Israel decides to go to Lebanon.

The side that I've taken on this conflict, as has sander?

right, thats why whenever someone is on israel's side you're attacking him?


Yeah, big surprise.

you see what we're all trying to do here, us pro-israeli's is really to:
have just further cheapened and hollowed out an important and dangerous concept by using it as a cheap way to attack people that happen to not agree with you.

here are some of the things i brought and you call them hollow:
Hey, all Lebanese people in South Beirout, you should all, like, flee whilst we're bombing the crap out of that part of town because, y'know, we're bombing the crap out of that part of town, in case you didn't notice. Have a flyer!"

15 minutes? flyers durning bombing-you prove it .

Though come to think of it, the funny thing is that in this conflict the Israelis were the first to hit civilians, not Hezbollah
.

and the hizbulla preperations and base establishments in south lebanon so they can bomb civilans in israel prior to the war, makes it more justified to thier side too right?

Hell, the media never promised you could stop thinking because they'll represent everything in a neutral, reliable way. That's impossible, and you know it.

yep, so does our communication between members of this forum.

The say their motives for this are anti-semitic in nature is yet another grand slap in the face of every jew who has suffered under anti-semitism in the history of the world.

there can never be enough neutralism to cover for it-you said it yourself its impossible to create perfect neutrality in the media, so this "neutrality" will always offend one side or the other.

thats why you can never understand my reality-and i can never understand yours.
 
aegis said:
right, thats why whenever someone is on israel's side you're trolling him?

Suffer would hardly need to reply to someone that is in favour of Israel in a more...shall we say...unfanatic way than you, since we'd simply be in agreement.

You seem to think that my personal being on Israel's side means I need to nod and smile whenever someone spouts a load of factually incorrect nonsense (Iranian insurgents? Always-present-15-minute-warnings? Bodies being placed? Entire muslims world rallying behind Hezbollah? Prove any one of these and I'll be surprised) and builds thin threads of bad arguments from these. Well be ready to be in for a shock, because I feel very little need or obligation to do so.

This is not a black-and-white issue here. Just because I favour Israel does not mean I think everyone on "my side" is right. And as I've pointed out before, I don't like seeing my side of the argument being defended by sloppy reasoning.

However, to the next point, that of "trolling". I took his message and replied (without resorting to lying or simply declaring myself the winner) to every argument he made, presenting a simple counterargument or pointing out the incorrectness of his facts. Whereas you pick your own things to reply from in every post, which is considered bad netiquette in a debate to say the least, and often don't bother to present arguments, rather mumbling about everyone being against you and you being Israeli and thus being right. Hell, you ignored my last post in this thread presenting counter-arguments about your misstatements (like the wall being on the border, when clearly it is not) simply to return to this thread now? Again, bad netiquette.

Hell, this last post of yours is, in fact, a troll. The fact that it is directed at me means that I can simply ignore it, as the person insulted is the person with the power to do something about it. Trolling users like that is against the rules, though.

Now, if you're going to feel the need to reply, spend your time proving one of the points made in this half-thread (Iranian insurgents? Always-present-15-minute-warnings? Bodies being placed? Entire muslims world rallying behind Hezbollah?) or present your own points *with* evidence. Let's try to actually debate rather than this drudgery, hmmm?
 
Before the infamos bombing of the residential complex, a member of the isreali militery contacted a hand full of the inhabitants, instructing them to leave the building. few, if any heeded said warning. aproxamatly 15 minutes later, a presision munition was dropped on the dwelling. This was said in defince of the bombing, the day of.

In the aftermath, Corpses were posed for the media. You might have deduced this, if you had seen the pictures shown on the Media.

Israel was after the rocket platform that was stationed in proximity of the building...

Hezbolla is using the Media against Isreal.

Iranian insergants, as in - Iraq. They seem to be praised by most. You.... Might have observed this, on the Media.
 
Let's try to actually debate rather than this drudgery, hmmm?

i will do my best-ignore my edit if you can:

which is considered bad netiquette in a debate to say the least,
netiquette or whatever that means, i gather you mean to the order and politness of the discussion?
lets see:
Hell, you ignored my last post in this thread presenting counter-
its hard not to ignore someone who says this when speaking to you:
If you were actually arguing in another way than with one-sentence pieces of arrogant propaganda, you'd find the treatment towards you to be much kinder

if everything that comes out of my keyboard sounds to you like that, there is really no reason to continue this, because everything i brought you so far you didnt buy, and obviously i cant bring you what i hear on our 3 TV networks, so i'm scraping from the internet, which from my point of view, which you dont agree, is very flooded with one sided stories. so its pretty hard to find any "proof" but i will come up with them maybe later, if and even.

you wanted to speak about the facts:

broder, i agree with you-we are not building it according to the UN plan, because no negotiations were engaged, so we take what we can-yeah, we're assholes, we dont want to negotiate. how can the UN say which part of the land is ours in which is the arabs? how can the arabs say it and how can we say it? the whole thing is just too rooted for anyone to really make a choice here-the only way is through negotiation-no way there too.

iranian insurgents-bullshit half-way, but its a fact to everyone that iran financed this hizbulla attack on israel including all thier bases for rockets and bunkers, i think it was 100 mil $.

Bodies being placed, it wouldn't suprise me, but i guess your morale belief in hizbullah is greater than mine.

Entire muslims world rallying behind Hezbollah-it isnt? where does the muslim world condemn hizbullah? you prove that its wrong.
entire is pretty broad i agree, but i think he meant the major countries, no need to get over punctual..

always presesnt 15-minutes warnings:i think its much more than that, otherwise its ridicolus, what can i say, i believe in the morality of my army, because i served in it, and i know how it operates, many things could be presented otherwise, and in some border cases i cannot justify certain actions. this, is definitly not one of them:
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200607/INT20060720d.html
 
Oh... Who could forget Our palestinian friends, Hamaas? (Idk what the correct english language translation). Iranian suicide bombers committing these atrocities on those in the west bank, on behalf of Hamaas. Those could be considered iranian insurgents operating in israel.
 
Stompie said:
Before the infamos bombing of the residential complex, a member of the isreali militery contacted a hand full of the inhabitants, instructing them to leave the building. few, if any heeded said warning. aproxamatly 15 minutes later, a presision munition was dropped on the dwelling. This was said in defince of the bombing, the day of.
And this is proof of 'in every case, a warning if given out 15 minutes beforehand' how, exactly? Because, you know, stating this is so doesn't make it proof. Sources, for instance, make it somewhat closer to proof.

But suppose that you're right. Then yes, the Israeli contacted some(note some) of the inhabitants of the building before the bombing. I don't see at all how this means that this is done with every bombing, nor do I see how it would then be their own fault if they got killed.

Stompie said:
In the aftermath, Corpses were posed for the media. You might have deduced this, if you had seen the pictures shown on the Media.
Okay, here's my counter-proof (is that even a word?): No they didn't.
See what I'm doing here? I'm making a statement and pretending it is proof of itself. Whoop-di-doo.

Stompie said:
Israel was after the rocket platform that was stationed in proximity of the building...
Which is relevant how, exactly?
Also, since they alerted those in the building, I suppose they knew there was at least a risk, if not a certainty, that they'd hit the building.
Stompie said:
Hezbolla is using the Media against Isreal.
Gee, you think? How surprising.
As is Israel, of course.

Stompie said:
Iranian insergants, as in - Iraq. They seem to be praised by most. You.... Might have observed this, on the Media.
Erm, what?
All I hear from 'Iranian insurgents' is that they kill people. (Although technically, I haven't heard much from Iranian insurgents at all, mostly just Iraqi insurgents).
I don't see exactly how that's praising them, at all.

Hell, I'm beginning to get increasingly annoyed at this ridiculous argument I've seen flung about several times in this thread. I haven't seen anyone, ever, say that a terrorist is the one to be sympathetic with if they kill someone, rather than the one they kill. Media outlets show that there's been yet another terrorist attack where people were killed. They then tend to mention something about rising tensions or some recent conflict in the region at most.
See, that's not praising terrorists at all. And I have no clue where you people get the idea that the media support terrorists. It's really mind-boggling.

Stompie said:
Oh... Who could forget Our palestinian friends, Hamaas? (Idk what the correct english language translation). Iranian suicide bombers committing these atrocities on those in the west bank, on behalf of Hamaas. Those could be considered iranian insurgents operating in israel.
Yes, because Hamas is Iranian...ehm....how, exactly?

aegis said:
netiquette or whatever that means, i gather you mean to the order and politness of the discussion?
lets see:
No, he means netiquette.
You see, it is considered bad netiquette to respond only to a few selected points you wish to respond, for the simple reason that that perverts the discussion.

aegis said:
if everything that comes out of my keyboard sounds to you like that, there is really no reason to continue this, because everything i brought you so far you didnt buy, and obviously i cant bring you what i hear on our 3 TV networks, so i'm scraping from the internet, which from my point of view, which you dont agree, is very flooded with one sided stories. so its pretty hard to find any "proof" but i will come up with them maybe later, if and even.
See, this is another bit of a really poor argument. 'Our minority media supports us and gives us information in favor of us, so your media must be wrong and one-sided!'
That's the kind of argument you're giving us. In fact, it's almost the only argument you've given us throughout this thread. Now, this argument may have been appropriate if we were indeed being spoon-fed by a very biased media. However, the likelihood of that being the case is ridiculously small considering the amount of news outlets and their very similar news-reports.
It is, on the other, much more likely that your media are biased. For one, because according to you, they don't seem to agree on anything with the rest of the media throughout the world. Secondly, because they are stationed in Israel. Israel is at war. Now, during wartime, national news-outlets have a very strong tendency to support their national views and their government.
Yet you insist on saying that our news-outlets are the biased ones and that they are wrong, not even considering the other possibility.

aegis said:
broder, i agree with you-we are not building it according to the UN plan, because no negotiations were engaged, so we take what we can-yeah, we're assholes, we dont want to negotiate. how can the UN say which part of the land is ours in which is the arabs? how can the arabs say it and how can we say it? the whole thing is just too rooted for anyone to really make a choice here-the only way is through negotiation-no way there too.
That's not the point.
Why are you not building according to more conventional and generally agreed upon (except by you) borders? It would have been a very small nuisance to not build them like this, and if I'm not mistaken, it would've cost you fewer materials as well.
Instead, you've gone to extra lengths to disturb the Palestinian life by building it in places where no-one can see a reason to build them.
aegis said:
iranian insurgents-bullshit half-way, but its a fact to everyone that iran financed this hizbulla attack on israel including all thier bases for rockets and bunkers, i think it was 100 mil $.
Source.
aegis said:
Bodies being placed, it wouldn't suprise me, but i guess your morale belief in hizbullah is greater than mine.
No, it's that he (and I with him) doesn't have any reason to believe it. It has nothing to do with belief in Hezbollah, but rather that this is a rather new claim with no proof from either of you to back it up.

aegis said:
Entire muslims world rallying behind Hezbollah-it isnt? where does the muslim world condemn hizbullah? you prove that its wrong.
entire is pretty broad i agree, but i think he meant the major countries, no need to get over punctual..
The major countries being Egypt, Afghanistan, Iraq, Indonesia and Iran. Only one of those actually supports Hezbollah, and that's Iran. That's nowhere near 'the muslim world', that's just Iran.

aegis said:
always presesnt 15-minutes warnings:i think its much more than that, otherwise its ridicolus, what can i say, i believe in the morality of my army, because i served in it, and i know how it operates, many things could be presented otherwise, and in some border cases i cannot justify certain actions. this, is definitly not one of them:
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200607/INT20060720d.html
Woohoo, someone finally gets it, a source!
 
aegis said:
you see what we're all trying to do here, us pro-israeli's is really to

Are you trying to put words in my mouth?

aegis said:
here are some of the things i brought and you call them hollow:

What? I never called that hollow, I called overusage of the term anti-semetic hollow. I'm sorry but I don't understand you.

aegis said:
15 minutes? flyers durning bombing-you prove it

"During" is a relative term. "During" means anywhere since the conflict started. Are you claiming you stopped dropping flyers once the bombing started? An odd claim.

aegis said:
and the hizbulla preperations and base establishments in south lebanon so they can bomb civilans in israel prior to the war, makes it more justified to thier side too right?

Irrelevant. Preparation is not the same as the act, intent not the same as result. Are you saying attempted murder is the same as murder?

aegis said:
yep, so does our communication between members of this forum.

What? Dude, please try to make sense.

aegis said:
there can never be enough neutralism to cover for it-you said it yourself its impossible to create perfect neutrality in the media, so this "neutrality" will always offend one side or the other.

thats why you can never understand my reality-and i can never understand yours.

The first point is irrelevant to the second.

The lack of neutrality in the media just means you have to think for yourself. It does not preclude all mutual understanding.

i will do my best-ignore my edit if you can:

Your edit was 8 minutes after my post, when I was already offline. Do not accuse me of things I can not help

its hard not to ignore someone who says this when speaking to you:

Why? I asked you to reconsider and change your mode of discussion because your current mode is not a valid mode of discussion by any standard. That's not unreasonable.

so its pretty hard to find any "proof" but i will come up with them maybe later, if and even.

Consider this simple argument; if it is impossible to find proof for your point, your point might simply be invalid.

broder, i agree with you-we are not building it according to the UN plan, because no negotiations were engaged, so we take what we can-yeah, we're assholes, we dont want to negotiate. how can the UN say which part of the land is ours in which is the arabs? how can the arabs say it and how can we say it? the whole thing is just too rooted for anyone to really make a choice here-the only way is through negotiation-no way there too.

Not denying this, though I'm a bit puzzled about your land-claims. Are you talking about the wall or the Lebanon strikes now? If about Lebanon; none of that land is yours. If about the wall; those borders have been accepted by everyone, including Israel.

How can the UN say which part of the land is yours and which "the arabs'"? Because they're the UN. That's what they do, it's their whole raison d'etre.

"Negotiations", however, by definition means you have a valid, unified party on the other side that is willing and capable to negotiate. This has never been the case in the Israel-Palestine conflict. Negotiating with Hamas just means getting stabbed in the back. Only a fool denies this.

aegis said:
iranian insurgents-bullshit half-way, but its a fact to everyone that iran financed this hizbulla attack on israel including all thier bases for rockets and bunkers, i think it was 100 mil $.

I'm well-aware that Iran finances Hezbollah. You'll have to prove the 100 million dollars, though.

aegis said:
Entire muslims world rallying behind Hezbollah-it isnt? where does the muslim world condemn hizbullah? you prove that its wrong.

Heh, ok, the funny thing is my point is really easy to prove. I wish I could link to the NY Times, but I can't, but here's the JPPost "Arab world few up with Hizbullah. Need more? It's a cinch to dig up.

always presesnt 15-minutes warnings:i think its much more than that, otherwise its ridicolus, what can i say, i believe in the morality of my army, because i served in it, and i know how it operates, many things could be presented otherwise, and in some border cases i cannot justify certain actions. this, is definitly not one of them:
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200607/INT20060720d.html


Now that's more reasonable, so I will respond more reasonably;

Israel's attempts to save civilian lives are fairly noble and unprecedented. I applaud it.

But it *is* limited. The warnings are not always present, they're sometimes false.

And they're often useless. The flyers being dropped saying "get out of the area" are meaningless.

Why? Let me compare it to WW II; everyone in London knew they were under constant threat to be bombed by the nazis, in all of London. What did this mean? Should they all get out of London like Israel claims all Lebanese civilians should go out of Souther Beirout? Seriously, is that reasonable? Can that be called a valid attempt to save human lives?

Also, let's not forget a very important and simply fact; that death of civilians is ALWAYS the responsibility of the persons killing them. Hezbollah using them as human shields only mean Hezbollah shares this responsibility, it does not waive Israel's responsibility in any way. Fair?

stompie said:
Oh... Who could forget Our palestinian friends, Hamaas? (Idk what the correct english language translation). Iranian suicide bombers committing these atrocities on those in the west bank, on behalf of Hamaas. Those could be considered iranian insurgents operating in israel.

Link or stfu.

stompie said:
In the aftermath, Corpses were posed for the media. You might have deduced this, if you had seen the pictures shown on the Media.

Wow wow wow, suffer thinks you should back up there, stompie.

Your initial claim was that bodies were *placed* by Hezbollah.

Placed and posed are two COMPLETELY different things. One indicidates that Hezbollah dug up bodies from elsewhere and placed them in the ruined buildings, the other indicates Hezbollah waved the dead bodies around for the media to see. They are *completely* different things. The former I called bullshit on, the latter I'm well familiar with, though it's partially simply related to the ME tendancy towards dramatic burials and not just Hezbollah-propaganda.

Don't try to jump to another subject when suffer calls bullshit like that, stompie. Your "placed" claim is still bullshit unless you prove it.

stompie said:
Israel was after the rocket platform that was stationed in proximity of the building...

Good thing too, it'd suck if they were after the civilians. Did anyone ever claim otherwise, though? Nope.

stompie said:
Hezbolla is using the Media against Isreal.

As is Israel against Hezbollah. Since when is media manipulation a capital offense?

stompie said:
Iranian insergants, as in - Iraq. They seem to be praised by most. You.... Might have observed this, on the Media.

PRAISED?! Not even bloody Al-Jazeera outright praises terrorists. Show me one instance of mainstream Western media actually *praising* a suicide bombing hitting civilians and I will declare you the king of internet.
 
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7978

There would be something that could be consitered supporting evidence, for speculation, involving iranian suicide bombers, operating (or with the intention to operate) within israel.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3118456,00.html

Iran "Suicide Column" article.

http://www.ezinearticles.com/?Iranian-Insurgents-in-Iraq-Planting-Roadside-Bombs&id=229353

As for hezbollah posing corpses- Thats speculation. Though what I herd about the warning, was said on defince of militery actions, by isreali brass, on Fox news. I will try to find a corasponding article.
 
Actually, I initially thought you were referring to insurgents *in* Iran, hence my "1980's" remark. Insurgents from other countries operating in Iraq or Palestine is nothing new, and there's no need to doubt they include Iranians.

And again, you say posing now. You said placing first. It's safe to say you take back your original statement as bullshit?

Also, you "forgot" to respond to most of what me and Sander said, including finding proof of people praising terrorism.
 
aegis said:
...
That movie depicts opinions as facts and again, and still does not cite any sources. Besides that, it fails to adress several points brought up by us that still require proof.


aegis said:
dont worry, i will relate to everything you talked about from now on-since there is nothing to hide on my behlaf.
Wait, so there was something to hide originally?
 
That flick is full of bullshit.

Most Hezbollah-missiles can not hit "most major Israeli cities", they can hardly reach Israel itself, let alone aim, let alone go for any city further than 40 clicks from the border.

The "thousands of missiles fired by Hezbollah into Israel"-fact is funny, since Israel has so far fired a LOT MORE than the Hezbollah terrorists. Not to mention they say Israel has "every right to defend itself against such actions", failing to mention the fact that Israel was the one that started shooting.

But nice propaganda anyway. Too bad any thinking person can puncture it.
 
That movie depicts opinions as facts and again, and still does not cite any sources.

of course, every article i bring to you is "opinion" and every thing you bring is "proof", because everything i bring is propaganda.
i gather pictures and numbers are considered facts only when they are on your side.

Most Hezbollah-missiles can not hit "most major Israeli cities", they can hardly reach Israel itself, let alone aim, let alone go for any city further than 40 clicks from the border.

ok thats it.
i was in haifa when 10 people were killed there yesterday by you poor aiming 3000 rockets hizbullah you so much protect. whats the point talking to you, haifa isnt a major city? kiryat shmona is a major city also, not to mention they hit hadera which is also major city which is further into israel than haifa.

and to think that i wasnt explaining myself properly..you just want to see your side just like the rest of the world no matter what the FACTS are, which is even worse than the rest of the world.
 
aegis said:
i was in haifa when 10 people were killed there yesterday by you poor aiming 3000 rockets hizbullah you so much protect.

10 people were killed by 3000 rockets? Learn to speak English, man.

Right now, civilian deaths on the Lebanese side go between 509 and 828, 2145-3000 wounded, a million displaced, as opposed to Israel's 38 dead, 1300+ wounded and 300 thousand displaced.

Hell, right now the civilian-military casualties rate between the two is 15 dead Lebanese civilians to every dead Lebanese soldier or 10 dead Lebanese civilians to every dead Hezbollah warrior (Hezbollah claims) or about 1.2 civilian deats to every Hezbollah death (Israeli claims). Compare to the Israeli numbers: 1.5 military deaths to 1 civilian death.

In other words, Lebanon is losing more civilians than soldiers/Hezbollah warriors, Israel is losing more soldiers than civilians.

You're not going to win out morally in a numbers war here. Israel is not just losing less people absolutely, they also have a higher military casualty rate ("pure war") than the civilian casualty rate ("terrorism"). Hell, if one was to pull those numbers, you'd think Israel was the terrorist, not Hezbollah.

aegis said:
whats the point talking to you, haifa isnt a major city? kiryat shmona is a major city also, not to mention they hit hadera which is also major city which is further into israel than haifa.

No, haifa, hadera and kiryat shmona are not "most major cities". Note the key word: MOST.

aegis said:
and to think that i wasnt explaining myself properly..you just want to see your side just like the rest of the world no matter what the FACTS are, which is even worse than the rest of the world.

Yes, I'm sure I am and you're not. You don't self-reflect much, do you?

aegis said:
of course, every article i bring to you is "opinion" and every thing you bring is "proof", because everything i bring is propaganda.
i gather pictures and numbers are considered facts only when they are on your side.

Neither suffer nor Sander has posted movies that just state a lot of things and mark them with big "fact" bars. Such movies should never be taken seriously, no matter who they support.

All our statements so far can be backed up by multiple sources from reliable news agencies. If you call for proof, we can easily provide it and so far we have. If we call for proof, you post articles on different subject or childish internet propaganda.
 
facts:
israel did NOT attack lebanon, she left it in 2000.
israel IS giving warnings to BOTH civilians and hizbullah to clear areas where they are going to bomb.
hizbullah IS firing rockets from populated civilians areas.
hizbullah fired about 3000 rockets and has much more on north israel, including major cities.
hizbullah is financed by iran and syria, which helped him build the basis for THIS operation.

lets argue about those ok?
 
to pick just one:

aegis said:
israel IS giving warnings to BOTH civilians and hizbullah to clear areas where they are going to bomb.
throwing a load of pamflets over a city telling people to get the fuck out or deal with the consequences is hardly useful...

what if 'hizbullah' handed out pamflets in the jewish neighborhoods of haifa. would you just leave if you lived there, aegis?

what if you die after staying? would it be YOUR fault for dying by a 'hizbullah' bomb or would it be hizbullah's fault?
 
aegis said:
israel did NOT attack lebanon, she left it in 2000.

I can't seem to connect the two statements in this sentence.

aegis said:
israel IS giving warnings to BOTH civilians and hizbullah to clear areas where they are going to bomb.

Why do they warn Hizbollah to get out of there? Do they really just hate the buildings?
 
aegis said:
israel did NOT attack lebanon, she left it in 2000.

And since then the war started again. Riddle me this, papadopoulaki, who started the bombing again?

aegis said:
israel IS giving warnings to BOTH civilians and hizbullah to clear areas where they are going to bomb.

We've been over this before. "Leave this entire area or prepare to be bombed" is slightly noble but not really helpful.

Also, most importantly, it does not remove Israel's responsibility. Not in any way.

aegis said:
hizbullah IS firing rockets from populated civilians areas.

So? Again, what does that mean? I'll tell you, it means Hezbollah shares responsibility for civilian deaths with Israel. It does not mean all responsibility goes from Israel to Hezbollah. They're not killing their own civilians, you are.

aegis said:
hizbullah fired about 3000 rockets and has much more on north israel, including major cities.

Including but not "most" major cities.

It has launched about 3000 and has about 13000, Israeli actions nonwithstanding. how many has Israel launched? How many does Israel have? What is the point of this numerical comparison?

aegis said:
hizbullah is financed by iran and syria, which helped him build the basis for THIS operation.

Duh. Never contested, never mentioned. Why do you bring this up? It is irrelevant.

aegis said:
lets argue about those ok?

No, not ok. You dodge yet another point by bringing up arguments on another subject. Why don't YOU address the fact that Israel has more military casualties than civilans while Lebanon is vice versa?
 
Aegis, even if Israel is warning the Lebanese to leave the city, there is one major problem. Israel has bombed the highways LEAVING the city, thereby making it a bit difficult to get out, even if you would like to escape. It's about as useful as tying someone to a pole and then warning them that you're going to be shooting at the pole in a few minutes. Just because you KNOW you're going to die, doesn't mean you can do anything about it.

EDIT: Watching CNN tonight, I heard, though can't quote as it was on TV, that Israel dropped pamphlets today announcing they were going to drop bombings on a Lebanon city. However, any cars, or donkey carts leaving the city would be attacked, people are only allowed to walk. Seems to make it difficult to flee :-\.
 
PhredBean said:
Pajari said:
Isreal has a hell of alot of troops, but not enough to deal with 2-4 muslim nations. Isreal would do a lot of damage in such a war, but they'd get mobbed down eventually.

I know this is an old post.The above scenario happened in 48 when they had neither the manpower or firepower of recent history..guess what happened?The armies of Jordan,Iraq,Egypt,Saudi Arabia..lost.

Their armies lack small unit leadership and initiative,which are critical on a modern battlefield.As instruments of the state to quell,or keep quiet internal unrest,Arab state armies serve their purpose.They are incapable,and too inflexible,for fighting modern warfare.
 
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