of Israel. Perish the thought!

‘ A secular, democratic state in all of Palestine for all its citizens’

This is so laughable that I wont waste space commenting except to say that Arafat never had any intention of creating such a thing – if he had truly cared about the Palestinians, he would have spent some of the billions he received on things like hot running water, electricity and medical care. Instead, Palestinian children are taught hatred with their mothers milk.

‘If not, sooner or later, the UN will have to institute sanctions like it did with South Africa.’

LOL - I’m sure the Israelis will be shaking in their shoes

Keith,

Thank you for the enlightenment,

So your position truly is that the 1 million Lebanese that support Hizbollah (That would truly be the most ambitious estimate of their support) should be able to impose their will on the ~6 million Israeli's & the other 5 million Lebanese without any UN approval whatsoever, and in fact in clear contravention of UN resolutions?

WHY?

A rational considered answer would be appreciated, however, I shall not hold my breath.

Inshallah

2bob

The very sad thing about this story, is how Iran is making money
out of this war, at the cost of Israeli and Lebanese lives.

Iran's madcap prez provides Hezbollah with a pile of rockets.
The fanatics amongst Hezbollah, of course are going to try
and use them. The Israelis naturally respond to rockets being
fired into their communities, nobody can blame them for that.

World oil traders, aware that the West is hooked on Arab oil and
that 40% of it has to pass the Straites of Hormuz, push the
price up by 10$. Iran, exporting 3 million barrels a day, cashes
in an extra 30 million $ day, without a single Iranian life
at risk.

In reality Iran is becoming even richer at the expense of
Lebanese/ Arab blood, having been manipulated by religious
dogma. Its sad that the Lebanese don't realise that they
are being taken for a ride by Iran, who are of course not
Arabs.

The West has made one huge mistake, ie. depending on the
Middle East for its energy supplies. We are yet to pay
a huge price for that

There you go again 2bob. And not very witty either.

Mate if Hezbollah were to invade Israel, as the Israeli's are currently invading Lebanon, I'd have the exact same attitudes. Would you?

Now that 2bob is considered. Can you rise to the same level of impartiality?

Time for the UN to be saved from US imperialism.

1. United States has placed itself in charge of global decisionmmaking without any license. Her only license is one of self-appointment. The mistaken belief that because she is now unipolar, and to have achieved that position through the fall of the Soviet Union, the US automatically should rule the world.

2. But how wrong it is in a world that the US is always asking for democracy, which should mean that the US should rule this world not through blatant power, but by means of a democratic vote arranged in a democratic institution such as the United Nations.

3. Further, because the UN does try to make laws at the behest of global representatives, the US now continually knocks back such laws because they are against the interests of Pax Americana, a cynical label for a country which like the old Roman Empire, for the last few years has inisted in holding the big end of a non-libertinian stick

Bushbred Part Two

No more proof of America’s lack of global democratic activity has been her recent countermanding of a UN Resolution to fully discuss the Israeli attack on Lebanon. And how does our modern US countermand such laws?. By means of an outmoded veto only placed in the UN constitution originally through the insistence of the world’s two strongest powers to each have entitlement to use the veto at the time, the United States and the Soviet Union.

Furthermore, the fact the US has been allowed to use her outmoded veto, proves what a dumbed down set of scaredy-cats we now have as national and commonwealth representatives, which includes not only Britain, but our gutless Labor opposition in Australia, which appears to regard John Howard as Labor’s spokesman in world affairs which he definitely is not, which has been proven every time he prostrates himself before George W Bush, as just a weak lackey of Pax Americana.

It is suggested that with such impending problems again pressing our Middle East, America’s undemocratic and autocratic attitude to the situation should be much more discussed through our so wonderfully convenient Online