--- In [email protected], "peterklutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "larry.potter"
> <larry.potter@> wrote:
> >
> > From: <MDixon6569@> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 1/10/07 12:02:41 P.M. Central Standard
Time,
> > > jflanegi@ writes:
> > >
> > > Take a chill pill. I sincerely doubt Iran would ever invade
or
> > > attack Israel. The rhetoric from their prez is spun to make
it
> > seem
> > > that way, but it ain't gonna happen. As usual, the US is
scaring
> > the
> > > crap out of some country, and when the country reacts, we
say "Oh
> > > they are getting ready for an attack!". The only two
countries in
> > > the last ten years to invade other countries are the US and
> > Israel.
> > >
> >
> > >>
> > > Yeah, I'll take a chill pill but you need a reality check.
> > Hezzbola and
> > > Hamas picked a fight with Israel this past summer who were
> > supported directly by
> > > Iran probably for the purpose of getting Iran and their
nuclear
> > program off
> > > the front pages while the E 8 met in Moscow. No, Iran isn't
going
> > to invade
> > > Israel, not with an American army in between them and not when
> > they have their
> > > proxy Hezzbola to do it for them.
> > >>
> >
> >
> > Jim also "forgets" that the recent Israel-Lebanon war occurred
after
> > Lebanon via Hezbollah invaded Israel and started a war cycle.
> >
> > "The conflict began when Hezbollah fired Katyusha rockets and
> > mortars at Israeli military positions and border villages,
diverting
> > attention from another Hezbollah unit that crossed the border
and
> > abducted two Israeli soldiers and killed three others.[1]
Israeli
> > troops attempted to rescue the abducted soldiers but were
> > unsuccessful.
> > ..
> >
> > On 11 August 2006, the United Nations Security Council
unanimously
> > approved UN Resolution 1701 in an effort to end the hostilities.
The
> > resolution, which was approved by both Lebanese and Israeli
> > governments the following days, called for disarmament of
Hezbollah,
> > for withdrawal of Israel from Lebanon... " (wikipedia.org)
> >
> > Israel kept it's part of the 1701 resolution, while Hezbollah
> > didn't, in fact every day under the eye of the UN, Hezbollah is
> > getting weapons mainly from Iran and Syria.
> >
>
> Absolutely, though I think more approriate would be to say that the
> Israeli defense kicked into action AFTER Iran via Hezbollah - with
the
> government and people of Lebanon as hostages - embarked on
> indiscriminate killing by shooting rockets into Israel.
>
I draw my conclusions partly from the numbers of dead. Israel though
they have a much better PR engine kills ten to one hundred times
more enemies than their enemies do of them, yet they always position
themselves as the victims.
