Dead or alive, every human holds the same moral worth.  It would do well for Jews, Muslims and Christians to start practicing the more humane aspects of their faiths.  A dead Jew is worth a dead Muslim is worth a dead Christian.  These three living, though, could work to better all of humanity if each would only see his own frailities and fear of otherness. 

Jews need to learn to improve their human relations with other humans not of their faith.  Muslims need to quit trying to wipe Israel off the face of the world map.  And, Christians need to better love their enemies.  Until such changes take place, we will be locked in the vicious cycle of inhumane violence.  To all, learn to be different from what your impulses and prejudice tell you to be.

The biggest decision none of us ever made was where and by whom we were brought to this worldly planet.  The biggest decision all of us can make during our lifetimes is to work for peace.  To effect peace we need to continually work toward a narrative of peace.  What we are witnessing is a narrative of war and violence that has led humans to define each other in less than humane terms. 

The War on Drugs has failed.  The War on Terrorism is failing.  These two efforts are doomed exactly because they rely on narratives of war instead of narratives of compassionate treatment and diplomatic persuasion, respectively. War is not the end all!  If it were, I suspect our world would end up very much like the future envisioned by Eric Blair in 1948.

Oh, and one final thought: if President Bush’s war on our constitution succeeds, the narrative of war will be with us in perpetuity. -Kevo

This situation is just another example of the failure of the UN and the politicians of the worlds’ fear of standing up to Israel and her sponsor, the USA.
The UN has said they are ‘disappointed in the response from other nations for their contribution to peace-keeping efforts’ It took the UN 34 days to respond to the conflict itself!! In the meantime, almost 2500 (or so we are told) victims lay dead. The UN has consistently failed to act in times of war. And by that I mean that nations of the world will all stop short of condemning Israel and the USA for their bullying and harrassment. Get your fingers out or we will be seeing a much bigger war.

Israel cannot play the hand of the victim anymore although I agree that Lebanon has to do more to control Hizbollah. It took us decades to stand up and say ‘no more’ to the IRA here in Ireland.

I have met some Lebanese people in my time and they definately dont want any more blood on the streets.

With regard to Collins comment. Every news story that you read hear or see is propoganda depending which side is telling it.

what’s amazing is that any country, especially france, is willing to send peacekeepers to serve within firing range of desperate zionists

look for israelis to dress up as hizbullah members & to pick off a few peacekeepers once in awhile so as to provoke the peacekeeping forces into attacking hizbullah

This was an accurate and complete report - LMAO

Congress:
STOP PROVIDING ISRAEL WITH WEAPONS.  The only reason Israel is able to destabilize the treaty is directly and proximately caused by the U.S. Congress, and this ridiculous leadership’s continual patronizing and providing anything to Israel that it claims it needs.  If Israel wants to userp territory then let them do it with sticks and stones.  Not with U.S. supplied state of the art munitions.  If Israel cannot live peaceably with its neighbors, well, then maybe it does not deserve to have its own nation.  It has no natural entitlement.

Israel has a right to defend itself but not the right to invade other lands and plunder.
  Isreal can not longer hid behind the poor little me when its a first world military power with atomic weapons that kill civic with no remorse and uses the excuse they were in the way.

  Hitler claimed the same excuse of right to defend the Germany people.

To Collin:

Hezbollah was attacked because they were arming themselves! Isn’t Israel arming itself all the time? Isn’ it armed to the teeth already? What Israel really wants is for all is neighbors to have stones, while they have nuclear weapons; so that they have a free hand to rob and pillage and murder every day; something they have done for over sixty years; when they descended on the middle east courtesy the treacherous British colonial power.
I am afraid the Palestinians goose is cooked for a long time as long as the road to the White House runs through Tel Aviv and the entire Congress of the United States, not forgetting all the expected Presidential candiadates remain at the beck and call of Israel.

Anyone who has a memory span lasting longer than twenty minutes must recall that Israel has never honored any peace agreement until they achieved their objective.

Their ultimate objective is to seize control of the middle east, including land and natural resources.

That is also the objective of the lawless authoritarian regime presently ruling the United States.

Neither is concerned with the danger of inciting World War III. They have the nukes and by God, they intend to use them.

The rest of us slobs can only hope things don’t turn out even more disastrously than they have in Iraq. Or, we could depose George Bush, members of his regime and all Republican congressmen.

So Israel is the bad guy now because they’re apparently violating the cease fire?  Does it matter at all what Hezbollah is doing?  Why do we not read of their actions?

Accurate and complete reporting might gain some respect.

Collin

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