The Middle East spirals out of control!

Hell, I could see this going into WWIII. Everyone's totally on edge. But really, what should Isreal have done when their troops were captured? Negotiated? The way I see it is, if they do that, then they're just going to keep on kidnapping people.
Why are those palestinians in the jails anyways?

Edit: I just remembered this point I heard:
Is it that Lebannon doesn't want to disarm Hezbolah (sorry for my spelling) or is it that they aren't able to?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Hey dudes,

Quote:

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Con...2154&t=TS_Home
Israel offers ceasefire terms
Earlier, troops raid inside Lebanon
Jul. 17, 2006. 12:14 PM
MATT MOORE
ASSOCIATED PRESS


JERUSALEM — Israel would agree to a ceasefire in its six-day-old offensive against Lebanon if Hezbollah guerrillas agreed to withdraw from border area and release two captured Israeli soldiers, a senior official said Monday.
The official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had conveyed Israel’s position to Italy’s prime minister, who is attempting to broker a ceasefire deal.

Israel had previously demanded the full dismantling of Hezbollah as a condition for ending hostilities.

However, the senior official said Israel would agree to Hezbollah merely leaving the border area — with the Lebanese army taking its place.

Earlier today, Israeli ground troops entered southern Lebanon to attack Hezbollah bases on the border, but they rapidly returned to Israel after conducting their military operations, officials said.

Israel’s six-day-old offensive against Hezbollah following the capture of two Israeli soldiers has been primarily an aerial campaign, but government spokesman, Asaf Shariv, said the Israeli army chief of staff confirmed that ground troops had gone into Lebanon, if only briefly.
A military official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information, said that a small group of Israeli troops had crossed into Lebanon overnight to attack a Hezbollah position, but then returned to Israel.

“There was a small operation in a very limited area overnight,” the official said. “That is over.’’

Israel has been reluctant to send ground troops into southern Lebanon, an area that officials say has been heavily mined by Hezbollah and could lead to many Israeli casualties.

Israel would also want to quickly withdraw from the area, rather than get involved in a prolonged conflict like its 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon that ended in May 2000. The bloody nature of the fighting at the that time and the high number of casualties finally forced the government to cave into public pressure to withdraw from southern Lebanon and end the contentious occupation.

Hopefully this may cool things down, but I can also see this being outright rejected.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Hell, if we consider Isreal a terrorist state, then any nation in a war is one as well. The fact is that the Isreali soldiers are clearly marked that they are soliders, they aren't plainclothed so that they get an advantage.

Honestly it's all about perspective. Like what people said before, "Your freedom fighters are our terrorists." Maybe I haven't heard both sides of the arguement, but I can't see the reason why Palestine or Hezobolah can't recognize Isreal as a nation. Yes, it was made from land given by the British Government, but at that time, it was their land to give. Really, please, someone tell me why Isreal shouldn't exist.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

On a side topic of this issue, yesterday I was watching ch news late at night and they were having a debate about the evacuation of Canadian citizens. Currently, the Canadian government states that they will evacuate all Canadian citizens and their family members. What some people on the debate were getting at is there Canadian citizens that are permantent residents of Lebannon and they aren't paying taxes or contributing to Canada. Should the government offer the same services of extracting as the tourists in Lebannon?
Issues were like that some permanent residents were getting out sooner than the tourists and being that the extraction prcoess for Canadian's is progressing really slowly and hecticly, who gets out first is a major issue.

I personally feel that all Canadians should be extradited, the government should send out their naval ships to help (theres 2 that are being prepped but they said they aren't being sent out yet). After Canadian citizen's have been extracted, the government should help lebanese civilians escape as well. Yes, Canadian tax payers are paying for it, but if we can help, we should do so.

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