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Flankerl

Flankerl

Well-Known Member
Is Hezbollah really so stupid to pick a fight while they are busy in Syria?

Wait... forget what I wrote...
 
Seeker of the Ancients

Seeker of the Ancients

Nightingale
I just wish we could get the leaders of both Israel and Palestine (not the leaders of Hezbollah, of course) to come to the peace table and work out a solution. It's the average citizens of both groups who suffer most from this conflict.

Seriously, life is hard enough without stubborn Israeli leaders and the clowns in Hezbollah waging war on each other...
 
Flankerl

Flankerl

Well-Known Member
A leading Hezbollah Commander(actually the one who was supposedly responsible for intrusions into Israel) and his Iranian General Overlord in plain sight just on the other side of the border?

Shooting as them is about as rational as it gets.
 
C

columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
I'm confused. From an Israeli strategic perspective, when is there going to be a better time to take on Iran and Hezbollah?
Tom
 
Jayhawker Soule

Jayhawker Soule

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Premium Member
January 28, 2015 | New York, NY

Partners for Progressive Israel commend Zahava Gal-On, Meretz party leader, for her statement calling upon Prime Minister Netanyahu to act responsibly to de-escalate the current crisis with Hezbollah on Israel's northern frontier with Lebanon. In view of the current controversy over Israeli actions during the Gaza war, the Prime Minister's threat to carry out retribution on the scale of the Gaza war is particularly reckless and irresponsible.

We join her in extending our condolences to the families of the soldiers, Major Yochai Kalangel and Staff Sergeant Dor Nini, killed by a Hezbollah anti-tank missile, and we also mourn the death of a Spanish UN peacekeeping soldier in consequent Israeli retaliatory shelling. At the same time we note that Hezbollah's attack is in response to an ill-considered Israeli assault in Syria on January 18 that killed five of Hezbollah's militants and an Iranian general with them on the ground.

This tit-for-tat policy toward Hezbollah is the same policy Netanyahu applied to Hamas that led to the war last summer. Today Prime Minister Netanyahu guarantees that those responsible for the latest attack will pay a heavy price. In fact, his guarantees only serve to stir up national furor aimed not at helping Israel heal from loss, but in exacting revenge. This is cynicism, not leadership.

Mr. Netanyahu's latest threats are not the first example of such irresponsible behavior in recent weeks. The Israeli Prime Minister has further endangered Israel's standing with its most important ally, the United States, by crudely interposing himself into American partisan politics and accepting an ill-considered invitation to address Congress issued by the Republican Speaker of the House without the involvement or even notification of the White House. Responsible politicians in Israel, whatever their party, need to join in restraining a Prime Minister who, in his efforts to insure his own re-election, plays fast and loose with his nation's interests.

A war at this point is in the interest of none of the parties. We call on all parties to exercise maximum restraint and to recognize that, in such a heavily armed context, over-reaching can lead to a full scale and pointless conflict, as has happened many times before.
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^ This.
 
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