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By Don Rothwell, published 11/8/2006Do Lebanon's failings justify the scale and intensity of the Israeli assault?
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Posted by keith, Sunday, 20 August 2006 5:57:59 PM
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I'm one of those who used to blindly support Isreal.
Strewth's right things have changed...since Arafat's death...You've lost the propaganda war. To win you've got to but cannot replace arafat with another arafat.
The Palestinians chose democracy. I listened and accepted their right to chose Hamas. You blokes never accepted their right to chose. You persuaded the US not to accept Hamas. You started a war because of that fact.
You lost futher support when you went to war against another Arab nation that had also chosen democracy.
I questioned my support for Israel during and as a consequense of those actions.
I love democracy and will support it's 'budding' anywhere. If you or Israel had such a love, especially when budding among your perceived enemies, you and they would have supported it's budding...however unfavourable it appeared at first to Israelis' interests.
You people should have realised Hamas and Hezbollah were accountable not to you and your weapons but to their own people...at the ballot box.
Those ideas lead me to think Israel doesn't accept or love democracy as I and the free world.
A big question mark hangs not over Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, or and particularly the Palestinians or Hamas, it hangs over Israel for it's attempt to usurp the democracy occurring in Palestine and Lebanon.
We in the free world take those things seriously...you misjudged that.
I'm leaving this discussion now.