The Arabs are hardly pipsqueaks, they seriously outnumber and outgun Israel. In 67, it was at least 3 to 1.
Now, it's true that they have discovered a more successful strategy than fighting army to army, which Arabs stink at.
They are going to use Israel's Achilles heel, its sense of morality, against it. They are going to willingly use their own civilians as body armor, set their rocket launchers on top of schools and shelters, and whine like crazy when Israel kills any civilians. They themselves, of course, will rejoice greatly at the death of Israeli civilians, who are their direct target, while calling the Israelis war criminals for killing civilians they can't avoid killing if they are to fight at all.
The word hypocritical and cynical doesn't begin to describe this policy. Has there ever before been a strategy that counted on the fact that your enemy cared more about your children than you do?
And it seems to work. World opinion blames only the Israelis, never Hizbullah. Like Sarman said, Hizbullah isn't a democracy, so he will never call them war criminals, only Israel. This double standard raises patronising to novel levels. At least in the old days, the colonialists thought the wogs were capable of improvement.
So I hope you understand what sort of outcome you are really helping along. As Israel feels more and more that its life is really threatened, the restraint will be less and less. But it's not like Nasrallah gives a damn what happens to Lebanon, so he won't mind. |
