Strewth: Hezbollah are a terrorist organisation which is committed to the denial of democracy and the imposition of its own selfish ends by violent and terrorising means (just like the IRA).

Just as Yuyutsu observed, Hezbollah used babies as human shields. It shows the world exactly what sort of loathsome and heinous subhuman scum they are.
That you choose to empathise with them obviously reflects, in a negative manner, on you - “birds of a feather flock together” etc.

The Hezbollah are a secret organisation which uses intimidation and menaces to enforce their will upon women and children. Doubtless there are a lot of Lebanese who support the Israeli efforts to eradicate this virulent infection from their land – there were plenty of Lebanese who supported the departure of Hezbollahs Masters, the Syrian occupation forces, last year and doubtless, Syria is still looking to ferment unrest and re-establish its jack-boot authority over its smaller neighbour (not all Lebanese are “Muslim” and not all Lebanese are Hezbollah supporters).

As for the Palestinians, they have, consistently, failed to acknowledge or exercise what peaceful options have been offered them. They have consistently broken their word and avoided commitment at every opportunity. Eventually they will become extinct through their own incompetence.

Leo Braun I previously stated “Your capacity for over-the-top-unsubstantiated-derogatory generalisations and vilifications qualifies your comments as puerile, asinine and not worthy of further comment.”

Nothing else need be said

HEZBOLLAH might be the 'marionette' but IRAN is pulling the strings.

I am insulted when newscasts refer to the 'good social and educational work' done by Hezbollah, simply because they cannot do these things without FUNDING, and funding cannot arise for widespread social programs when they are themselves the 'POOREST' segment of Lebanese society.

FURTHER if they could find the money to run such health and educational and poverty alleviation programs from the poorest of the poor, it does NOT explain where they find the funding for THIRTEEN THOUSAND OFFENSIVE missiles not to mention the MOST SOPHISTICATED anti tank defensive missiles that they are using.

What all this DOES tell us, is that there are 'OUTSIDERS' manipulating, using and abusing these poor Shiites for their own strategic advantage !

Now, I can hear the cry already "But the US backs and supplies Israel"

Points.

1/ Israel DID withdraw (yes, Strewth, they 'withdrew' they were not defeated unless you say that a Knesset decision was a defeat.. ok, if it floats ur boat, well and good) from both South Lebanon and Gaza.

2/ Missiles have OFFENSIVE orientation.

3/ Hezbollah and Hamas and IRAN and Syria are by nature and definition OUR ENEMIES. It does not matter squat whether we try to call them "terrorists" and in fact it is even WRONG to call them that.

They are simply our 'enemies' who are hell bent on ruling us. As such they must be destroyed or ruled, one or the other. There can be no half measures. (speaking purely in a human manner)

Todays "Enemy" is tomorrows RULER unless you act first and firmly.

P.S. The Tribal allotment by Divine Mandate for Israel INCLUDES much of South Lebanon, (Sidon and Tyre) plus Jordan and slabs of Syria.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/1759_map_Holy_Land_and_12_Tribes.jpg
Be thankful they have self-restraint.

Just what wild wackyweed have you been chewing on BOAZ_David ....??

Tribal allotment by divine mandate..... WHOSE divine being made this damned allotment and where was it recorded? .... Just WHO has recorded this amazing land grab ... and of course WHERE is it recorded?

Prithy tell now David, surely you are not going to rely on the old testiment now are you? Was that written by some divine (sic) being who gave all the land to the Jews? ... or was it written by the Jews themselves?

And now they are showing such magnificent restraint .... I would hate to see the world if they were actually in a tizz now, so please excuse me if I have a small chuckle of hollow mirth

Kekenidika “Was that written by some divine (sic) being who gave all the land to the Jews”

Oh what a fool to present such an idiotic question.

Answer Oh course not, “keke”.

Just as no one wrote that Hezbollah would fire rockets into Israel without inciting a response and a bunch of Shiite Muslims (why do they add the extra “i” – it does not distinguish them from their source) would destroy the peace and tranquillity of the industrious Christian Lebanese?

Likewise Palestinians, who have turned their back on every opportunity for peace, simply behave like a bunch of doubly incontinent cot cases when Israel responds Hamas’ pathetic attempts at military force.

Someone needs to administer the Gaza strip and Lebanon, it is clear, those who inhabit that land have no idea how to do it for themselves, certainly not from the Muslims among them, at least

Hi Col, tao here (make that Tristan if you like)

I was wondering how you reconcile your belief - “FACT - Everything which I promote diametrically opposes the notions of Divine Right of Kings and stands squarely against all forms of religious or authoritarian social orders.” - with your support for the religious political and social order of Israel which claims its right to exist (and pulverize non-adherents) on the grounds of religion.

Just another inconsistency in your thought?

Oh tao / tristan, you have been quiet for some time, been off licking your wounds?

As for “inconsistency of thought” on my part regarding the Divine Right of Kings and

“religious political and social order of Israel which claims its right to exist (and pulverize non-adherents) on the grounds of religion.”

Unless I am mistaken, Hezbollah, as the sycophantic acolytes of the manevolent religious zealots from Iran and the corrupt and incompetent manipulators from Syria were the ones who decided to keep firing the rockets over Lebanon’s southern border. Now noting, Hezbollah, just like the IRA against Britain, are not appointed or authorised to pursue (with any national government authority) a war of attrition against Israel.

I see no problem with the democratically and duly elected government of Israel resorting to whatever measures it sees necessary to protect its citizens and to determine to retrieve its kidnapped soldiers from these despicable cowards of Hezbollah who hide behind women and babies.

Although, for what seems like empathy with said life scum bags comes, based on your other deluded views, as no surprise at all. As we saw in your purile article posted on this very site -

“Reality” seems always to challenge you just as “reason” eludes you Tao/Tristan, I can see you next proclaiming the virtues of Hamas, maybe claim they run hospitals etc -

well they need to, it is their actions, in sending their own rockets and bombers into Israel which result in more Palestinian death and injuries.

Have a nice day tao, bring on all your piffling drivel, it is easy to see you have no real sense or experience of the way the world is and thus rate as incapable of reasoned comment.