Hey Shingo, Hezbollah fights like all cowards, hoodlums, thugs, scalywags, goons, strong-armers, fanatics, combatants, militants, radicals, extremists, fundamentalists, militant Islamics, zealots, and pretty much a bunch of hell lovers with harassment, threats of violence, intimidation, and hindering free speech. When Israel finally turns Iran & Syria into a radioactive parking lot, Hezbollah will be wondering were their God is.

“I doubt they could last against a similarily equipped group of Marines.”

They couldn’t even hold their own against Hezbollah, who sent them packing.

Jail ordeal of hundreds of Palestinian children arrested for throwing stones

03.14.2010 | The Guardian

“Rights groups express concern at the rising number of juveniles as young as 12 who are held behind bars and ‘treated like terrorists’

With more than 300 Palestinian children being held in Israeli prisons, human rights groups and Palestinian officials are increasingly concerned about the actions of the Israeli military.

The Israeli group B’Tselem said that security forces had “severely violated” the rights of a number of children, aged between 12 and 15, who had been taken into custody in recent months.

The family of one 13-year-old boy from Hebron who was arrested on 27 February by a military patrol and detained for eight days have brought a legal case against the authorities. The teenager, Al-Hasan Muhtaseb, described how he had been interrogated without a lawyer late into the night, forced to confess to throwing stones, made to sign a confession in Hebrew that he couldn’t read, jailed with adults and brought before a military court. He was only released on bail eight days later, after considerable legal effort by several human rights groups. As he had signed a confession, he still faces a possible indictment for throwing stones – a charge that usually brings several months in jail but carries a maximum penalty of 20 years’ jail.

Although most international attention focuses on diplomatic sparring in the Middle East, it is cases such as this teenager’s arrest that are the reality for Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation. The surprise about the teenager’s experience is not that it is exceptional, but that it is a common occurrence.

As of the end of February, 343 Palestinian children were being held in Israeli prisons, according to Defence for Children International (DCI), which took up the Muhtaseb case. Israel routinely prosecutes Palestinian children as young as 12 and the Israeli legal system treats Palestinians as adults when they turn 16, but Israelis become adults only at 18. Ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children are “widespread, systematic and institutionalised”, DCI said in a report last year.

Al-Hasan Muhtaseb was arrested early in the afternoon as he and his 10-year-old brother Amir were walking home through Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, after visiting their aunt.

“Two soldiers came to us and told us: ‘Come over here.’ We went to them,” said Al-Hasan, a slight boy, neatly dressed, who barely looks his 13 years. “They took my brother and I don’t know where they took him. I was sent inside the station and I never saw him after that.”

They were detained separately. Amir was released later that night, deeply traumatised. “He was in a very, very bad psychological state,” said his father, Fadel Muhtaseb, 45. “He had wet himself. He was terrified.” The boy said he had been held with his eyes covered by a hat in a room where there was also a dog, which he could hear panting.

Al-Hasan was interrogated at an Israeli military post in Kiryat Arba, a Jewish settlement in Hebron. “I was asked: ‘Did you throw stones? Did you hurt the soldiers or hit their vehicles? How close were you to the soldiers? Why were you throwing stones?’,” he said. Eventually he had admitted throwing stones, although in an interview last week Al-Hasan said it was untrue: on that day he had not thrown stones, although earlier in the week he had.”

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http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/packed-manhattan-banquet-honors-extraordinary-courage-under-fire-of-idf-soldiers/

The Israelis can only do this by threatening overwhelming military force against a poorly armed minority. 

Their savagery against unarmed civilians is well known.  I doubt they could last against a similarily equipped group of Marines.

Harry Truman known as a great supporter of a Jewish state noted in his diaries
that:-

   
  Jews as “very, very selfish”.

“They [the Jews] care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles,
Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as D[isplaced] P[ersons] as
long as they get special treatment,” he wrote in 1947.

“Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political, neither Hitler nor
Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the underdog.

Now if we all can create a world without underdogs.

Say what you will about the Jews, they certainly paid attention during the Holocost. They now run the (second) best concentration camp in the world.(We americans are still the best, of course).

I realize this is going to sound insensitive and offensive to a lot of people, but I’ve stopped caring about what happens to those people in the Middle East.  I know there are a bunch of innocent victims out there, but I no longer care.  Israeli or Palestinian, they are just two tribes doing the tribal nasty to each other.  They’ve been at it so long that all claims to any moral superiority have soured.  The only thing I want now out of the Middle East is for the West to stay well away from their savagery.