you really don't get to complain about casualties when your leadership deliberately embeds themselves among civilians to inflate casualties and deter attack.
dude come on that's utter BS, and you know it... Hasbara at its best. First of all you bring war to out cities where do you expect people to fight you then? second, have you heard about guerrilla warfare? you expect someone who is hopelessly outnumbered and out gunned to meet you on an open battlefield?
if israel saw the arabs as inferior, it wouldn't spend months picking and choosing targets that will incur the least amount of collateral damage. warning hezbollah/hamas before attack, dropping leaflets, phoning homes, and then building hospitals for wounded enemy civilians.
Well, the idea is great, but we saw how useless it was in Gaza and Lebanon where the civilian casualties reached some 80%
Especially Gaza, were people had no where to go as there was bombing everywhere and hence we saw people who fled their home only to be bombed again somewhere else
tell me, when hamas and hezbollah rocket israel did they phone the homes of civilians warning them of attack?
Hamas and Hezbollah are already labeled as terrorists, why do you suddenly expect much from them? not to talk about they are not a state that has to abide by international law, and certainly do not hold the technological capabilities to do such a thing.
The israeli society can't really be defined as civilians though as the greater majority are either active or army reserves.
who are iran's allies? syria? what is their military reach? hezbollah?
Militarily Syria and various groupings under direct and indirect control. Don't underestimate them, you barely managed to hold ground against one of these groups.
i think iran would make sure to keep its war with israel and israel only. if it were to turn against america targets in iraq or hit american navy in the gulf, iran would be finished and the US people would support it.
Absolutely correct. But in case the americans chose to play ball things would be different. The americans would play this game discrete as anything else is only counterproductive for it and its middle eastern allies.
the mullahs are crazy but not stupid.
what? brink of collaspe? you clearly know nothing about US economy. it's the powerful on the face of the earth.
hehe, excuse me sir, I am a business and economics major, so at least I must know something or my 5 years in university was a waste of time. Second, have you been sleeping? you do know that the world is facing the worst recession ever right? and that the US banking system was days from collapse? and that days ago Greece along other European countries were less than 10 days from complete bankruptcy and that we still might experience the collapse of either the Dollar or Euro. You do know that the US owes more money than it is worth? They currently in total owe roughly $37 Trillion!! rising to $78.8 trillion when you include the social security and Medicaid future obligations! The annual GDP of the US is roughly $14 trillion.
I am not going into macroeconomic calculations, but if you understand economy you would know that it looks rather grim!
U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time
it's annual economic output is greater than all 50 muslim states combined.
Yes? muslim countries suck and your point is?
hamas and hezbollah gives everyone a headache, but a couple thousands JDAMs and the headache goes away, real fast.
I think Israel gives more headache than the two combined, so we might try your solution then.
Do you honestly believe be removing Hamas and Hezbollah everything would be all swell? the root of the problem is Israel. Both of these groups emerged as a direct consequence of the Israeli occupation, you would know that if you read a bit more about it. As long as Israel is the way it is, more of these groups would pop up.
or did you forget about 2006 when lebanon lost...what, 2,500KIA? against 150 israelis?
Actually it was a stalemate, but since you guys had objectives which none were ever reached, and you had way more soldiers and equipment on the ground with complete air and sea superiority
I would say that you guys lost. For each militant on the ground you had 5-10 soldiers backed up with armor and jets.
The casualties:
The lebanese casualties were as follows;
1,191 Lebanese civilians
53 Foreign civilians
5 UN employees
250 (Hezbollah est.) 500 Hezbollah (UN officials' est.) mean 375
Amal militia: 17 dead
LCP militia: 12 dead
PFLP-GC militia: 2 dead
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp: ~6-9
Lebanese Army: 28 dead
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total 1691
76% civilians
24% militants
Israeli casualties:
121 soldiers
44 Israeli civilians
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total 165
36% civilians
64% army
and israel wasn't even aiming for lebanon then. it targeted shia areas exclusively.
not true, as far north as Nahr el Bared refugee camp and Tripoli were hit. Saida/Sidon and bridges in Jouneh and the damascus freeway were hit. So it wasn't shia areas exclusively
i think a war against lebanon would be unfair. lebanese people by a wide margin support hezbollah less than the general muslim world.
Hezbollah and their allies, with their voters comprise roughly half of the Lebanese people.
it would be far more appropriate to simply take the war to syria since they are the puppet masters anyway.
I am not a big fan of the Syrian leadership so do that if you want, but realistically it is not a walk in the park I do think they have their preparations.
