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Israel to Her People: We Will Not Abandon You

Comment comment by LordDilly on 14 July 2006

Israel is sending a loud and clear clarion call-- not just to her enemies, but to her citizens and especially her military: "We will never allow our military, who daily put their lives on the line for the freedom and safety of our people, to be used as pawns or bargaining chips. We will never trade the life of one of our brave warriors for political expediency- no matter the cost." Israel is telling the world that she will never let one of her soldiers hang out to dry.

A question I have to ask: did Hezbollah view Israel's withdrawal from Gaza not as a concession and an overture for peace, but as a weakness to be exploited? Could that be what precipitated their kidnapping of Israeli soldiers- figuring they could now make Israel dance like a trained monkey? If so, they frakked up. Big Time.

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RE: Israel to Her People: We Will Not Abandon You by enigma :: NR0

Israel is sending a loud and clear clarion call-- not just to her enemies, but to her citizens and especially her military: "We will never allow our military, who daily put their lives on the line for the freedom and safety of our people, to be used as pawns or bargaining chips. We will never trade the life of one of our brave warriors for political expediency- no matter the cost." Israel is telling the world that she will never let one of her soldiers hang out to dry.

I agree with you that this is important... but so are the means that you go about getting back the soldiers. Israel must realize that it's tactics will further escalate blood shed of civilians. Targeting civilians (by both sides) makes you a terrorist and should not be tolerated. Civilian targets (like the only generator in Gaza) will be seen as acts of unjust aggression by the other sides and possibly the global community. So will kidnapping or detaining civilians that don't appear to be militants.

Let us also not forget that both sides of this have past faults that are in play here. There are legitimate claims that Israel may be holding terror suspects unjustly. Innocents may be incarcerated. In some ways it resembles this countries own problems with terror suspects. If the US is guilty of holding innocents then Israel may be too.

I am not condoning Militant actions, but commenting on the subsequent use of force and what ends it may bring.

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