Since the US started supporting Israel with defensive technology, there was no war, but Israel maintained itself against collective Arab aggression way before the alliance with the US.

“Israel constantly invades Lebanese air space.” – reliable source? I never heard even a Lebanese claim of such.

“Israel kidnapped … 2 Palestinian civilians on June 24 2006″ – reliable source?

“In fact no one said anything about this major crime under international law.” – Its hard to ’say anything’ about things that never happened…

“Israel did intentionally target civilians” – which is why the civilian casualty rate in this war is the lowest in modern history?

“It is quite clear that Israel meant to make Lebanon pay such a high price that the state would move against Hizbullah.” – hardly plausible. The Syrian/Iranian proxy army of Hizbullah is several leagues above the Lebanese army. Even if Lebanon wanted to recapture their country and would be willing to take the expected casualties, they would not be able to.

Israel is far more a proxy of the US, than Hizbullah is of Iran. Hizbullah could survive through local revenues, but Israel would be unlikely to maintain itself in the region without the $3 bil from the US each year.

Hizbullah and Israel have been at war for decades. Hizbullah has been attempting to capture Israeli soldiers for years, and Israel constantly invades Lebanese air space. Israel was simply looking for a pretext to destroy Hizbullah. It was not simply a response to the capture of soldiers.

Israel kidnapped (you ‘kidnap’ civilians and ‘capture’ soldiers) 2 Palestinian civilians on June 24 2006, but no one said that would justify Palestinians destroying half of Israel. In fact no one said anything about this major crime under international law.

Israel did intentionally target civilians. It is quite clear that Israel meant to make Lebanon pay such a high price that the state would move against Hizbullah. Obviously this tactic failed miserably.

You get the idea of my argument.

cheers, Executer.

Hizb’allah, a sophisticated and amoral group (using civilians as shields), with it’s new weapons, doesn’t seem like the only improvised hope of miserable conquered people – it’s a high-tech army, posing a danger to it’s own country’s goverment and stability, not held by it’s authority. the lebanese themselves want freedom from Syria – this means freedom from Hizb’allah’s mafia reign as well.

we have another proof that the Hizb’allah are but a hand of Syrian and Irani meddling in Lebanon, as was already stated in this page and many other places. they are not, and weren’t, the lebanese organization to free south lebanon from Israel occupation – they are set there to provoke fighting on the border. Israel have been out of Lebanon for 6 years, and they have no business there since.

we, the people of the middle east, all of us, have to think about the future: do we want to prosper, or be drawn into dark ages, led by fundementalists and power-crazed nuclear-weapon lovers. we have to think fast, because soon we won’t have the choise.