But once again, it matters not who is ultimately to blame. Both parties share the responsibilities for the wrongs.

Didn’t this entire Hizbullah - Israel fiasco start becasue Hisbullah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers in Lebanon? Hmmm! What were Israeli soldiers doing in another country? Maybe if Israel really wants peace (which I doubt), they would keep their soldiers out of other countries.

It’s not uncommon for people outside the neighbourhood to get it upside down.

Hezbollah have devoted six years to digging in and provisioning hundreds of bunkers, an astonishing arsenal of missiles, and state-of-the-art killing equipment, all of this in the midst (but literally) of Lebanese villages. On 12th July, they lit the fuse by raiding Israel and kidnapping Israeli soldiers on routine guard duty. The timing was Hizbollah’s, and the outcome was precisely the one they wanted. Nasrullah, the maestro who has presided so effectively over the dismantlement of his native Lebanon, said on that day that the abductions of the Israelis from Israel were “our natural, only and logical right.”

So it’s all about rights, and nothing to do with deep millenial hatred. What a relief.

I am not sure I would buy into such an excuse if I was the innocent bystandard on the receiving end of Israel’s military campaign (regardless of the intentionality).

I know that Hezbollah is guilty of many atrocities and injustices and I am not trying to defend them, but Israel is guilty of wrong too.

Politicians and Religous experts can argue back and forth who is to blame for the constant violence in the middle east. But in the end it is like two boys fighting, you only can see each boy striking the other with their fist and suddenly you know longer care about who started what and who provoked who. In the end the only thing you see is wrong being carried out by both. And as we all know, two wrongs never make things right.

Israel did not go to war because its borders had been violated. It did not send its planes over southern Lebanon for the pleasure of punishing a country that permitted Hezbollah to construct its state-within-a-state. It reacted with such vigor because the Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s call for Israel to be wiped off the map and his drive for a nuclear weapon came simultaneously with the provocations of Hamas and Hezbollah. The conjunction, for the first time, of a clearly annihilating will with the weapons to go with it created a new situation.

Hmmm! What were Israeli soldiers doing in another country? Maybe if Israel really wants peace (which I doubt), they would keep their soldiers out of other countries.

Any ways, it is good to see you back writing AND you are right, as Christians we should never delight in death.