Well said Marilyn

Damn if you do - damn if you don't. To keep or not to keep the Palestinians (Hezbollah). That was the question that Lebanon could never answer.

Lebanon has paid a dear price in the past and is repaying it again today for harbouring The Palestinians that no other country wanted (except maybe Jordan).

In this close proximity neighbourhoods, it is impossible to separate the sheep from the goats; friends from enemies.

When the coward terrorist leaders cohabitate with civilians the casualties are unfortunately multiplied.

Lebanon had many years to think this over. She knew very well that these terrorists were up to no good inside their southern borders.

Israel has always been very clear with their non-negotiation with terrorists’ policy. No one likes to watch people die in this barbaric fashion, and a country destroyed, but hey this is the ME.

The only solution is total eradication of one party or the other : Israel or all the Islamic neighbours. Anything in between will always be potentially explosive.

This takes us to the US presence in the not too distant Iraq. I don't think this will be the best time for them to get out of there. With Iran and Syria ready to interfere, it won’t be long before we could see more Islamic countries helping to get rid of their number one enemy target: Israel. Not one Arab country really cares much about the poor Palestinians or Lebanese for that matter.

If anything it is now a great opportunity of the western alliance of the willing (and the not so willing) to reconsider their positions to what could well be a very long and bloody confrontation.

There won’t be peace in that region until Christ comes back.

what a terrible prime time war we are about to have.

this flare up will not die down, the middle east restructure has been happenning and will continue to do so for better or worse.

Arab nations will stick together to the end, but will be anihilated as they simply cannot punch out of their weight division.

Get out of Israel if you dont need to be there is all i will say, staying there now is inviting turmoil in your life.

GOD DAMN RELIGION, our last link with early civilisation, ruining lives again.

Shame on all of you, Muslim, Christians and Jews. Get out of the stone age and drop religion like a hot rock, take the noose from around your neck, we are an interconnected world now that does not need it.

If you need support get a shrink, if you want to give to the community volunteer, if you want security of going somewhere after you are dead dont worry we all do, but you will get there alot quicker if you want to face off against someone who does not believe what you do.

Look around you at your places of worship, realise they are just another entity, they were built by humans, like you.

In a few hundred years when religion is not necessary in an integrated functioning society people will look at you just like we look at the egyptians of yesteryear, or 2witches being burned at the stake. And oh theres mecca, i am sure Allah wants some of his followers to die every single year. For what?

Take a hard look at society and realise the problem in most conflicts derives from segregated people like you all. You and your brainwashed beliefs are the problem. Do anything you want in the name of God, the almighty scapegoat.

coach, you must really hate Palestinians. You obviously think they are all members of Hezbollah.

If you had done some research, you would have realised that Hezbollah is a Shia militia, and that Palestinians are in fact Sunnis, Druze or Christians.

The sad thing about blind hatred is that it is always built on the foundations of ignorance.

It says alot about Israel's actions that its support on these forums is largely limited to the fruitloop brigade.

A big part of me agrees with you realist. I try really hard to accept and respect religion, mostly because the majority of inhabitants of this world are religous and if I condemn it, I feel I am being elitist.

But on days like today I just hate it. I hate the certainty of purpose it gives people. I hate the way it makes run of the mill land grabs into explosive global conflicts. Probably most of all I hate the fundamentalists who use it to hate others, Boaz and Coach included.

I try to be tolerant, I really do. But I am imperfect, and on this day, my tolerance has worn thin and my hate for religion has prevailed.

Maybe tomorrow will be different.

Coach,
Your ignorance of the realities of Lebanese and Middle Eastern history is exceeded only by the hypocrisy you display in simultaneously,loudly and self-righteously trumpeting your religious beliefs whilst failing to practice them .

"And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you." (Matthew 6:5-6)

1 "Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. 3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, `Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.(Matthew 7:1)