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To: GST who wrote (196604)8/10/2006 2:38:15 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
I've already dealt with that idea in the last post. Killing 500 or 800 or whatever as part of collateral damage from attacks on Hezbollah and on strategic infrastructure, is plenty of "collective punishment".

Also when Israel does inflict actual collective punishment it tends to be things like blowing up the house of the family of a suicide/homicide bomber after the family has been forcibly evicted, not killing the family or some random Palestinian or Lebanese civilian.



To: GST who wrote (196604)8/10/2006 3:21:32 PM
From: Katelew  Respond to of 281500
 
Lebanon is also 'guilty' of being the only country in the Arab world to actually push them off the land. It may have been negotiated but I think Israel felt defeated in 2000.

I also suspect Israel doesn't really want a democratic state next door. They wouldn't be our 'only democratic ally' in the mideast. Such total destruction of the infrastructure in Lebanon didn't really surprise me.


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