for how long should Israel permit a terrorist group to fire rockets into it from a bordering country, and permit that country to foster the terrorist group?
how long would, say, Australia stand it, if the rockets came from Indonesia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Israel-Lebanon_conflict
"Beginning of conflict
Main article: Zar'it-Shtula incident
At 9:05 AM local time [28] (06:05 UTC), on 12 July 2006, Hezbollah initiated a diversionary Katyusha rocket and mortar attack on Israeli military positions and border villages.[29] At the same time, a ground contingent of Hezbollah crossed the border into Israeli territory and attacked two Israeli armoured Humvees patrolling on the Israeli side of the Israel-Lebanon border, near the village of Zar'it, capturing two Israeli soldiers and killing three.[29] Five others were killed later on the Lebanese side of the border during a mission to rescue the two captured soldiers.[30] The UN, the EU, the G8, the US, and prominent news agencies,[31] including Al Jazeera,[32] have characterized the Hezbollah action as "cross-border", although in initial reports, the Lebanese police, and later Hezbollah, stated that the Israeli soldiers were captured on the Lebanese side of the border "during a mission to infiltrate the town of Ayta ash-Shab".[33] In an interview with The Times on 2 August, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said: “The war started not only by killing eight Israeli soldiers and abducting two, but by shooting Katyusha and other rockets on the northern cities of Israel on that same morning. Indiscriminately.”[34]
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Israel-Lebanon conflict
See also: 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict#More background
The history of conflict between the two countries began with the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. After the 1967 Six Day War, and following the Black September in Jordan, over 110,000 Palestinian refugees migrated to Lebanon, making up, with their descendants, over 400,000 people today.[127] By 1975, they numbered more than 300,000, creating an informal state-within-a-state in South Lebanon. The PLO became a powerful force and played an important role in the Lebanese Civil War. In response to numerous attacks launched from southern Lebanon, Israel invaded in 1978 in an attempt to rout out Palestinian militants. As a result the United Nations passed UN Resolutions 425 and 426, which called for the immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces and an end to military action in Lebanon.[128]
At the end of the operation, Israeli forces withdrew from Lebanon, leaving behind a UNIFIL force. Israel invaded again four years later in 1982, forcing PLO forces out of Lebanon (mostly to Tunisia), and Israel occupied the southern part of the country. A US brokered peace treaty was ratified by the Lebanese parliament in 1983, but President Amine Gemayel decided against signing in 1984. In 1985, Israel withdrew its forces from parts of Lebanon and remained in a 4–6 kilometre (2.5–3.75 mi) deep[129] strip of southern Lebanon, described by Israel as a "security zone" which it justified as a protective measure to defend its northern towns against Hezbollah attacks. This occupation lasted until 2000. On 24 May 2000 Israel withdrew its troops from southern Lebanon.
The South Lebanon Army's equipment and positions in South Lebanon largely fell into the hands of Hezbollah, which has put considerable effort into fortifying the former security zone and establishing new firing positions. Since then, Hezbollah has repeatedly attacked Israeli military positions, whilst Israel has carried out numerous attacks aimed at striking Hezbollah bases (see Hezbollah activities).[130]
On September 2, 2004, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1559 calling for the disbanding of all Lebanese militias, among other things, and an armed Hezbollah in South Lebanon is seen by many to be a contravention of the resolution. The Lebanese government differs from this interpretation, and the United Nations has not ruled on this matter.[131][132]
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May 2006 ceasefire
The July–August conflict breached a ceasefire between the sides which had lasted approximately six weeks.
On May 26, 2006, a car bomb in southern Lebanon killed Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Mahmoud Majzoub, and his brother Nidal. Lebanon's Prime Minister Fuad Saniora declared Israel the primary suspect. Israel denied involvement.[133]
Early in the morning of May 28, 2006, a barrage of rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel. Hours later, Israel responded by bombing suspected militant targets inside Lebanon, and exchanging fire across the border. Before the end of the day, the UN negotiated a ceasefire.[134]
In mid-June, Lebanese authorities arrested members an alleged Israeli spy ring working inside their borders. Mahmoud Rafeh, a retired policeman from Hasbaya, reportedly confessed to the killings and admitted working for Mossad since 1994. Bomb-making materials, code machines and other espionage equipment were found in his home. Lebanese opponents of Hezbollah suspected that the discovery of the Israeli network was a Hezbollah fabrication.[135]"
Originally posted by ivanhoeGood one, I've seen some footage from it already, and one in
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...... or ... How We Are Being Deceived by Israel's Enemies in Willful Collaboration with Main Stream Media (MSM):
"Pallywood"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_B1H-1opys
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response to the lies told about Jenin, as well as many others.
It is surprising and sad, however, how the defective and biased
media coverage ends up putting the Israelis as the evil ones...
when Israel has demonstrated once and again it favors progress
in every field: Arts, science, society, etc.
Of course mistakes and flaws exist in Israel , as in all countries, but
it is clear that the fruits of the country and its people speak a lot
about the kind of society they have.
I only wish people would criticize Israel without the passionate bias
that their favorite Israel-bashing media provides.
way to go, ivanhoe
Originally posted by AThousandYoungOn the contrary many take Israel's side not because they are Christians, let alone zealots, but because they see Israel as an outpost of Western civilisation surrounded by backward Islamic nations who pose a threat to world peace.
How come the only people to take Israel's side on this site are Christian zealots?
http://drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com/2006/08/bbc-and-hezbollah.html#links
"CNN senior international correspondent Nic Robertson admitted that his anti-Israel report from Beirut on July 18 about civilian casualties in Lebanon was stage-managed from start to finish by Hezbollah. He revealed that his story was heavily influenced by Hezbollah’s "press officer" and that Hezbollah have "very, very sophisticated and slick media operations."
When pressed a few days later about his reporting on the CNN program Reliable Sources, Robertson acknowledged that Hezbollah militants had instructed the CNN camera team where and what to film. Hezbollah "had control of the situation," Robertson said. "They designated the places that we went to, and we certainly didn’t have time to go into the houses or lift up the rubble to see what was underneath."
Robertson added that Hezbollah has "very, very good control over its areas in the south of Beirut. They deny journalists access into those areas. You don’t get in there without their permission. We didn’t have enough time to see if perhaps there was somebody there who was, you know, a taxi driver by day, and a Hezbollah fighter by night."
http://drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com/2006/08/orla-guerin-busted.html
"Robertson is not the only foreign journalist to have misled viewers with selected footage from Beirut. NBC’s Richard Engel, CBS’s Elizabeth Palmer, and a host of European and other networks, were also taken around the damaged areas by Hezbollah minders. Palmer commented on her report that "Hizbullah is also determined that outsiders will only see what it wants them to see.""