Just a quick note before I run out to a meeting...
1. Hasan Nasrallah, the head of the Hezbollah, has stated on TV that their kidnapping of the two soldiers had been planned for 5 months and was done IOT gain the release of thousands of captured "soldiers"
2. Benjamin Netanyahu is dead on. Would you be willing to go on TV and ask Israel to keep on coming until such time as the Hezbollah have been decimated? I wouldn't because that would be tantamount to asking to be killed.
3. There is no telling why suddenly both the Hamas and the Hezbollah have decided to act. Neither of their actions get them any points in any court of opinion and, worse of all, there is a quiet undertone of disbelief that they would do something this stupid.
4. Israel is actually getting points for showing some restraint although they still come in for condemnation by the very vocal and anti Israel press.
All in all, this is a sad state of affairs, made worse by the incalcitrant behaviour of the so called soldiers.
One point to ponder...when (if) they show shots of the Lebanese amassing trying to cross the border, look for all the single men who are also seeking to cross and ask yourself the following questions:
a) Where are their families? Their girlfriends?
b) Why are some of them so clean shaven?
c) What is that band of "white skin" around the edge of their face?
Can you say deserter? Is Syria the new Canada (home of the draft dodger in Vietnam, not meant to be anything bad).
Food for thought,
Steven
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