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To: Lane3 who wrote (25772)	8/2/2006 10:14:22 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542043

It's not by definition, mine or anybody else's but rather a fact. Who is firing rockets? Is Lebanon firing any rockets? No. Hezbollah and Israel are firing rockets, therefore, they are the principals. If you want the firing of rockets with its ensuing bleeding to stop via negotiations, which was your original premise,... Most of the people being hurt are not Hezbollah. It may have started with Hezbollah firing rockets, but the International Institute for Strategic Studies estimates Hezbollah forces to be 600-1000 active fighters. The numbers of people now being hurt are in the hundreds of thousands (refugees, dead, and wounded) who have nothing to do with Hezbollah. Were the assassins of Archduke Franz Ferdinand the principals in WW1? Were they at signing of the armistices ending WW1? I understand Israeli anger at Hezbollah, but in order to stop the bleeding we have to negotiate with Israel and to a lesser extent the legitimate government of Lebanon. Israel is causing most of the bleeding. We have to ensure the safety of Israel. I don't disagree with that , but Israeli activity is not helping matters. I agree, Israel is one of the principal actors in all this, but Hezbollah is not. That is the problem that you and your authority figures do not understand. Israel is taking out their anger against most people that have nothing to do with Hezbollah. Some of those people may have had sympathy for Hezbollah, but they had nothing to do with Hezbollah. You and your authority figures do not understand the problem. We do live on different planets. Your planet is not the one that I would like to live on. Negotiating with Hezbollah would be like Mexico negotiating with the Minutemen to end immigration concerns in the United States.