Fake war
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- magma0
The real issue here is semantics... It's not really what anyone party does - cause both sides do the same shit - what really matters is what it's called. Hezbollah calls themselves freedom fighters & they have a right to struggle against their oppressor at any cost... etc etc... but to the Israeli's their terrorists, because Israel is the target of thier struggle. On the other hand Israel calls it's war a war against terror, and for freedom because they also have the right to defend themselves, but, of course to the other side their baby killers & bloodthirsty animals.
There will NEVER EVER be peace untill either side stops the stupid name-calling (if I hear someone say "terrorist" one more time my head is gunna explode). As long as we keep calling them "terrorists" we dehuminize them, which conveniently gives us license to kill them with impunity - the same license that they afford themselves while thinking of us.
The solution is to acknowledge their agenda as ligitimate if we have any hope of them acknowledging our own agenda. Once both sides acknowledge each other then a compromise can be reached. Our present policy of "we are righteous and anyone who disagrees is evil" might have worked 50 years ago, but not today - it's only hurting us...
And all you crazy right wing nuts who claim to love this country so much are doing so much damage - you don't realize it now, but you will later.
That's the real sad part.and that's my 2c.