Israel shows no sign of backing off their offensives in Gaza and southern Lebanon.
Sissy Willis has a good post describing the first-rate SNAFU's instigated by the nascent UN when it created the Israel and West Bank partitions in 1947-1948. Israel was forced to fight for its survival in 1948. Can things work differently now, or are they just as hopeless as they were sixty years ago?
From my bookmark files, here is an insightful document linking Hamas and Yassir Arafat's PLO.
Israel is currently trying to root out Hezbollah terrorists who are operating out of southern Lebanon. Hezbollah was created in 1982 in response to the previous Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon. Hezbollah's goal is to destroy the nation of Israel and replace it with a fundamentalist Islamic state. Hezbollah operates as a political party in Lebanon and receives support from Syria and Iran. Michelle Malkin notes that there are perhaps thousands of Hezbollah operatives in the US right now, awaiting their cue to strike. The FBI is looking into the situation.
And about that support from Iran ... Hezbollah launched an Iranian-made C-802 cruise missile and struck an Israeli naval vessel. Does the thought of organizations like Hezbollah possessing advanced weapons like cruise missiles make you a little more nervous?
Israel has already insinuated that an attack on Israel that can be traced directly back to Syrian or Iranian operatives will be considered an act of war by those nations against Israel.
So far, 86% of Israelis support the war.
For an interesting explanation of the now infamous photo of Israeli children writing "messages" on artillery shells (visible at the above MSNBC link) you should read this:
It seems the parents, and not the photographers, were encouraging the children to draw flags and doodles on the shells, not messages, which were written by the parents. But ... the presence of twelve photographers all eager to take shots, no doubt contributed significantly to the fact that it happened.
Perhaps the reason that more liberals have not spoken out against Israel is that they would be agreeing with Pat Buchannan. Pat is always provocative, and this article is no less so. If you are a Christian, you should read it an then ask yourself, if Jesus Christ was committed to peace, how should Christians respond to what many consider an excessive use of force by Israel?
And just for the record, here is how Christians should NOT respond to Israel's military offensive against Hamas and Hezbollah. My apologies to the author of this post, but you are way off the mark.
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