Oh well hey look the IDF pulled down some Bedouin tents, that's more newsworthy.More than 230 people have been killed every day in Syria since January 22http://www.thetower.org/human-rights-group-230-people-killed-syria-daily-since-peace-talks-began/, when international mediators brought President Bashar al-Assad’s government and its opponents together, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. That is more than in any other three weeks since the war began in 2011.
The United Nations says more than 130,000 Syrians have been killed in nearly three years of fighting. Totaling at least 4,959, the three-week death toll compiled by the Observatory included 515 women and children. The group estimated about a third of all the dead were civilians. “This is the highest average we have had,” said Rami Abdelrahman of the Observatory as the group urged a suspension of negotiations at Geneva if there was no immediate ceasefire.
Have you become unstuck in time? In THIS world, NOW, Lebanon is being filled with Syrian refugees.In this world, Israel filled Lebanon with refugees they ethnically cleansed from their homes and waiting for Israel to respect their right of return.
That's the source of the conflict.
The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has now passed one million, according to a recent government estimate. Many have nowhere to go, few possessions and are struggling to survive. In some villages, near the border, the refugees now outnumber the Lebanese residents.
Israel never ethnically cleansed anyone, though there were clearly roughly equal numbers of refugees from both sides of the conflict, with about 700k refugees on each side fleeing to the other.In this world, Israel filled Lebanon with refugees they ethnically cleansed from their homes and waiting for Israel to respect their right of return.
That's the source of the conflict.
Wow, you can't remember what you wrote from one post to the next, Rob:Really, any Lebanese is authorized by the state to go to war with Israel?
Yes, any Lebanese is entitle to defend any part of Lebanon from an attack.Is Hezbollah lawfully entitled to defend South Lebanon from Israeli attack?
Yes or no?
Let's see if your views are logically consistent.
So Hezbollah is authorized by the state and Hezbollah attacks on Israel are authorized by the Lebanese state.Wow, you can't remember what you wrote from one post to the next, Rob:
Yes, any Lebanese is entitle to defend any part of Lebanon from an attack.
It's hard to be taken seriously when you are unaware of basic history. Syria did not invade Lebanon in 1976 but were part if the Arab Deterrent Force:So when has Israel attacked Lebanon? Responding to massive terror attacks during the civil war? Responding to Hezbollah's 2006 attack across the border and their kidnapping of dead Israelis? Of course Syria invaded Lebanon in 1976 and stayed for 30 years but you never complain about that.
Any Lebanese is entitled to defend any part of Lebanon from an attack, Rob.So Hezbollah is authorized by the state and Hezbollah attacks on Israel are authorized by the Lebanese state.
Does that extend to offensive operations in Israel?Any Lebanese is entitled to defend any part of Lebanon from an attack, Rob.
Given my answer, your question makes no sense whatsoever, Rob. Very Rob Ford.Does that extend to offensive operations in Israel?
Let me answer then: Hezbollah attacked Israel, resulting in an Israeli defensive strike on Lebanon to stop the ongoing attacks on sovereign Israeli territory.Given my answer, your question makes no sense whatsoever, Rob. Very Rob Ford.
You've got your history wrong. Israel had been violating Lebanese sovereignty, Rob.Let me answer then: Hezbollah attacked Israel, resulting in an Israeli defensive strike on Lebanon to stop the ongoing attacks on sovereign Israeli territory.
The question is to what extent the State of Lebanon bears responsibility. Were they simply inadequate to the task of preventing Hezbollah attacks on Israel? Or were they complicit, authorizing those attacks?
Israel had been responding to ongoing attacks from Lebanese territory. Your double standard is pathetic. You think that the PLO and then Hezbollah should be allowed to repeatedly attack Israel from Lebanese territory but Israel should not be able to counter attack to stop them.You've got your history wrong. Israel had been violating Lebanese sovereignty, Rob.
That's always the Zionist script, isn't it? Victimhood. Unfortunately, the truth is otherwise. Israel has, and continues to, violate Lebanese sovereignty on a daily basis. It continues to occupy Lebanese territory. It has spread millions of cluster bombs across Lebanon.Israel had been responding to ongoing attacks from Lebanese territory. Your double standard is pathetic. You think that the PLO and then Hezbollah should be allowed to repeatedly attack Israel from Lebanese territory but Israel should not be able to counter attack to stop them.
All of which is in response to Lebanese attacks on Israel.That's always the Zionist script, isn't it? Victimhood. Unfortunately, the truth is otherwise. Israel has, and continues to, violate Lebanese sovereignty on a daily basis. It continues to occupy Lebanese territory. It has spread millions of cluster bombs across Lebanon.
If you want to play, you have to pay. Provide sources.All of which is in response to Lebanese attacks on Israel.
It is a fact that Lebanon declared war on Israel on 15 May 48, and invaded Israel. It is a fact that after that war Lebanon allowed the PLO to use its territory for attacks on Israel, precipitating the war in 82. It is a fact that Lebanon allowed Hezbollah to attack Israel from Lebanese territories resulting in the 2006 war.
Lebanon has always either been the aggressor directly, or permitted its territory to be used by an aggressor like the PLO or Hezbollah.
Israel has never started any war, but Israel does finish the ones others start.
Why don't I just take your tack and say I'm right unless you prove me wrong?If you want to play, you have to pay. Provide sources.
Well if we are going by the "you provide one and then I'll provide one" model then you have a backlog of several hundred so start making up the deficit now.Why don't I just take your tack and say I'm right unless you prove me wrong?
I will happily provide references when you agree that the person making the positive claim, like "Lebanon attacked Israel" or "there is a law of ancestral return", is the one who owes the reference.
I will provide this one, you provide that one. That's fair, otherwise you're just a hate troll.
I will go first once you agree the person making a positive claim owes the reference. We all know you don't have one anyway.Well if we are going by the "you provide one and then I'll provide one" model then you have a backlog of several hundred so start making up the deficit now.
But you won't, Rob. You are a windbag. But you are a windbag who admitted that the Palestinians were ethnically cleansed.
Who would have guessed you'd find a way not to substantiate your claims.I will go first once you agree the person making a positive claim owes the reference. We all know you don't have one anyway.
I can easily substantiate my claims, but you're a troll. You refused to substantiate YOUR claim that there was an international law of ancestral return. It's a load of bullshit and you played this dishonest game of insisting there was such a fictional thing unless I proved you wrong.Who would have guessed you'd find a way not to substantiate your claims.
