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Originally Posted by Rudey
It's pretty clear that Lebanon started a war with Israel.
They hit Israel.
Israel hit back.
So let's not pretend that the Lebanese government had nothing to do with starting or continuing a war with Israel or pretend that its dissolution would change anything.
-Rudey
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No... it's pretty clear that Hezbollah started this particular conflict.
Hezbollah attacks and kills Israeli soldiers, and kidnaps 2.
Israel retaliates against Lebanon as a whole.
Unlike you I'm more than capable of looking beyond the simplistic black and white, and see that the Lebanese government wouldn't have been involved - simply because it would further risk their already tenuous position, it would further risk giving Hezbollah more public/political power, and finally because the government subsits from grafts on the newly booming tourist business I can't see them willing to risk that lucrative skimming.
Now as for the Israeli demands... well they are pretty f*cking ludicrous right now - demanding that Lebanon disarm Hezbollah... how they hell is the Lebanese government and military supposed to disarm them in the middle of a warzone? Face it the hawks were looking for an excuse to flex some military muscle and they leaped on this as an excuse to bombard Lebanon once again...
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