well i actually read this somewhere else pver a week
ago. 
i think that isreal has been more restrained over the
years than they needed to be and think that at this
last attack accross the border they had had enough of
it. 

  no one has answered my supposition of what if it
were cuba firing rockets into south florida. so i'll
anser it myself. we'd be clamering for our government
to do something. 
  
   isreal is doing what any country would do if
attacked. they are defending themself by doing away
with the soource of the attacts. if lebenons
government had taken care of hezbolah themselves
isreal would not be attacking them. 

   this opinion is not a blog. it is based on watching
what has been happening to isreal for decades. now
they withdraw from gaza just to have missles fire into
iseral from gaza. they withdrew from south lebenon 6
years ago and the wonderful UN and lebenon were
supposed to see to it that hezbolah was disarmed. all
it got was rocket attacks from south lebenon. 

you people would be appalled if someone stepped on a
brown recluse spider after it bit them. 

--- Kendall David Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Ken,
> 
> Since I tend to not trust blog sites very much, I
> did a little deeper "digg"ing on the use of ball
> bearings in Katyusha rockets by Hezbollah, and came
> up with this, from Human Rights Watch.
> 
>
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/07/18/lebano13760.htm
> 
> I wasn't appalled only with Israel, but also with
> Hamas and Hezbollah.  I'm sure that articles similar
> to the one written about the impact on the Lebanese
> family could be written about Israeli families. 
> War, or terrorist acts, tend to injure people on all
> sides, either initially, or when retaliated against.
> 
> Here's a little more background on Hamas and
> Hezbollah (both from the Council on Foreign
> Relations), for background:
> 
> http://www.cfr.org/publication/8968/#1
> 
> http://www.cfr.org/publication/9155/
> 
> This has been an enlightening discussion.  
> 
> To "pull your chain" a little, here are a couple of
> sites on Isreal (sic).
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isreal
> 
> http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/Isreal.html
> 
> and one from The Weekly Standard:
> 
>
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/161yaihr.asp
> 
> (hope you can turn off the Albertson's flash ad!)
> 
> 
> Kendall 
> 
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
> 
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the
> world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on
> the unreasonable man.
> 
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ken barber [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 3:09 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [C-PALSY] Disability Rights (now
> mideast crisis?)
> 
> since everyone is so appalled with Isreal, here is
> an
> article you all need to read:
> 
>
http://digg.com/world_news/Hezbollah_s_Dangerous_Ball_Bearings
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- Kendall David Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> > This is an article about a student in my town, and
> > the impact the Israel/Lebanon situation has had on
> > him and his family.
> > 
> > Kendall 
> > 
> > An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> > redundant!)
> > 
> > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
> the
> > unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the
> > world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends
> on
> > the unreasonable man.
> > 
> > -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
> > 
> > 
> > Violence hits close for UW student
> > By JARED MILLER
> > Star-Tribune staff writer Thursday, July 27, 2006
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Richard Semaan, a Lebanese man studying at the
> > University of Wyoming in Laramie, is struggling to
> > keep tabs on family and friends displaced by the
> > bombinig in his home country. Photo by Jaren
> Miller,
> > Casper Star-Tribune.
> >  
> >  
> > LARAMIE -- Richard Semaan is a busy University of
> > Wyoming doctoral student, but these days he spends
> > most of his time watching TV and surfing the Web.
> > 
> > The 26-year-old Lebanese man carefully monitors
> > 24-hour news channels and scours Arabic and
> English
> > Web sites for any scraps of information about his
> > embattled country.
> > 
> > "If you have somebody in the line of fire, how
> > productive can you be?" said Semaan, who studies a
> > specialized engineering field called experimental
> > turbulence.
> > 
> > Semaan's parents and his older brother last week
> > fled the Beirut suburbs for the mountains after
> food
> > and water became scarce and a bomb exploded
> nearby.
> > They're betting Israel won't target the rural,
> > Christian area, he said.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > "Something must go terribly, terribly wrong to be
> > hit there," Semaan said.
> > 
> > Contact with his mother, a retired teacher, and
> his
> > father, a retired accountant, has been spotty
> since
> > the move. He said Israeli forces have attacked
> > communication towers, and the family's rented
> > apartment has no telephone service.
> > 
> > However, Semaan regularly discusses the war with
> > friends in Lebanon who say they feel helpless
> > against the bombardment. Semaan struggles with
> > conflicting emotions as he watches coverage of
> > Israeli warplanes pummeling his country.
> > 
> > "I can't tell you I wish I was there -- I'll be in
> > the line of danger," Semaan said. "But at the same
> > time, for some reason I'm wishing I was there."
> > 
> > Semaan is no stranger to war. He's too young to
> > remember the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, but
> > his family suffered major losses in the subsequent
> > civil wars that made Beirut a poster child for
> > Middle East violence in the 1990s.
> > 
> > "Our house got totally destroyed in that war,"
> > Semaan said. "It was burned to the ground, and we
> > virtually lost everything there, and we had to
> > rebuild.
> > 
> > "From that experience, I can relate to what's
> > happening now. It's a big tragedy."
> > 
> > Semaan was vacationing in Lebanon a day before
> > Hezbollah guerillas kidnapped two Israeli
> soldiers.
> > Within hours, Israeli forces unleashed a nearly
> > relentless assault on Lebanon that has killed
> > roughly 400 Lebanese, most of them civilians, and
> > displaced more than 500,000, according to wire
> > reports. Hezbollah continues to shell parts of
> > northern Israel in retaliation.
> > 
> > Semaan said Hezbollah made a strategic mistake by
> > snatching the soldiers, and now the Lebanese
> people
> > are being "collectively punished" for its actions.
> > The proof, he said, is the targets Israel is
> > choosing.
> > 
> > "Some of the targets are unexplainable," he said.
> > "They're hitting lighthouses, wheat silos, farms,
> > factories. What does that have to do with
> > Hezbollah?"
> > 
> > Israel, meanwhile, says Hezbollah fighters use
> > civilian areas to conceal their arsenal of
> missiles
> > and take human shields.
> > 
> > What's more demoralizing, Semaan said, is that
> > Lebanon had been undergoing massive rebuilding
> since
> > the end of the civil war in 2000 and was expecting
> a
> > strong tourist season.
> > 
> > "We just want to be in peace, and Lebanon has paid
> a
> > really, really heavy price for the conflicts in
> the
> 
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