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Originally Posted by haku
600 Lebanese *civilians* killed (not to mention half a million homeless) in retaliation for 2 *soldiers* captured, that's an incredible over reaction. If Western countries reacted like that each time Westerners are taken hostage in the Middle-East, we would have already nuked the whole region.
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There's a huge difference though between foreign civilians or soldiers are being held hostage and Israeli soldiers being kidnaped on their own teritory. That is a breech of geo-political sovergnity - one of the harshest things that could be done in international law. It's literaly a decleration of war and Hezbollah knew that damn well. I'm absolutely convinced every extremist military organization thrives on war and chaos, since that's when their suport is at it's strongest. And Hezbollah is in no way different. This latest war is a blessing in disguise for them, since they'll be able to recruit a bunch of new people who're 10 or 12 today and are in the process of starting to hate Israel as we speak. I think Israel did a foolish thing to retaliate in this manner, but I also think it's unjustified to demonize them. They're doing what many countries would do if their sovergnity was threatened in such a way. It's just a question of whether it's a smart move or not in this case to follow "an eye for an eye" tactic at this point in time. Make no mistake about it though - Hezbollah is the source of TRUE evil here. They know exactly what they're doing and this propaganda stick with "israelis killing innocent lebanese" which people are so hastily adapting without prejudice is suiting them nicely. Lets not forget those that most Lebanese civilians die cause Hezbollah militants hide inside densely poopulated areas and thus literaly using civilians as a human shield. Classy indeed.