Sure they had a hard time getting hezbollah and they were punishing the whole Lebanese people. That's because they can and will do it again. I never said it was fair. Do I like Israel? Personally I don't have a problem with Israel Though I am sick and tired of paying for their stuff. As far as hezbollah I consider them pretty good soldiers and well adapted at infantry tactics. Do I like what Israel does? Not really but just look at how the other middle east people are killing and you see that Israel has to be ruthless to live in such neighborhood. I don't condone destroying a nation's infrastructure and killing civilians, that means Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Libya or Israel for that matter. Unfortunately war is war and might is more respected than right. Look at Yemen, nobody really says a thing about saudi killing civilians, nobody even talks about reason why Houthis started their uprising years ago. Do you see any of the ones supporting the Saudi war even say anything about how those ZaidI houties were discriminated against? Back in 2009 the Saudi Airforce killed thousands of Houthis in S'aada but nobody said anything either. That's because might is more than right and unfortunately it will stay like this.
@VEVAK, I think we are doing math differently. I do my math with 20 years of military experience, not sure what kind of math you are doing!
I'm sorry is your so called claims of "20 Years of Military Service" spouse to somehow trump LOGIC & FACT? It doesn't matter how many years of military service you do or do not have! At the end of the day regardless of your Military Service PIG Don't have wings & they can NOT fly!
Do you know what would have been a draw? If Israel had managed to stop Hezbullah rockets before it's withdraw that would have been a draw! BUT the IDF retreated as the rockets were still raining! Utter defeat!
I believe Israel has every right to exist, I believe Israel has the right to be a Jewish state if it's ppl wish it so! But at the end of the day the Israeli's have to make a decision! What do they want??? If they want everyone in that territory to live under the flag of Israel, that's fine but you either have to give the Palestinians the right to vote or stop calling yourself a democracy!!!!!! OR You accept a 2 state solution.
As for Iran's part in it I believe Iran needs to have diplomatic relations with every country including Israel & the U.S.! It doesn't mean you have to be friends with them.... And the policy of not accepting Israel as a state may have made sense 50 years ago but it just doesn't make any sense today!
But all this doesn't change the fact that the Israeli's lost in 2006! Does that mean Hezbullah militarily is stronger than Israel? NO Clearly NOT! It just means the Israeli conventional Military is NOT strong enough to carry out a successful & easy invasion of Lebanon & if they invade Lebanon they will be in a nonstop war for over a decade! much like in Syria ISIS, FSA, Ansarallh... all of them combined are not as powerful as the Syrian Army & yet it has taken the Syrian Military, Russian Air Force & Iran YEARS to clear out a single city & the Syrian Military is fighting in it's own territory!
And that's reality! The Israeli Military just doesn't have the power to invade and secure Lebanon & it took the Israeli only 30 days for reality to sink in!
As for the Saudi's, the Saudi Military has NO POWER! It has a strong but fully dependent Air Force!
Also, the media coverage of Yemen has nothing to do with the Saudi's Political Power! It is beneficial for the "U.S. Military Industrial Complex" to keep the Saudi's actively in an endless war because the more bombs they drop & the more sorties they fly the more money the U.S. makes!! I promise you if the Saudi's were using Russian or Chinese weapons the western media outlets of the world would have been screaming Bloody Murder!!!
This is NOT Saudi power! This is the power of the U.S. Military Industrial complex & their control over the western media!
It is beneficial for the U.S. military industrial complex to have a boggy man in the middle east that means the U.S. stays there that's billions from the U.S. Military in weapons, parts,... and on top of that you make over $100 Billion USD a year in new arm sales to the GCC states the British are doing it as well the British Prime Minister is nothing more than a weapons dealer!
Any country whos military is dependent on weapons & maintenance from another country HAS NO REAL power they only hold perception of power & it only works against those who don't know any better!
