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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
This is pretty much what I do believe. Though calling Israel "ruthless" is somewhat laughable. The country is exercising about 5% of the destructive power that it has. You see any Palestinian factions exercising similar restraint? And the only reason that Syria is exercising that level of restraint is because, historically, things have not turned out so well when Arab states that have failed to exercise such restraint.
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Israel is exercising restraint because it has to. Nobody else even comes close in military capability. Syria and Jordan may have weapons, but they have no competent troops to know how to use them. When I refer to Israel as being ruthless, I am simply saying that it uses whatever froce is necessary to stop a threat in short order.
The terrorists use their tactics because they have nothing else. And they learned their tactics from men like Ariel Sharon and his predecessors, who used the same tactics against the British.
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...if you would actually read what I am writing rather than simply lumping it with your notion of what "pro-Israel people" are saying, you would have to admit that to yourself. Israel is clearly the only significant military power in the immediate region.
Now, ask yourself: If the balance of military power between Israel and Syria, or Israel and Hezbollah/Hamas/Islamic Jihad were reversed, what would happen? Would it be more or less violent than what we are seeing now? More or fewer dead civilians? Bombs on an empty airport runway, or missles launched into downtown Tel Aviv at rush hour?
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I am reading what you are saying. I am noting also what you are not saying. Israel has the means to attack with a heavy hand and it has most often done so. It is doing so now. However, it is also tearing down one of the few democracies in the region to get at the people who are undermining that democracy. By attacking Lebanon as a state, rether than surgically attacking Hezbollah, Israel is seeding the clouds for future conflict at thje expense of a natyion that may not be an ally, but is a fellow enemy of Syria and Iran.
