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To: Sam who wrote (238238)	7/30/2007 3:02:25 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

There was some sympathy for Israel after the kidnappings. It dissapated during the war. Israel can't keep sympathy so long as the world judges Israel harshly for civilian deaths that Hizbullah either causes or arranges, but Hizbullah not at all. As Hizbullah stage manages the media for staged "massacres" and the media plays along without a peep. The field is too rigged. Even if Israel had fought brilliantly, which it didn't, it still would have killed many "civilians" (every Hizbullah fighter becomes a civilian when dead, indistinguishable from real civilians), more than Hizbullah killed with their random shelling of Kfar Shmona and Haifa. Israel made huge attempts to hit the rocket launchers precisely, but they were being fired from alleys or living rooms; of course civilians died. As long as the Chrissys count moral superiority as a numbers game, without considering that Hizbullah keeps civilians under fire deliberately (Hizbullah fighters prevented civilian evacuation of many towns) while Israel provides shelters for Israeli civilians, Israel will not get sympathy. The only hope is a slow wearing away of the charade in the eyes of the public, a learned distrust of the media. It's happening, but it's slow. But it's certainly become obvious to the Lebanese and many others that Hizbullah is not Lebanese as it claimed; it is wholy owned by Iran.