I say, the best way to solve the problem of the Middle East is by US govt and Israel getting out of their land!! If America loves Israel so much and pretty much our entire govt is run by them..why don't you just give them one of the states..and be done with it.. no more safety concern for Israelis..and no more bloodshed to be blamed on from your side. There'd be peace in the Middle East..let the Muslims fight it out and let them deal with their own internal problems.. But of course..that's not the purpose of our good ole USA govt, we want to be there strategically..not bc Israel is sacred to the Zionist Jews or Christians..if it was..there religion would teach them to not cause holocaust of Palestinians in the hold land. And the practicing Jews claim....there isn't supposed to be a Jewish State until the return of their Messiah..it's illegal to occupy that land.. so exactly why are the European Jews put in Israel against the rights of ppl who existed there and stolen from them and then we support a regime who's treating them just like Hitler did to their ancestory.. So, b4 you show me anymore movies and stories of Holocaust..don't b hypocrites..and continue to support the killings of another race the same. What hypocricy..our govt has sold its soul to the highest bidder...the Zionism.. the devil form within.. all for power, greed and money..isn't that how most of them get elected..AIPAC..without them..they won't even get elected.. SELL OUTS !!!
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Hamas, which appears to be emulating the Hizbullah strategy, will find the results hard to replicate. Gaza is 25 miles long and 7.5 miles wide, with all its borders and airspace controlled by Israel or the hostile government of Egypt. It has no strategic depth at all. Hamas's rockets are fewer and for the most part less powerful than those of Hizbullah, and the Israelis have much better intelligence, training and tactics for this fight than they had in 2006. But, then, the politics of defiance do not depend on military success.
Two and a half years ago, Hizbullah and Hamas were coordinating their operations against Israel, north and south. This time around, according to my friends in Beirut, Hizbullah is hanging back because it's looking for the bigger electoral prize to come in June and doesn't want to be distracted. In the meantime it can propagandize about the suffering of the Palestinians in Gaza as a reminder of its own past "victories" against Israel in Lebanon.
So, again, what will the Obama administration say and, more importantly, what will it do if Hizbullah and its pro-Syrian, pro-Iranian allies can name Lebanon's next prime minister? It's not clear that Obama's team has given this looming crisis any thought. Indeed, the incipient administration remains silent even about the fight in Gaza. But in Paris recently I talked with Saad Hariri, who is the leader of the current majority in Lebanon's Parliament, and I caught a hint of that rare thing, a faint—very faint—suggestion of hope.
Sure, Hariri says he would like to see Obama "forcing peace on everyone," including the Israelis. And, yes, Obama can bring to bear prestige and credibility in the region that no American president has had for many years. But it won't be Obama who stands up to Hizbullah in Lebanon's elections, it will have to be Hariri and his allies who are united in opposition to Syrian and Iranian domination of their country's politics.
That is, as we know, a very dangerous position to take. Saad's father, former prime minister Rafiq Hariri, was blown up on the Beirut waterfront in February 2005 for taking just such a stand. Several others who allied themselves to his cause have been murdered since, and Saad himself has spent a great deal of time out of the country, which has not helped his political credibility. But when I saw him just after he had talked to French President Nicolas Sarkozy last week, Saad insisted that in the upcoming campaign he will be on the ground in Lebanon and in every corner of the nation, despite the obvious risks. "If anything happens, then the world will know that Syria has committed another crime," said Hariri.
We will see whether such brave talk will translate into a brave performance, and, if it does, to be brutally frank about a brutal situation, whether Saad Hariri will be able to survive. But if he and his supporters have the guts to defy the defiant, to resist the resistance, and defeat Hizbullah at the polls, then they may yet rescue not only Lebanon's independence, they may bolster the thin and dwindling aspirations for truly peaceful democracy in the Middle East.
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