May Hezbollah follow the words of allah and blow up as many people as he/they wish.

Can anyone remind Marilyn that, according to sharia law, if a woman gets raped by her father-in-law, she should get 100 lashes and should divorce her husband.

With regard to the article -what a piece of twaddle!

It could only have been written by someone
safely esconded in middle class suburbia far from the front lines

Hezbollah is not some isolated phenomena peculiar to Lebanon.
It is a common element found in most Islamic societies from Indonesia to Morocco

Its etiology is not some “injustices” committed by Israel, but currents in Islam (& common, at one time or other, to many Semitic religions).These groups don’t need a genuine justifiable grievance. In the relatively closed, censored societies they operate, where they control what is said, read & thought they can manufacture & sustain any grievance they like.

Hezbollah & its ilk acts as lightening rod for every malcontents, every maladjusted,anti- western, anti- authority element around. (and if they didn’t gravitate towards the extreme side of Islam they’d have to find something else)

Granted you won’t defeat Hezbollah with one or two military attacks however destructive.You need to liberalize the societies that engenders them.Perhaps such societies will in time, of their own accord, liberalize.There is some liberalization occurring in even the most rigid Moslem societies, and in time all creeds change & breakdown.

I sometimes think that the current wave of extremism may prove to be the last dying gasp of fundamentist religion before mankind matures and moves into a modern, secular world

"Its etiology is not some “injustices” committed by Hezbollah, but currents in Judaism(& common, at one time or other, to many Semitic religions).This country doesn’t need a genuine justifiable grievance. In the relatively closed, censored society it operates, where control of what is said, read & thought manufacturing & sustaining any grievance is likely.

Israel & its ilk act as a lightening rod for every malcontent, every maladjusted, anti-Arab, anti- Islamic element around. (and if they didn’t gravitate towards the extreme side of Judaism they’d have to find something else)

Granted you won’t defeat Israel with one or two military attacks however destructive.You need to liberalize the society that engenders it .Perhaps such a society will in time, of it's own accord, liberalize. There is some liberalization occurring in even the most rigid of Judaist fundamentism, and in time all creeds change & breakdown.

I sometimes think that the current wave of extremism may prove to be the last dying gasp of fundamentist religion before mankind matures and moves into a modern, secular world "

[NB I am citing and editing Horus. I'm changeing a few words here and there. This is not my view of Israel, Judaism nor the Jews or any other semitic people.]

Now Horus if I'd written something along those lines and posted it here or anywhere then I'd be quite rightly condemned as a bigoted racist.

Now why shouldn't the same standard and judgement apply to what you've posted?

The Israeli sympathizers and their venom come out and gang up on Marylyn Sheppard simply because she won’t bow down to Zion and searches for her own information. I cursed Hizballah for their attack on Israel, the excuse that Israel needed to start a war to take them out. But the utter barbarity that Israel showed with their indiscriminate bombing, their insane destruction of democratic Lebanon a Christian country the only one in the Arab world disgusted me to such a degree that within a couple days I was supporting Hizballah. The truth of the matter is and always will be: it is Israel that does not want peace in the Middle East it wants land and until thinly disguised anti-Muslim bigots open their eyes and understand that simple truth they will continue to defend the indefensible.

It's not in the online version but I recommend all people responding here to get today's AGE and see a graphic attached to Mark Coultan's piece on Lebanon/Israel - it should shock some of you fool's into silence when you see the horror Israel inflicted on almost every town or village from one end of Lebanon to the other.

Drooge, thank you. For the life of me I can find no reasoned argument in the 21st century for a Jewish state when 61% of the world's Jews don't want to live there.

Now to Hezbollah - they grew out of a movement to kick out Israel who occupied Lebanon illegally for 18 years and used christian Lebanese soldiers to slaughter Palestinian refugees in Shatila and Sabra and murdered 22,000 people in all.

Israel had no right to occupy Lebanon then or now yet today they are bombing Lebanon again in defiance of the ceasefire.

There is also a question sitting like an elephant in the corner of the room - with support for Hezbollah running at nearly 90% in Lebanon thanks to the sickening carnage caused by Israel why on earth would the Lebanese army want to protect Israel?

Also - hands up those contributors who love Jews and hands up those who would have supported Australia saying in 1938 "we in Australia don't have a racial problem and are not desirous of importing one".

After that statement and others by 21 Western nations 6 million Jews were slaughtered. Many here think refugees are the scum of the earth yet the Jews who escaped the holocaust paid smugglers, threw their children off trains, sewed their money and jewels into their clothes, disguised themselves as christians and all manner of tricks. It was this that caused the west to set up Israel and write the refugee convention which many here want to throw in the bin.

I will write my feelings about it all after I know I will be vilified and told to go and live under sharia law where women are raped by their fathers.