Lebanon forms unity government with Hezbollah

Lebanon ended weeks of wrangling on Friday and formed a unity government in which Hezbollah and its allies hold effective veto power, as agreed under a deal that ended a paralyzing political conflict in the ...

[Israel1948]

Now lebanon will collapse.

[Michael Ejercito]

Israel can consider all of Lebanon as fair game for air strikes.

[daniel sagherian]

Israel1948 wrote:

Now lebanon will collapse.

Yet again Christians could avoid a take-over by Sunni fundamentalism...

[daniel sagherian]

Michael Ejercito wrote:

Israel can consider all of Lebanon as fair game for air strikes.

In fact, for now, Israel got one less Sunni fundamentalist neighbor...
Only time will tell how necessary is for Israel not to have Sunni fundamentalists bordering its north...

[Stanley Engel]

This is nonsense propaganda. Hezbollah is the true government in Lebanon and that was proved back in May. For those with long memories, recall that the Lebanese official government was unable to fire the Beirut Airport security chief or to dismantle the Hezbollah comunnications grid. Hezbollah has a bigger army than the Lebanese Armed Forces which is itself two-thirds Shiite.

The so-called unity government is composed of Hezbollah approved stooges. If I'm wrong, look for a collapse similar to the Palestinian Hamas-Fatah unity government last year.

[Israel1948]

Stanley Engel wrote:

This is nonsense propaganda. Hezbollah is the true government in Lebanon and that was proved back in May. For those with long memories, recall that the Lebanese official government was unable to fire the Beirut Airport security chief or to dismantle the Hezbollah comunnications grid. Hezbollah has a bigger army than the Lebanese Armed Forces which is itself two-thirds Shiite.
The so-called unity government is composed of Hezbollah approved stooges. If I'm wrong, look for a collapse similar to the Palestinian Hamas-Fatah unity government last year.

Really? hezbollah is a true government? Tell me one country that has a terrorist group as its government and it prospers? Don't say hamas. hamas doesn't give a crap about its people. As you can see with this video, taken right after hamas took control of gaza, that the people of gaza HATE hamas. hamas doesn't feed, pay or care about the people in gaza.

http://www.tv-links.cc/redir4.php...

[greg_allen]

Israel1948 wrote:

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Really? hezbollah is a true government? Tell me one country that has a terrorist group as its government and it prospers? Don't say hamas. hamas doesn't give a crap about its people. As you can see with this video, taken right after hamas took control of gaza, that the people of gaza HATE hamas. hamas doesn't feed, pay or care about the people in gaza.
http://www.tv-links.cc/redir4.php...

within the proper definitions of terrorism, one could easily call the israeli govt. a terrorist organization. the main difference being that the US supports this particular group in policy and financial aid.

[Stanley Engel]

greg_allen wrote:

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within the proper definitions of terrorism, one could easily call the israeli govt. a terrorist organization. the main difference being that the US supports this particular group in policy and financial aid.

Well, within the proper definition of terrorism, we could easily call any government terrorist. After all, the threat - or terror - of imprisonment is what stops crime.

But by any rational definition Israel is not terrorist. The Arabs kill any Jew they can reach. The Israelis kill snipers, suicide bombers and occasionally somebody who is supposed to be an innocent civilian. Israeli arabs know they're safe from any imaginary IDF terror. So do the Gazans.

But of course you knew all this and, having nothing to say about the Lebanese unity government, you start talking in diversionary silliness.

[Israel1948]

greg_allen wrote:

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within the proper definitions of terrorism, one could easily call the israeli govt. a terrorist organization. the main difference being that the US supports this particular group in policy and financial aid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_...

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is considered terrorism.

[Israel1948]

greg_allen wrote:

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within the proper definitions of terrorism, one could easily call the israeli govt. a terrorist organization. the main difference being that the US supports this particular group in policy and financial aid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_s...

The United States itself considered a State of Terrorism.