Let me see Marilyn...
the answer to your question 6 is 'no country'

As a previous commenter said...there are UN resolutions against Israel, hence every resolution cannot have been vetoed

The answer to your question 10 is 'No country'. The US is still in Afghanistan. And Iraq is not being lost, except if you class having loony leftists wishing they lose count.

Question 11.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,19955774-5007220,00.html

Come on now Marilyn. Stop with the loony leftist wingnut routine. Join us in reality

Glorious Hezbollah, brave Hamas, hiding behind women and children.

Aren't they wonderful?

Aren't they admirable?

Aren't they splendid human beings?

In answer to Rache, no I don't think Hezbollah should "…march out to an empty paddock somewhere and wait for the Israeli Airforce to come and engage them in a fair fight."

I don't think Hezbollah should be engaging in a fight at all. It is not the army of Lebanon. It has no authority to launch an attack on a sovereign state from the territory of Lebanon. It has no authority to acquire an arsenal of offensive weapons - including over 10,000 missiles - and base them on Lebanese territory among Lebanese women and children.

But if, for their own murderous reasons, Hezbollah do want to start a fight they could build their bunkers away from civilian areas.

TurnRightThenLeft,

It's not a case of "Hezbollah bad. Israel good".

It's a case of murderous thugs against an imperfect democracy. Israel is not always "good." Neither is Australia.

But if we are going to be partisan, Israel is infinitely more deserving of our support than men who hide behind women and children. When you see those images of dead children being brought out of the rubble in Lebanon reflect on this:

They're dead because Hezbollah started a war that forces its opponent to target areas containing children.

What sort of people would place military equipment in areas where children play?

If you must assign blame at least give the lion's share of it to Hezbollah.

Marilyn

Keep it up. You are bringing out all the Israeli propagandists.
Watch them slink back to their verandah's once the US and the rest of the world demands Israel return to it's pre'67 borders and the armed civilians in the illegal and criminal West Bank settlements go on a rampage. Especially in that divided city of Jeruselem.

Mate they will go absolutely ballistic when the site of The Al Asqua mosque on Temple Mount remains in Palestinian territory. You only have to look at the talk of the likes of Boaz David to see that.

As for me being leftist. That's a joke I am liberal and many have called me extreme rightwing for my views on Islam. Those sorts of allegations and name calling highlight the rabidity of the claims of many of the Israeli mouthpieces.

According to the wonderfully thoughtful Marilyn Shepherd (post of 2:11:34 PM), there are "many anglo countries now trying to pretend it was the arabs who committed the holocaust ... "

Which Anglo countries are these, Marilyn? I've never heard anybody, anywhere suggest that it was the Arabs who committed the Holocaust, although, of course, Holocaust denial is alive and well in much of the Arab and Muslim world.

Also there is an interesting article at http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3284514,00.html#n which reports from a Lebanese website the strong suggestion that Hezbollah (even typing their name fills me with revulsion) stage-managed the attack at Qana by placing a rocket launcher on the roof of the building and then brought invalid children inside. By using the rocket launcher they drew a desired Israeli response. Destroyed building, fifty or so people dead and opprobrium heaped upon Israel

Alan you are a nut case - I have that photo in the Sunday Mail in Adelaide and obviously you didn't notice the glaring stupidities in the story.

1. it was parked in a christian suburb and no christian suburbs of Beirut have been blown up, except for one water drilling truck.
2. The christian suburbanites have their own splendid militia - in this case the only flag was a Lebanese flag and not Hezbollah.
3. There have been no rockets or fire arms or anything else fired from Beirut into Israel, they simply don't have the weapons to reach that far. Chris Tinkler was suckered because he allowed himself to be, because of his own racism I presume.
I suggest people read the HUN's report by Pendlebury today.
4. The US have vetoed the implementation of every single resolution against Israel.

Now to the evil Hamas and Hezbollah. Geez, you folks don't have clue do you?

Both of these organisations do have a small armed wing and have never denied it. But their main thing is resisting Israeli occupation and neither existed before that occupation. Both also provide welfare services to hungry people, Hezbollah build hospitals and clinics.

I tell you what got and do some reading of reality then get back to me.

John,

That had to be the most irrelevant article on the Mid East I've ever read.

You're not writing for The Washington Post or New York Times here...perhaps you could enrol in a Mid East 101 course at your local night college.