re was go hezbollah in apr ncsu edu hernlem chess ncsu edu brad hernlem wrote in article bce news service uci edu tclock orion oac uci edu tim clock writes in article apr yuma acns colostate edu bh lance colostate edu writes it is not a terrorist camp as you and the israelis like to view the villages they are small communities with kids playing soccer in the streets women preparing lunch men playing cards etc some young men usually aged between to years are members of the lebanese resistance even the inhabitants of the village do not know who these are they are secretive about it but most people often suspect who they are and what they are up to these young men are supported financially by iran most of the time they sneak arms and ammunitions into the occupied zone where they set up booby traps for israeli patrols every time an israeli soldier is killed or injured by these traps israel retalliates by indiscriminately bombing villages of their own choosing often killing only innocent civilians this a tried and true method utilized by guerilla and terrorists groups to conduct operations in the midst of the local populace thus forcing the opposing state to possible harm innocent civilians in their search or in order to avoid the deaths of civilians abandon the search certainly the people who use the population for cover are also to blaim for dragging the innocent civilians into harm s way are you suggesting that when guerillas use the population for cover israel should totally back down so the easiest way to get away with attacking another is to use an innocent as a shield and hope that the other respects innocent lives tell me tim what are these guerillas doing wrong assuming that they are using civilians for cover are they not killing soldiers in their country if the buffer zone is to prevent attacks on israel is it not working why is it further neccessary for israeli guns to pound lebanese villages why not just kill those who try to infiltrate the buffer zone you see there is more to the shelling of the villages it is called retaliation getting back getting even it doesn t make sense to shell the villages the least it shows is a reckless disregard by the israeli government for the lives of civilians please clarify your standards for rules of engagement as i understand it israelis are at all times and under all circumstances fair targets their opponents are legitimate targets only when mirandized or some such i m sure that this makes perfect sense if you grant a priori that israelis are the black hats and that therefore killing them is automatically a good thing go hezbollah the corollary is that the hezbollah are the white hats and that whatever they do is a good thing and the israelis only prove themselves to be bad guys by attacking them this sounds suspiciously like a hockey fan i know who cheers when one of the players on his team uses his stick to permanently rearrange an opponent s face and curses the ref for penalizing his side of course when it s different when the roles are reversed d c sessions speaking for myself note new network address dcs witsend tnet com author and everything else of tmail dos mail news shell
